"Marshall is 13 years old, a sweet innocent-looking kid, bright and shy..."
Aww!
I'm so sad the kindergartner with the skull never made it to screen. And that we never found out more about all those pieces of evidence listed at the end...
Yeah, he never came across as particularly shy, and even did make quite a few friends. He just lost them at an alarming rate...
I'm also not sure about sweet or innocent. "Sweet" I tend to associate more with Simon. There is quite a bit of innocence in those early episodes where he still thinks if he can get the evidence to the right authorities, somebody will Do Something.
I will wait literally forever for malevolent!Marshall fic. Like, you know companions in Fallout can be left in one spot and they'll always be there wen you go back to them? THAT WILL BE ME, PATIENTLY WAITING AT THE SETTLEMENT WITH DOGMEAT.
Yeah, I wondered about that - my first interpretation was that he was gonna be like a pseudo-science scientist, like prof zircon but real, but maybe they meant like a lab techichian, ie doesn't have a doctorate?
I was re-reading the scripts a while back, and realized that they do never say what Edgar's highest degree is.
He's "Mr. Teller" instead of "Dr. Teller" in Marshall's Theory... and it's possible he stopped after finishing "Matter: What Is It Exactly" as his master's thesis.
But he is also very much a scientist there, which makes me wonder if they did have a different career path in mind in this draft.
True. I just realized with a master's in engineering from MIT, he would have the same academic credential as Howard in The Big Bang Theory.
I'm just not sure if you'd refer to an engineer as a quasi scientist, though. Unless you were really, really trying to annoy one, which maybe Marshall is...
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Date: 2016-07-17 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-17 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-17 03:53 pm (UTC)Aww!
I'm so sad the kindergartner with the skull never made it to screen. And that we never found out more about all those pieces of evidence listed at the end...
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Date: 2016-07-17 04:38 pm (UTC)And YES to the skull toddler and the other exhibits... altho the good news is we now have fanfic fuel!
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Date: 2016-07-17 04:48 pm (UTC)I'm also not sure about sweet or innocent. "Sweet" I tend to associate more with Simon. There is quite a bit of innocence in those early episodes where he still thinks if he can get the evidence to the right authorities, somebody will Do Something.
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Date: 2016-07-17 04:59 pm (UTC)You just reminded me of karina magyars headcanon where mars is straightup murdering everyone...
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Date: 2016-07-17 05:05 pm (UTC)Some day, I should do evil, mass murdering Mars fic.
After I finish the "After Nightfall" 'verse storyline.
And possibly the very wrong Dash/Mars mind control one I was inspired to revisit this morning.
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Date: 2016-07-17 05:26 pm (UTC)And YES I want so much malevolent!marshall storyline...
And I am automatically inclined to like slashy fanfic described as wrong...
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Date: 2016-07-17 05:53 pm (UTC)And maybe I'll do malevolent!Marshall after that, because oh, does he need all the fic.
The problem is, I think the wronger it gets, the slower I tend to write...
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Date: 2016-07-17 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-17 06:05 pm (UTC)You just reminded me of karina magyars headcanon where mars is straightup murdering everyone...
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Date: 2016-07-17 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-17 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-17 05:45 pm (UTC)He's "Mr. Teller" instead of "Dr. Teller" in Marshall's Theory... and it's possible he stopped after finishing "Matter: What Is It Exactly" as his master's thesis.
But he is also very much a scientist there, which makes me wonder if they did have a different career path in mind in this draft.
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Date: 2016-07-17 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-17 05:56 pm (UTC)I'm just not sure if you'd refer to an engineer as a quasi scientist, though. Unless you were really, really trying to annoy one, which maybe Marshall is...
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Date: 2016-07-17 06:14 pm (UTC)