"I'm pretty sure optimism is when you believe everything's going to work out all right. Me, I'm still in shock we've gone a whole two months of history without so much as an assault. I know it's not going to last, but I'm not going to be the one to screw it up because then I won't get to find out how long it can keep going."
"They seem happy, though it's hard to be completely sure. None of of them speak much English yet, and there are at least two I don't think will ever be able to pronounce any known human language. I can't pronounce whatever they're speaking either, so we're even there. A lot of them seem younger than we'd expected, too. There are barely enough adults to go around. As for everyone else..." and here he looks amused again, "Well, that would bring me right back to my question. Turns out good ol' Pengy's been engaged to be married since, oh, about 1987 cover date. And the old jailbird didn't even tell the rest of us! Though I can understand why. She's a nice girl... and the writers promptly realized they'd written themselves into a corner and made sure she was never seen or mentioned again." There's a scowl at that for a moment. "They didn't even have the courtesy to drop a bridge on her, though considering what happened to Jeannie drove me crazy in the not funny way... maybe just wiping it all out was a mercy at the time."
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Date: 2017-09-21 10:09 am (UTC)"They seem happy, though it's hard to be completely sure. None of of them speak much English yet, and there are at least two I don't think will ever be able to pronounce any known human language. I can't pronounce whatever they're speaking either, so we're even there. A lot of them seem younger than we'd expected, too. There are barely enough adults to go around. As for everyone else..." and here he looks amused again, "Well, that would bring me right back to my question. Turns out good ol' Pengy's been engaged to be married since, oh, about 1987 cover date. And the old jailbird didn't even tell the rest of us! Though I can understand why. She's a nice girl... and the writers promptly realized they'd written themselves into a corner and made sure she was never seen or mentioned again." There's a scowl at that for a moment. "They didn't even have the courtesy to drop a bridge on her, though considering what happened to Jeannie drove me crazy in the not funny way... maybe just wiping it all out was a mercy at the time."