Selkie, which would you rather have: one destructive power that all your enemies will quickly learn how to avoid, or a myriad of ways to craft and control all kinds of potentially destructive inventions? You can always turn your ploughshares into swords later…
Aw, Todd. Don’t call your kid a brat. Label the kid’s actions—not her person (if nothing else, but to set an example). …Though it’s tough when they are snippy, and Selkie certainly is living up to that drama-queen label here. Typical 9 year old! It’s all about (what they perceive as) “fairness” and getting what they ask for at that age.
In human’s it’s really more the start of puberty than many realize. I’ve seen a few of 9 YO girls actually start to get “PMS” at this age well before getting their periods (and it’s not just a matter of the older women in the house being grumpy). I wonder if Sarnothi biology runs the same way?
Of course, there are certainly many other issues that are at play here with all Selkie has gone through—poor kid!
Poor Selkie. Her dreams of laser beam eyes cruelly dashed…
Somehow, Pohl’s remark to her seems to have a deeper meaning than just comedy.
By any chance has Pohl ever gone by “Smalls?”
This was my exact thought. Someone has watched The Sandlot, methinks.
Think of it as a challenge, Selkie. He tries to teach you non-destructive applications, you try to figure out how to weaponize them.
Selkie, which would you rather have: one destructive power that all your enemies will quickly learn how to avoid, or a myriad of ways to craft and control all kinds of potentially destructive inventions? You can always turn your ploughshares into swords later…
So basically the Green Lantern ring? :p
Hey Dave, “Zappy Boi” is missing from Pohl’s shirt. Bring back Zappy Boi – Make America GAME Again! 😉
Aw, Todd. Don’t call your kid a brat. Label the kid’s actions—not her person (if nothing else, but to set an example). …Though it’s tough when they are snippy, and Selkie certainly is living up to that drama-queen label here. Typical 9 year old! It’s all about (what they perceive as) “fairness” and getting what they ask for at that age.
In human’s it’s really more the start of puberty than many realize. I’ve seen a few of 9 YO girls actually start to get “PMS” at this age well before getting their periods (and it’s not just a matter of the older women in the house being grumpy). I wonder if Sarnothi biology runs the same way?
Of course, there are certainly many other issues that are at play here with all Selkie has gone through—poor kid!
Dave…. “Its a crime” is incorrect. It should be “It’s a crime”.
It’s. It is.
Pretty sure that’s just Selkie’s lisp. She pluralizes everything.
But then it would be “its is a crime”.
Congratulations on your one thousand eleventy-first episode! 😀
Not eyebeams, I-beams. 😀
“You’re KILLINGS me, Doc!!onethousandonehundredelevens!!!”
And Selkie, your training is going more in direction of Green Lantern than Cyclops.