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Thread: The S4 contemporary TV thread
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13th Mar 2012, 3:08 PM #1
The S4 contemporary TV thread
In 1966 the BBC were still making their flagship shows (Doctor Who, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Dixon of Dock Green, Adam Adamant Lives etc) in black and white, rival channel ITV were ordering up more shows in colour. Although colour would not enter the mainstream for at least another three years marketing dictated that for overseas sales, particularly the American market, shows be made and sold as colour.
American imports like season 2 of Lost in Space, favourites like Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Peyton Place and The Fugitive arrived on UK screens in 1966 in colour.
ITC filmed series like The Saint and ABC's The Avengers and the Gerry Anderson series Stingray and Thunderbirds were also now being made in colour.
The BBC steadfastly stuck to b/w despite the continuing overseas sales of series like Doctor Who, one wonders about the state of the Doctor Who archive if Troughton's series had been made in colour.
In 1966 the BBC promised that they would be transmitting a colour service from 1967, BBC 2 were the first to show a colour programme, it's tennis output from Wimbledon in 1967, by 1968 most of that channel's output was in colour, BBC1 went colour in late 1969.
In 1966 95% of the tv audience were still watching in b/w and the price of a colour telvision set was £250, the cost of a b/w tv license was £5, and a colour one, introduced in January 1968 was £10.
13th Jun 2012, 5:30 PM #2
This Man is the One
Running across the latter part of season 3 and well into season 4 of Doctor Who was a series starring Gerald Harper as Victorian adventurer Adam Adamant.
The first series ran from June to October 1966 while a swiftly commisioned second series ran December 1966 to March 1967.
In the opening episode, "A Vintage Year for Scoundrels", Adam Llewellyn De Vere Adamant – to give him his full name – is a swashbuckling Victorian gentleman adventurer who, in 1902, goes to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend Louise, but is lured into a trap whereupon he is captured and condemned to be frozen forever in a block of ice by his arch-nemesis, the Face, whose identity is concealed behind a leather mask and who speaks in a sinister whispering voice. The Face grants his helpless prisoner one last request, and Adam asks to see Louise. But in his last moments of life before being frozen, Adam learns to his horror that Louise had faked her kidnapping and had been working for the Face all along.
Adam is found in 1966, when a building is being knocked down, and he is revived. On emerging from a hospital and collapsing on the London streets, Adam is rescued by Georgina Jones and taken to her flat. Though in many ways a typical swinging sixties chick, Georgina had grown up idolising Adam through tales of his turn-of-the-century exploits. She tries to get in on all his cases, despite his efforts to stop her, and often manages to get a job at the scene in question at a moment's notice so she can interfere in the case.
It's a great series, made as the BBCs answer to The Avengers, and produced by Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman. The existing episodes were released on DVD in 2006, of the two series made there are 13 lost episodes, mainly from series 2, but this doesn't detract from the appeal of the series and it's certainly worth a look. It's a quaint reminder of the times and certainly sets the scene for a swinging series.
The theme tune is sung by sixties singer Kathy Kirby, and listening to it there really couldn't have been anyone else that could have done it as well as she.
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All of the first units to be produced are the $35 Raspberry Pi Model B. These are the more fully featured versions of the Raspberry Pi. The main difference from the Model A is that they include an Ethernet port, and 2 USB ports.
We've been working hard at cost reduction over the last few months, and we've been able to make one significant change to the Raspberry Pi lineup. The $25 Model A has been reworked to include 256MB of RAM – double what we were originally planning to offer – and will be going into production immediately.
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Complex Networks Names Nick Wang Head of International Business Development
Complex Networks Names Nick Wang Head of International Business Development
New Appointment Comes Off The Heels of Senior Corporate Leadership Hires, Celine Perrot-Johnson As CFO and Endi Piper As General Counsel, in 2019
NEW YORK, NY (March 11, 2020) — Complex Networks, the leading global lifestyle brand and entertainment company, announces Nick Wang as its new Head of International Business Development. In his new role, Wang will lead efforts to explore and develop broader partnership opportunities for Complex Networks, brands and original video IP as it continues to expand outside of the United States. He joins Complex Networks after serving as VP, International at Propagate.
"We're thrilled to have Nick join our team and help accelerate our strategy for continued international expansion in 2020 and beyond," said Complex Networks SVP Business Development and Global Content, Myles O'Connell "He brings an impressive track record and expertise in international partnerships and distribution to the role, and we're confident he'll continue to open up new opportunities for Complex Networks' global presence."
The hire comes on the heels of Complex Networks' continued growth in international markets, most notably in Canada through a high-profile partnership with the market's largest broadcaster Corus, which was announced in June 2019. Wang will focus on driving 360 partnership opportunities and further increasing the licensing of Complex Network's successful programming on a global scale.
