Problem #1: She and Sergio *are* their M.S.’s and I think Sergio has flown the coop. Never mind that she’s a sane scientist she is still their M.S. so getting her to clone herself might be awkward since it could very well tip her off that Something Is Up.
Problem #2: The mental characteristics that make her loyalty dubious are probably linked to the mental characteristics that make her useful.
Problem #3: Sparks who think their patron plans to do wrong by them can get cranky. This is not always a good thing for whoever made them cranky.
Problem #4: Her friends might get cranky if they feel she’s been wronged and some of them are tough.
Problem #5: Does Ansigma seem like the sort of employee policy consistent with high employee loyalty to begin with? Odds are that dubious loyalty is something they are used to in everyone from the Big Boss down to the bottom.
It sounds as though Ginny has reached what TV Tropes might call Bunny Slippers Lawyer level with them. As long as her work outweighs her potential as a loose cannon there is probably no reason this has to change. ^_~
“I hope you won’t consider it an exposition if I ask you to listen to me ramble for a while.”
I had wondered how the humans could keep pace with super-smart exotics without entrusting their strategy to the same kinds of beings they were fighting. Now we know. We saw Anasigma pursue timeline tech, but I didn’t figure out they already had success.
I guess to avoid death at A-Sig, you either have to be hyper-aware of everything or extraordinarily reality-blind. Bravo is clearly only hearing about half of what Mr. Green is saying. Also, judging by the name I assume he’s a clone, so he’s also probably genetically engineered or trained to be that blind.
Or maybe he’s hearing the stuff Mr. Green isn’t saying. It sure seems, particularly after the whole Green-Violet-hitting-on-Lee fiasco on the train, that the “and hot” has more than a little to do with Mr. Green’s, and therefore Anasigma’s, treatment of Dr. Lee.
(TUNE: “Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee” from Grease, Jacobs & Casey)
Here we see Virginia Lee
Scientist with sanity!
We use her brain
To make Mad Science sane!
We need someone like she!
Doctor Lee’s a tool of mine,
Loyalty is borderline …
Seems she might flip
Since she met up with Tip …
She must be kept in line!
Now it just might seem
That the Skin Horse team
Would persuade Ms. Lee to defect …
But the Second Gate
I will activate,
And her movements I will detect!
Will we see Virginia Lee
Extirpated presently?
No, we will not,
For she’s useful
(And hot) …
I’m keeping Lee with me!
Bunny slippers are also a perfectly valid reference for someone quirky but highly valuable. The scientist (borderline mad) played by Val Kilmer in the movie “Real Genius” wore them most of the time, as did the dean of the science department at his university.
No, even after watching Dr. Who, I think extirpation is a bit worse. In Dr. Who terms, it would be like going back in time and preventing you from ever happening, rather than just removing you from your job and/or killing you.
It took me a while to figure out the Bunny Slippers reference. I liked Dresden Files, but not enough of a fan to remember the line.
The thing is that most of the tropes of this kind refer to someone who is not nice, but is needed. In Ginny’s case, she’s TOO nice, but is needed. So it’s sort of a reverse trope, with a half-twist going into the water.
Perhaps to the point of being unique itself.
Mad scientists seem to be a dime-a-dozen, but the ability to replicate their work by mundane means, and therefore repeatedly and sanely, has to be beyond any monetary value. Extirpating Ginny might mean the end of Anasigma.
Now I have to wonder if Anasigma was actually built around Ginny in the first place.
something tells me the dave conspiracy is involved
Somehow I would not be surprised to learn that Mr. Minion is actually their spy. ^_^
Mr. Minion = Mr. Bravo. *^_^*
Couldn’t you just clone her? I mean if the Dave Conspiracy keeps an M.S. on retainer, shouldn’t Ansigma? Or would just end up like Mr. Bavo, then?
Problem #1: She and Sergio *are* their M.S.’s and I think Sergio has flown the coop. Never mind that she’s a sane scientist she is still their M.S. so getting her to clone herself might be awkward since it could very well tip her off that Something Is Up.
Problem #2: The mental characteristics that make her loyalty dubious are probably linked to the mental characteristics that make her useful.
Problem #3: Sparks who think their patron plans to do wrong by them can get cranky. This is not always a good thing for whoever made them cranky.
Problem #4: Her friends might get cranky if they feel she’s been wronged and some of them are tough.
