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Re: Ninja and Castle? What? (was: Re: Future Wild West Possibilities)
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lugnet.western, lugnet.castle
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Date:
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Sun, 2 Jan 2000 01:41:08 GMT
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In lugnet.western, Arjan Brugman writes:
> Shiri <shirid@hotmail.com> schreef in berichtnieuws FnL6up.CGL@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.western, Frank Filz writes:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > There is also no interaction between the ninja
> > > and the rest of the castle theme.
> >
> > Why should there be any interaction between ninja and other castle sets? • One
> > is in Japan, the rest is in Europe! How would they meet? (Where would they
> > meet? Halfway thru? In Pakistan? :-)
> > If anything, I'd think interaction between Fright Knight and Royals. (In • fact,
> > I'm planning a story-line about that.)
> >
> > -Shiri
>
> You've got a reasonable point there, but what I think the other guy meant
> was that
> Ninja actually should've been a theme of its own.
Actually, I think Frank was just trying to make a point about conflicts - I
was just picking on one certain sentence. See it in the context:
Frank wrote the following anecdote:
> > > TLC has also shied away from depiction of conflicts that people might be
> > > sensitive about (notice that wild west shows no conflict between the whites
> > > and the Indians, the conflict depicted is either cavalry/sheriff against the
> > > outlaws, or between Indians). There is also no interaction between the ninja
> > > and the rest of the castle theme.
So you see he was actually saying that TLC was avoiding conflicts, I just
found it funny that Ninjas and Castles could meet :-)
-Shiri
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> IMHO Ninja just isn't Castle. It's Ninja. It might indeed be the Japanese
> equivalent
> of European castles, but I completely agree it totally doesn't fit in with
> Castle as a theme.
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