During his combined 7 year tenure at Propagate and Electus, Wang developed international distribution partnerships and has already successfully licensed Everyday Struggle, Complex News' daily hip-hop debate show, to MNet in South Africa.
Wang's joining of Complex continues Complex Networks' strategy of investing in and professionalizing business leadership, including Endi Piper who joined last year as General Counsel and Celine Perrot-Johnson who also joined in 2019 as Chief Financial Officer. Piper provides strategic counsel on a wide range of topics, including corporate transactions, licensing, acquisitions, production, business strategy, litigation, and intellectual property. Prior to joining Complex Networks, she served as the Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for TV One, LLC. Perrot-Johnson provides financial and strategic guidance to identify future growth opportunities and brings a unique set of skills spanning from Financial Planning, Treasury and M&A. She joins Complex Networks from Viacom where she led the global financial planning team during several corporate transactions.
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Complex Networks champions the people, brands and new trends you need to know now, will obsess over next, and we build consumer universes around them. We're what a modern entertainment company looks like and what others have followed since 2002. From pop culture and style (Complex), food entertainment (First We Feast), music discovery (Pigeons and Planes), sneaker news (Sole Collector) to our festival of cultural convergence (ComplexCon) -- if you want to be part of what's next and build valuable relationships with the audiences who live in it, come to Complex Networks.
Complex Networks, formed from the acquisition of Complex Media Inc. through a joint venture by Verizon and Hearst, creates and distributes original programming with premium distributors including Netflix, Hulu, Corus, Facebook, Snap, MSG, Fuse, Pluto TV, Roku and more. Our content spans across music to movies, sports to video games, fashion to food, and more. We reach the coveted 18-34-year-old male audience and are a Top 3 entertainment network for females 18-34 in the U.S., per comScore. In 2016, Complex Networks launched ComplexCon in Long Beach, California, to bring the "Internet to life." The annual two-day festival attracts over 200 brands, artists, exclusive collaborations, food vendors, and over 60,000 attendees


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Give admins the ability to approve topics and comments added to a "Forum" page before they're published.
Pre-approval of forum posts would provide a valuable filter for the occasional out-of-line posts. You could make this a Settings option so it could be turned on/off, depending on whether the administrator wanted to use that feature or not.
The larger the membership the more time it would take to pre-approve posts which is fine if you sit at your keyboard all day. In our 600 member case, Topics are frequently time sensitive so waiting hours or a day for pre-approval are not an option. If a post or subsequent response is inappropriate i email the offender to educate. For example, using a Topic post to send a personal message. In all our years i have only had one post that was inflamatory, which i jumped on, pointed out how it violated our user terms and conditions, warned that repeat could result in de-registration, and cancelled the post.
Please don't give administrators the option to approve or deny posts from residents. A resident might post an idea an individual administrator doesn't like. This would allow administrator's the power to control the ideas and concerns of the residents. Of course profanity and attacks on individuals should be remove promptly.
For a HOA the admins have to have control over this. If I can't I will not use this. The admin has to be able to remove inappropriate posting.
@David Christensen: Those with editing privileges over the "Forum" page can moderate all content that is added to it. While admins cannot currently approve/decline posts before they're added, they can go in and remove any posts they find inappropriate.
We realize that being able to approve/decline a post before it's added will cut back on the need to do this, and that's one reason why we're considering this feature request.
I would like to add 2 items. Allow admin to verify the forums before they are published and allow folders to have security.
@Greg Arksey: While you can add restrictions to pages to protect the content on there, folders themselves do not contain any content. They're an organizational tool used to group similar pages in the menu structure. Since they don't contain content, it's not possible to restrict the folders themselves. You can, however, restrict all of the pages inside of a folder.
@Meredith Owens: Because they are an organizational tool that is exactly why you should be able to add security to them. If you could add security on a folder it would not be necessary to add security to everything underneath. This is not uncommon as most OS file management systems I know allow security with folders. This is a good idea with no down side.
@Greg Arksey: For more information about the consequences of folder-level restrictions and why we don't plan to introduce them, see: https://feedback.hoa-express.com/admin/board/feature-requests/p/folder-level-restrictions.
The abiility to approve forum topics before they are posted is an excellent idea and has been requested by many of our members.
Please don't give administrators or board members the ability to pick and choose which topics residents are allowed to discuss. Rude or profane posts can just be be deleted.
If this one is approved please make approvals optional. As noted below we do not want to have to review and approve all posts. Our Board has agreed we will teach what is acceptable by deleting inappropriate posts.
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This could help prevent misuse of this feature to suppress free-speech, or accusations of such behavior.
@Wes Cossick: Yep. Makes sense.
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We applied for a DLC for $ 25 million, to be issued in 5 tranches, each $ 5 Mio, as payment guarantee and paid issuance fees, total $ 55,000.