Problem #5: Does Ansigma seem like the sort of employee policy consistent with high employee loyalty to begin with? Odds are that dubious loyalty is something they are used to in everyone from the Big Boss down to the bottom.
It sounds as though Ginny has reached what TV Tropes might call Bunny Slippers Lawyer level with them. As long as her work outweighs her potential as a loose cannon there is probably no reason this has to change. ^_~
That’s “Bunny Ears Lawyer.” B-)
slippers works too:p
I’ll take a Dr. Lee clone, please! And one of Mell, too, nyao! I’d love to have my own Narbonverse harem, definitely!!
Hot is always good! ^_^
Hot is definitely a plus
“I hope you won’t consider it an exposition if I ask you to listen to me ramble for a while.”
I had wondered how the humans could keep pace with super-smart exotics without entrusting their strategy to the same kinds of beings they were fighting. Now we know. We saw Anasigma pursue timeline tech, but I didn’t figure out they already had success.
With time travel tech you don’t need to be successful right away. You can always receive updates from the future that was successful.
I guess to avoid death at A-Sig, you either have to be hyper-aware of everything or extraordinarily reality-blind. Bravo is clearly only hearing about half of what Mr. Green is saying. Also, judging by the name I assume he’s a clone, so he’s also probably genetically engineered or trained to be that blind.
“Bravo” is part of his codename, “Echo Bravo”. It’s not necessarily as significant as, say, having the middle name “Beta”.
Ah. I forgot about that. I was assuming A-Sig uses the NATO alphabet for their clone serialization, rather than the Greek alphabet.
Or maybe he’s hearing the stuff Mr. Green isn’t saying. It sure seems, particularly after the whole Green-Violet-hitting-on-Lee fiasco on the train, that the “and hot” has more than a little to do with Mr. Green’s, and therefore Anasigma’s, treatment of Dr. Lee.
(TUNE: “Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee” from Grease, Jacobs & Casey)
Here we see Virginia Lee
Scientist with sanity!
We use her brain
To make Mad Science sane!
We need someone like she!
Doctor Lee’s a tool of mine,
Loyalty is borderline …
Seems she might flip
Since she met up with Tip …
She must be kept in line!
Now it just might seem
That the Skin Horse team
Would persuade Ms. Lee to defect …
But the Second Gate
I will activate,
And her movements I will detect!
Will we see Virginia Lee
Extirpated presently?
No, we will not,
For she’s useful
(And hot) …
I’m keeping Lee with me!
The name of the agent seems appropriate here.
I have found ‘Bunny Slippers’ under ‘Inspiration Nod’ in TVTropes and I still have no idea what you’re talking about
The trope Towering Barbarian is referencing is properly titled “Bunny-Ears Lawyer”
Bunny slippers are also a perfectly valid reference for someone quirky but highly valuable. The scientist (borderline mad) played by Val Kilmer in the movie “Real Genius” wore them most of the time, as did the dean of the science department at his university.
I had to look up “extirpate.” Seems unusually harsh. Couldn’t they just fire her?
It may not mean exactly what you think.
Robert, after the last Doctor Who episode, extirpation is no worse than being fired.
Maybe in the Black Ops world where they all hang out it isn’t…
No, even after watching Dr. Who, I think extirpation is a bit worse. In Dr. Who terms, it would be like going back in time and preventing you from ever happening, rather than just removing you from your job and/or killing you.
It took me a while to figure out the Bunny Slippers reference. I liked Dresden Files, but not enough of a fan to remember the line.
The thing is that most of the tropes of this kind refer to someone who is not nice, but is needed. In Ginny’s case, she’s TOO nice, but is needed. So it’s sort of a reverse trope, with a half-twist going into the water.
“Uniquely valuable” – does that mean that the ability to reverse-engineer madtech is itself an extremely anomalous ability?
Perhaps to the point of being unique itself.
Mad scientists seem to be a dime-a-dozen, but the ability to replicate their work by mundane means, and therefore repeatedly and sanely, has to be beyond any monetary value. Extirpating Ginny might mean the end of Anasigma.
Now I have to wonder if Anasigma was actually built around Ginny in the first place.
The advantage and disadvantage of being unique. Nobody can get rid of you, but nobody knows what to do with you either.
Being hot helps in her defense, too, but it can’t be the main reason she’s still around.
All I can think of is “plip!”