The Letters Page! Episode 3 Discussion (Baron Blade)

Congrats to all who guessed it was Blade this week, you were right!

It's not that surprising.   Looking forward to what is revealed. 

Yay! What do I win?

Major Spoilers in white text

Baron Blade before showing up as Mad Bomber Blade founds RevoCorp

I recall this being known news. I'll listen to the podcast when I get home from work

I don't.  We've known he worked with them in regards to Setback but not that he created the corporation.   

Yeah, that info was the big takeaway from this one, as far as I'm concerned. And now I'm way more excited to know stuff about them! :D

For futere quote posts, let's not reveal the spoilers hidden in white. Kind of defeats the purpose. :/

I know most probably won't be in here until after listening, but there's always thos  unlucky few that stumble upon threads like this unknowingly.

Yeah I was kind of bummed Foote did that since I felt that was a major reveal in this episode. 

I honestly didn't even realise I did! It showed up as white when I hit the "quote" button and typing my response. Evidently the copy/pasta from quoteing an entire post doesn't take the color formatting with it

I edited it out.

Thanks.  

If you do want to read a summary of items in the podcast WalkingTarget posted it here under the confirmed section http://sentinelswiki.com/index.php?title=Baron_Blade/References

Whilst I don't feel it was confirmed or anything - Did anyone else get a similarity vibe from the describtion of Blade's biomechanical arm and the function of Chrono Ranger's?

I hope the Baron’s hand can turn into a compound bow.

We've been told who put Con together by Christopher and Baron Blade was not part of that. Chrono-Ranger/References - Sentinel Comics Wiki

Of course of course! But that doesn't neccesarily mean that con didn't put Baron Blade's arm onto Chrono Ranger, or that they didn't use the idea.

Of course it doesn't mean that they did either, it was just where my mind went.

So the two things I took away from it were the conversation in the Realm of Discord and how it affected Blade -- I'm a sucker for redeemable villains, and it's an interesting way to force him and Legacy to talk things out, at least as much as they can -- and that it was specifically saving Legacy's life in how he faked his death. I would very much like to see that story told.

This did turn out to be the most fun episode so far, Adam and Christopher really enjoyed it. Especially since they got to reveal so many different things that no one has really caught onto so far.

My only disappointment with this episode is we didn't learn anything about the alternate female variant of Luminary, but then I guess she's not technically Baron Blade.

The female Luminary will most likely be covered in the OblivAeon Event episode if they have one.

Yup, excellent episode! Baron Blade feels a bit more sympathetic to me after this episode, for some reason.

I can understand being slightly sympathetic toward the Baron, BUT he does set himself up for failure a lot. Enough so that I’m quite comfortable now calling him the Baron of Bad Ideas.

More like Baron of Short Sighted Ideas.   

The Bone-Headed Baron.

Baron Blade really feels like he could have been a hero. But he focused on the wrong things, and became a villain instead.

Vengeance drove him to being a villain.  We shall see how he does as a hero with the Luminary deck at least.  

"I've built this multiverse ending bomb to blow up Oblivaeon. If there's no Multiverse to destroy, he'll just go away!"

I mean, he's not wrong.

An Interlude is up!

The most important thing is the Podcast should be up each week at 10.00am Central Time, and we have a schedule of what is being discussed this month.

February 7th: Expatriette
February 14th: Citizen Dawn
February 21st: Setback
February 28th: Kismet
 

Citizen Dawn is going to be a Valentine Day special! Woo!

OK, I fanboyed a bit when I saw Setback was this early in the podcast. He's one of my favorites, and I was looking forward to his episode.  Now I dont need to be quite so patient!

Me, after playing Oops, Sorry: I'm Setback, and I'm helping!

I'm really surprised kismet is so early before some others.

Either way, I think the schedual of upcoming things is important. This way I can think of questions to ask!

I like the cadence of hero/nemesis that this month has. Hope that keeps up!

Um, guys? I’m pretty sure that this is the wrong topic for discussing upcoming podcasts. Unless it’s about how Baron Blade has influenced them.

Pretty sure you can make a new thread if you want, but as the person who started the thread, and posted the update, I thought that a separate thread on the interlude would be "clutter".

Heartbroken that Tachyon is not sooner. Ah well, I will take a breath and we will get to her eventually

So at about the 21:18 mark of this episode Christopher and Adam talk about the Battle Suit and say later iterations weren't always used by Baron Blade.   Since we know of the connection to RevoCorp that he setup I feel this means the Revenant and Benchmark suits are some of those later iterations of the Battle Suit.  

So Setback wouldn't be the only hero to get his powers from Blade, then, you think? :) Iiiiiinteresting!

A few things:

1.  Up is Phish = 9 letters.

2.  War Zeppelins!!!!!  (Zeppelins is also 9 letters, is that still a thing we are doing?)  This made me so happy to hear.  Because I love the idea of war zeppelins so very much.

3.  Heroic Luminary is part of OblivAeon, from Gen-Con we talked about her at the foil card reveal and it was confirmed that she's from a universe where Legacy is a villain, not Iron Legacy style, he's just a very bad guy, and Heroic Luminary is fighting against him.  It's a bizarro world.

4.  Love the idea that the Baron Blade who likes Knives a lot is actually a more effective Baron Blade.  Baron Blade Prime is building a giant doomsday device and Stabby Baron Blade is just sharpenning his knife in the corner.  I like Stabby Blade.

5.  Love the character development of Blade through the positive energy field and into OblivAeon.  Would love to know more about his ideology when he goes back to being a bad guy.

My sense was it is a sort of, 'Then let me be evil,' thing. He's not so obsessed with revenge or taking over the world, but making devices and evil plots is still the thing he's best at, so he's gonna do it and have fun with it.

I get the feeling that the attack on Megaopolis in tactics was his way of going, "Hey Paul, how's it going.  Just making sure you're not getting too soft."

Here's the important question: Did Christopher pick the right pronunciation of your name?

They used one of my favorite mis-pronounciations.

About the Trevorlude, who played it backwards to find out the secret message because I'm not able to? Would've commented on the Trevorlude page, but there is none.

I think that is just a joke. I heard no audio that sounds like it would be "good" reversed.

Saw this on twitter and figured I'd post it here.   RevoCorp backwards entirely is Pro Cover

Blade's the best at what he does!

Someone brought up a question to me.

If Baron is a robotic Genuis why does he replace his bad eye with a cybernetic eye?

He is ok replacing his perfectly working hand but doesn't upgrade this eye. Seems strange to me once Nova form The Discord chat brought it up.

That assumes his eye doesn't work at all.  I also would see it as a major motivation because that scarring led to him becoming Baron Blade since he would no longer Ivan Ramonat.  So keeping it would serve as a reminder.