After several trials and couple of months of no action (we thought) we cancelled the contract beginning of December 2019 and asked for reimbursement. Only after couple of months we received 3 copies of swifts. They turned out to be test swifts and they were not according to the contract. 2 of them were completely different and carried different face value according to the contract, one of $ 100,000 and one of $ 1,152,000.
Also, all 3 swifts, pretending to be tranches of the DLC were declined by the receiver.
Soleil refuses to reimburse our $ 47,000 despite the swifts showing they do not comply to the contract, wrong swifts with wrong face value and finally as a result, the instrument(s) have not been delivered.
Soleil denies they did wrong, despite the swifts showing evidence and refuses to reimburse. Moreover, the swifts showing that the applicant and receiver are different and still denying they did wrong and all went according to correct communication with the original applicant.
Regarding that communication, there was no communication at all with Soleil's agent in charge, located in India. In turned out, the agent was instructed by management, Mr. Govind Srivastava to keep his mouth shut, so communication was not possible at all.
Soleil Chartered Bank is a non-rated bank, with registered office at Place Pangahari, Mutsamudu, Anjouan, Union of Comoros. Their CEO pretends to be a CPA, so a certified public accountant in the USA. Their President, Mr . Adhar Srivastava pretends to be CAMS certified in financial crime prevention. Pretending do be ACAMS member and ACAMS certified for Trade-Based Money Laundering. He pretends also to be certified by the ICC for UCP 600 and Documentary Collections.
We are aware they are non-rated and based on that, their fees are lower than rated banks. In many cases, that can be the decision to use nonrated bank(s) as long as the receiver accepts instruments issued by such firms, then normally there would be no problem.
After several attempts to have the CEO's registration number as CPA, he permanently refuses to supply his registration number. Public organizations such as National Association of State Boards of Accountancy for USA and The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (and other countries) do not show the CEO's registration number, so most probably he is not a CPA. We did not check if he has indeed a lawyer degree. If you want to check if the President is indeed a member of ACAMS and Cams certified, one must have the member's approval to get that confirmation from the organization. So at this moment (March 2020) we do not know whether the President is Cams certified or not.
Actually, now knowing how that company works and seeing many accusations against them, having that certificate could be (very) relevant as ACAMS stands for financial crime prevention, but is the contrary how they work !
Obviously they use their website to reach clients and pretend to be trustworthy and reliable, so clients will go into business with them.
By publishing to be Chartered Accountancy, CPA, Law and B.Sc. in Chemistry qualifications but not willing to show evidence, that may indicate he does not have such graduations or titles. This can be treated as misleading the public with the only purpose to trick clients, as it seems this is the way Soleil makes their money.
This may help you to understand how Soleil works.
If anyone applied for a DLC Mt700 they should read the swifts very carefully. If Soleil is the issuer of the instrument and as the first swift Soleil
sent the Mt710 and NOT the Mt700, then there it goes wrong.
The Mt710 is an advising swift which can only be sent after receiving the Mt700 first. If that Mt700 did not come (how can it be as Soleil is the issuer) than it is either some kind of flip operation or fraud.
At the end, your receiver will reject the swift and cancel the DLC. Soleil in return, will not reimburse the fees to the applicant claiming they sent the instrument.
Very good possible there are other ways to trick the client but at the end of the day, the applicant paid fees for an instrument which is not delivered.
Regardless if Soleil is a nonrated bank as that is known upfront, but by conducting these procedures, which are complicated by default and Soleil
is aware of that, they trick clients.
If they pretend to be indeed trustworthy as per their website: "Trust is the Cornerstone of Every Relationship" then they should charge the client for real services rendered and not rip them off, what they do now.
If Soleil wants to compete in this (sensitive) financial market, then at least they should keep their word.
It is pity enough if a transaction does not take place, but not based on misleading, embezzlement and fraud.


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Three-Star Offensive Lineman Nate Bruce Decommits From Penn State
Update, 10 p.m.: Nate Bruce reaffirmed his commitment to Penn State with another tweet on Sunday evening.
"I was falling for the other attention lately. Which was my mistake PSU is all genuine & true love and where I want to be," he said. "I made the mistake of listening to others in my ear & the fake love."
Update, 1:25 p.m.: It appears that Nate Bruce is still committed to Penn State despite tweeting that he was decommitting earlier today, according to a report.
In one of the more interesting turns of events in recent recruiting news, Ryan Snyder of Rivals.com reported on Sunday afternoon that he had confirmed with Bruce that he was still committed. Bruce's original tweet, which was sent only hours before, has since been deleted.
Original story: Penn State football lost a verbal pledge in its 2021 recruiting class when three-star offensive lineman Nate Bruce decommitted from the program on Sunday morning.
