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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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02-23-2010, 01:47 PM
lister
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You're right. And I am thankful that he does take the time to write back. It's flattering, and I get excited everytime I get an email from Larry Hama. So I don't mean to be rude or dismissive about Mr. Hama's correspondence, but it just feels like I'm being dismissed.
I guess, here's what I would have liked (at a minimum):
It took Mr. Hama until the next day to provide an answer.
It would have taken a total of 15 minutes for him to go to Yojoe.com and read the relevant filecards if he needed a refresher.
And then, with no contrary evidence in play, he could have just made something up/shot from the him... just like he wrote his stories.
He could have been like, "Yeah, I always thought of Flint as a Princeton Grad." or "Oh, Flint went to KU on a baseball scholarship." Anything would have done. And we would have said, "Well, Larry said this, _____, so that's the answer we've been waiting on." And that would have been great.
The same for Falcon. He could have said anything: "Oh, yeah he's supposed to be an OCS grad." or "Actually, his dad was a West Point Officer and he went to West Point too." He could literaly have made it up, and that would have been fine, and it wouldn't have taken much more time than it took to type the answer he gave me. And so it just seems like a brush off, and a way of not encouraging future questions.
I don't know. I guess I'd prefer a well-thought-out theory about a character, either from myself or one of you guys, rather than one made up on the spot, even if it is from Hama. In other words, I don't consider Hama simply saying "um yeah, West Point sounds good for Falcon" off the top of his head really any more valid than you or I or any of us coming up with our own stuff.
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