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Debra Reynolds's avatar

Delightful!

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Michael LaVoice's avatar

All very well said. I used quite a bit of various types of humor in Galaxy's Most Wanted. A lot of it dealt with the Fish out of Water trope with Kai being a typical Earthman suddenly thrust (don't do it) into the greater galaxy at large.

Some if it was found in the absurdity of certain cultural aspects vs Earth's, like the fact that the race that created the AI that programed the battlebots doesn't use fictional narrative. This led to them being accidentally programmed with all of Earth's war movies because the AI thought they were documentaries.

Some if it was absurdity, like the Grey alien Nruz, who is so obsessed with 1980's American culture, he worships Van Halen and talks like Bill and Ted.

All of this was injected (STOP THAT. GET SOME HELP) into a story involving the fun on interstellr crime and the horrors of interstellar war. So basic tension breakers.

Party on David!

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