Comments on: SF Flash Fiction: The Watcher

By: ideonexus

ideonexus — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:28:54 +0000

I wrestled with referencing Uatu directly, but decided to go with the essence of what a Watcher is supposed to be. It’s like Star Trek’s Prime Directive, a law that gets lost in the show’s execution.

By: DJ Nicko

DJ Nicko — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:39:23 +0000

Man, if that guy really did read it all, he would know there is many Watchers, and they only gave up interfering due to giving the atomic power to the Prosilicus to help advance their technology, but instead watched them use it for weapons and do bad things.

I guess he might be talking about Uatu, the watcher who watched Earth, but he interfered all the damn time helping Reed Richards in times of crisis (like Galactus)

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(Of course comic background story lines are crazy and not set in stone anyways, and have gone everywhere for some people so there could be another Watcher storyline that I am just not aware of, but I think this is the main one)

Also!

The Watcher is totally creepy.

By: TGAW

TGAW — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:02:47 +0000

Heh heh heh, Nice! :)

By: Confucious

Confucious — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:48:17 +0000

Confucious say, “Are not fingers nostril-sized for a reason? Look at the ape, with it’s big fingers and big nostrils.”

By: TGAW

TGAW — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:11:58 +0000

Uh oh. Do you think the future cares if I pick my nose?

By: TGAW

TGAW — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:11:20 +0000

OOoh I really like this one. I am fond of the voice and I like the notion that even if someone didn’t witness your act when it occurred, you could still get outed by the future.

Instead of, “Even if no one sees you, God knows” it could be, “Even if no one sees you, the future knows”.

Supposedly God is pretty forgiving, but I don’t know about this future. So I need to be on my best behavior.

Just in case.