Who wouldn't be happy after "Saving the world!"?Caswin wrote:I still haven't heard all of Richard Maxwell's episodes, but even from what I have heard, he just doesn't fascinate me the way that Arthur Dent does.31899 wrote:Did anyone else notice how both the anti-heroes were a bit psychotic, but in different ways? Arthur Dent was actually crazy, and Maxwell was unpredictable beyond reasonable measures. Which anti-hero was better?
That said, as far as his madness, he actually seemed fairly sane until Mr. Charles and his friends got their hands on him. That's one of the downer points of NovaCom: Arthur Dent is driven insane, apparently by artificial means, and when we last see him, he's still as nutty as ever. (At least he's happy...)
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Haha yeah. I do feel kinda bad for him. He wasn't insane until Charles dealt with him which was probably the creepiest aspect of the whole story in my opinionLeonard Meltsner wrote:Who wouldn't be happy after "Saving the world!"?Caswin wrote:I still haven't heard all of Richard Maxwell's episodes, but even from what I have heard, he just doesn't fascinate me the way that Arthur Dent does.31899 wrote:Did anyone else notice how both the anti-heroes were a bit psychotic, but in different ways? Arthur Dent was actually crazy, and Maxwell was unpredictable beyond reasonable measures. Which anti-hero was better?
That said, as far as his madness, he actually seemed fairly sane until Mr. Charles and his friends got their hands on him. That's one of the downer points of NovaCom: Arthur Dent is driven insane, apparently by artificial means, and when we last see him, he's still as nutty as ever. (At least he's happy...)
...okay, yeah, Richard Maxwell is interesting.
Besides his personal criminal activities, there's something about the way he goes straight from being an orderly at an old folks' home to showing up as an employee of Campbell Community College two episodes later without any warning or explanation.
Besides his personal criminal activities, there's something about the way he goes straight from being an orderly at an old folks' home to showing up as an employee of Campbell Community College two episodes later without any warning or explanation.
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Perhaps he had two part time jobs? That happens in college you know. And it was four episodes later, for the record.
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Jonathan wrote:I feel sorta like a fish with a worm in front of me, but AIOP knows full well where I stand so I'll spare a long post.
They wanted to, but the actress who plays Tasha was unavailable. Which is why they added the secret agent dimension of Mitch to the character, instead of having him be there only as Connie's love interest.AIO Psyche wrote:Although I never understood why they didn't involve Tasha and the agency more in the Novacom saga. I thought it would have been a perfect spot to bring them in.
Which, imo, made the character a lot more tolerable.
edit--It seems like Bob is taking care of the long posts for me. Well done sir.
I've always heard people say that that is a major goof of continuity and one reason the Blackgaard Saga is inferior (which I don't believe). I think it has a very good explanation though--after Richard's antics in the Battle, Regis decided he needed to educate himself on computers to avoid someone ever taking advantage of him again, so by the time it's reported that he's involved in computer work in Europe he's already undertaken a lot of education on computers.and he's known in Europe for his work in computer science (in spite of his claim that he doesn't know that much about them).
Which underscores one reason I think the Blackgaard Saga is better--it took place over many years and many many things took place outside of what we heard in the series, yet everything that did take place beyond our ears fit into the story and what did take place within what we heard left little hints for what happened elsewhere. It made the Saga much more three-dimensional then Novacom ever was.
Actually, they were going to have Richard Maxwell (AREM) but he was unavailable, so they replaced him with Robert Mitchell (AREM.
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