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1. about 8 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   I could footnote the heck out of non-fiction, but for fiction it’s better writing to include all necessary information in the narrative in a natural way.

2. about 12 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   He puts the Eric back in esoteric.

   The problem is that he focuses on the esoteric to the detriment of coherency in the core plot.

3. about 12 hours ago on Dick Tracy

   I wonder whether Eric actually thought that all out. I thin it’s supposed to be good enough to suggest that he’s into electronic countermeasures and that’s enough to explain whatever electronic magic is supposed to have happened.

   I mean, in Eric’s defense, we have accepted 1950s style space coupes as a thing, though this doesn’t read like it’s supposed to be science fiction.

4. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   No, but I did. 8-0

5. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   So, what are you trying to say?

6. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   “Coming off…” Not sure that’s coming off the way you intended? My mind totally added “in the” after that.

7. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   That issue required that there have been an original point.

   I’m with Caerin. Great summary of the past several weeks of… whatever we’ve had here.

   Yes, there has been no original point to forget. What did the gate-hopping have to do with anything? Why was Strogie killed? What was his connection to the Totens? Why did Junior risk killing him in the TA bathroom? Why not get him out and kill him outside of the public eye? What’s the significance of him being some kind of a terrorist? Why is Tracy ignoring the data he has so far and asking for more without doing much else about it? How does Sam have a gut-feeling about someone who’s connection is a couple of generations removed from Nazi Germany? Is the clock tower incidental or is there some significance to it? What’s going on in the clock tower? Why was the clock tower chosen? What is the Toten’s core motive? Is it ideological (Nazis – racism or eugenics?)? Is it greed (they have some kind of expected financial gain)? Is it power-mongering? Is it protective of something? Or is it some kind of detached evil (psychopathic) that just gets off doing bad things to people?

   Maybe some of these have answers that will be revealed. However, the fact that such questions exist begs the question as to whether the story is just that shallow or whether such things that might lend some substance to the story have been ignored in favor of the perception of artsy writing. If you want a mystery, focus the mystery on the truly mysterious part. Don’t make the whole blooming thing mysterious or it won’t make sense. You have to have substance within which to place the hole that comprises the mystery, and that substance should be compelling and relevant to the mystery. Is this not obvious?

8. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   It’s the Two Fox Plaza branding.

9. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   I hope this arc doesn’t last until June just to peak on D-Day. We could count on almost nothing happening for the next 5-6 months.

10. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    The worst has happened. The story is now in reverse.