I’ve been telling people for years that Virginia is indeed Mad, but only one or two people have ever agreed with me.
The thing is, there’s a difference between Mad and insane. Most Mads are also insane. Virginia, however, is mostly sane, but still Mad. She has all the abilities that Madness provides, but she doesn’t have the raving insanity that usually drives a Mad.
In a way, she’s more dangerous than a typical Mad, because she makes Mad science accessible to normal people.
In other words she is so Mad she can make Mad Science sane?
This is the kind of thing that happened when two graduate students under Leo Szilard figured out how The Bomb was actually practical.
Scary doesn’t even begin to describe that level of Mad.
I agree with you. The selection we saw in “Narbonic” makes for a lot of variety, and Dr. Lee could just be one of those. (Of course someone that into screwing Nick must have a screw loose.)
Gotta disagree there. Nick as a pacifist could seem quite exotic and romantic to an employee of a super-evil organization, then even more so after she defected. He has repeatedly done the hero routine (including among the supers), and while I would expect motherly pride from Virgina on that point it isn’t unreasonable to see heroism as motivation to jump his bones once he became human. Plus he isn’t a narcissist or manipulator, and has a teenager’s sexual stamina.
Lee may be a spark, but it isn’t madness for her to want Nick.
The problem is that the local ecosystem is calibrated to the high tempertures.
People were never meant to live in Florida comfortably, and changing the temperature to be cooler year round is basically the most humanly selfish thing you can think to do to the region. It’ll particularly hurt species like the manatees, who love them their warm water.
She may be crazy, but she’s not Mad. Everything she makes is reverse engineered or based off of others’ designs. If she were Mad she’d be designing things herself.
You mean like the weather machine she designed herself?
You mean like her ability to install a human brain in a helicopter?
She’s Mad, alright. But she’s more dangerous because she makes Mad science accessible to normal people. That’s why A-Sig can now permanently extirpate people as brains in jars, and they now have a working weather machine.
I’d have to go back and re-read the entire archive to be sure, but I don’t recall her ever saying she reverse-engineered anything on the Whirligig Project.
She did, however, say that she created the VR technology they were using for the extirpation environment, and she said that brain-schlorping was her department. She was more angry that someone else was schlorping brains than she was about the fact that they were about to do it to her.
She has also said more than once that A-Sig was re-using her technology on other projects, and that she should have known they would when she developed it.
And then of course there was St. Charlie, where she said that it would be too much work to try and repair the broken brain dispenser, so she decided “No! I’ll just build my own, sensible brain vending machine!” Which made even the man who created the Second Gate think she was nuts.
Yes, she reverse-engineered a lot of Mad creations, but she also came up with plenty of her own.
Hey, if you can’t trust zombies with a weather controlling device, who _can_ you trust?
It’s not a weather controlling device, it’s a weather controlling device controlling device.
… which looks like a broken mail sorter.
Wouldn’t most real-world psychologists give Mads a diagnosis of some combination of Giftedness, ADHD, and psychosis?
Dr Lee isn’t Mad. Just sort of…mad-adjacent.
Sounds like a Spark
I’ve been telling people for years that Virginia is indeed Mad, but only one or two people have ever agreed with me.
The thing is, there’s a difference between Mad and insane. Most Mads are also insane. Virginia, however, is mostly sane, but still Mad. She has all the abilities that Madness provides, but she doesn’t have the raving insanity that usually drives a Mad.
In a way, she’s more dangerous than a typical Mad, because she makes Mad science accessible to normal people.
In other words she is so Mad she can make Mad Science sane?
This is the kind of thing that happened when two graduate students under Leo Szilard figured out how The Bomb was actually practical.
Scary doesn’t even begin to describe that level of Mad.
I agree with you. The selection we saw in “Narbonic” makes for a lot of variety, and Dr. Lee could just be one of those. (Of course someone that into screwing Nick must have a screw loose.)
Conversely, after everything Virginia has done to him, and he’s still that eager to be banging her, Nick’s sanity is up for grabs, too.
Gotta disagree there. Nick as a pacifist could seem quite exotic and romantic to an employee of a super-evil organization, then even more so after she defected. He has repeatedly done the hero routine (including among the supers), and while I would expect motherly pride from Virgina on that point it isn’t unreasonable to see heroism as motivation to jump his bones once he became human. Plus he isn’t a narcissist or manipulator, and has a teenager’s sexual stamina.
Lee may be a spark, but it isn’t madness for her to want Nick.
Dangling plot thread snipped! More or less.
Snipped? Or just tangled?
Maybe tied into a nice sheep-shank knot, ready to be pulled apart if necessary in the future.
Cooler temperatures in Florida, year round.
The problem is that the local ecosystem is calibrated to the high tempertures.
People were never meant to live in Florida comfortably, and changing the temperature to be cooler year round is basically the most humanly selfish thing you can think to do to the region. It’ll particularly hurt species like the manatees, who love them their warm water.
Those poor sentient bayous
Nothing gets bayou.
But we can warm up parts of Florida to keep those warm water species happy.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/florida-crocs-are-thriving-outside-nuclear-power-plant-180972712/
Great, this will in no way result in catastrophe or another SyFy original movie (okay, similar terms).
Obligatory “Habitat for Huge Manatees” joke…
They wouldn’t have to cool all of Florida. They could just cool Zombie Island.
Dr. Lee, remind us again how you’re not mad
She may be crazy, but she’s not Mad. Everything she makes is reverse engineered or based off of others’ designs. If she were Mad she’d be designing things herself.
You mean like the weather machine she designed herself?
You mean like her ability to install a human brain in a helicopter?
She’s Mad, alright. But she’s more dangerous because she makes Mad science accessible to normal people. That’s why A-Sig can now permanently extirpate people as brains in jars, and they now have a working weather machine.
She may have been lying or delusional, but she said she reverse engineered the Whirligig program from someone else’s research.
I’d have to go back and re-read the entire archive to be sure, but I don’t recall her ever saying she reverse-engineered anything on the Whirligig Project.
She did, however, say that she created the VR technology they were using for the extirpation environment, and she said that brain-schlorping was her department. She was more angry that someone else was schlorping brains than she was about the fact that they were about to do it to her.
She has also said more than once that A-Sig was re-using her technology on other projects, and that she should have known they would when she developed it.
And then of course there was St. Charlie, where she said that it would be too much work to try and repair the broken brain dispenser, so she decided “No! I’ll just build my own, sensible brain vending machine!” Which made even the man who created the Second Gate think she was nuts.
Yes, she reverse-engineered a lot of Mad creations, but she also came up with plenty of her own.
Agreed. Dr. Lee is definitely Mad. She is a nice Mad, but a Mad nonetheless, and undoubtedly in some ways a very dangerous one.