Although his recruitment is open once again, Penn State will once again remain the Harrisburg High School standout's top choice, according to a statement released by Bruce on Twitter.
"I want to take my time and really contemplate my other options," Bruce said on Twitter. "Penn State is one of the greatest & always will be. … This is a tough decision but it's a smart decision."
Bruce, who checks in at 6'4″ and weighs 320 pounds, initially made his verbal pledge to James Franklin's program over White Out weekend back in October. He doesn't have a huge offer list, but it does include schools like Virginia Tech, Toledo, and Rutgers, among others. Bruce took unofficial visits to Happy Valley for Penn State's games against Purdue and Indiana on October 5 and November 16, respectively, and he was also one of nearly 150 unofficial visitors in town for the Nittany Lions' White Out win over Michigan.
Former Penn State football offensive line coach Matt Limegrover played a big role in recruiting Bruce prior to his official pledge. Limegrover and Franklin were in attendance to watch Bruce and Harrisburg take on the State High Little Lions before Penn State's win over Purdue on October 5.
The Nittany Lions' recruiting class of 2021 is off to a very slow start by the program's standards. Bruce's decommitment means that just two 2021 prospects — three-star tight end Nick Elksnis and fellow three-star Liam Clifford — are currently committed to the program. There's obviously a long way to go before this cycle comes to a close, and NCAA teams aren't allowed to host recruits on visits for the remainder of February thanks to the current recruiting dead period.
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Sunday, February 23, 2020 at 1:33 PM
Pascal Ackermann has named the opening stage of the UAE Tour. Near Dubai Silicon Oasis he was faster in the sprint than Caleb Ewan, Rudy Barbier and Dylan Groenewegen. The German from BORA-hansgrohe is also the first leader.
Early in the stage, four riders joined forces for the long escape. Teammates Nikolay Cherkasov and Cristian Scaroni (Gazprom-RusVelo) found Leonardo Tortomasi and Veljko Stojnić of Vini Zabù-KTM and their lead was held for a long time between two and a half and three minutes.
At the hands of the sprinter teams, the lead of the leading group was reduced, and after Scaroni and Stojnić had already been caught, Cherkasov and Tortomasi were caught in the last fifteen kilometers. Eventually the stage would turn out on the expected mass sprint.
It was urgent in the final phase, in which the teams tried to position their fast men as well as possible. Luka Mezgec was dropped off in a seat by his Mitchelton-Scott teammates, but while the Slovenian started his sprint, Pascal Ackermann also entered. That then persisted until the finish.
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Caterers - process of booking
Hi guys, hoping you can help me, i might be being a bit thick but . . .
We are starting to look for our caterer, i have emailed one place who seem good and have come recommended from the venue, after a couple of emails they have basically said yes they could work with our venue (no kitchen) and 'we can pretty much do what ever you require' which is great except we don't know what this is lol.
So, we are a bit unsure of what the next steps are having never done this before. Is it best to book a meeting to go and see them to talk through what we could do? We also want to look at other caterers to make the right choice etc so don't want to get too far into the planning aspect with each one but what do we need to know before we make our decision?
Thanks x
They should send you sample menus and packages so you get an idea of what they do. If you tell them how many guests they can give you a Quote. I would get a few separate quotes, look At reviews and then make a decision0
There are a couple of sample menus on the website with prices, but they aren't quite what we would want, no-one seems to have quite what we want but they all say they are 'bespoke' and would make a menu to our requirements, which is great but that just makes it harder to know which caterer would be best / offer best price for what we want, if that makes sense. Its just such a big part of the day and the budget and i don't want to make the wrong choice i guess. Do we perhaps need to get more of an idea of what we want so that we can be more specific to the caterers?0
Yes or you could tell them how much you can spend per head and let them tell you what matches your budget.0
Jenni8 Posts: 3,201
Yeah I would say if you are having a bespoke menu, you actually need to know what it is before you can expect to get an idea on prices. But then most caterers will allow you to change your menu up until a certain point before the wedding so if you change your minds it shouldn't be a problem except that the price may change.0
Nozomi Posts: 161
I think if you put together a vague idea of dishes that you would want then they should be able to give you an approximate cost. E.g chicken will be cheaper than lamb/duck. I would also accompany your requirement with an approximate cost of what you were hoping to pay.
With my caterer I chose a menu and then changed the meat for one thing so it went up by £1 per head, I imagine most caterers would work like this for you.0
Thanks all, we shall have to get our thinking caps on this weekend and narrow the field a bit
We like the idea of a 'family style' / sharing platter meal where one dish is placed in the middle of the table for people to help themselves. Practically this would work well in our venue plus its a little bit different.0
Helen225 Posts: 861
Have a think about how formal you'd like it. Do you want silver service, people having to chose from a menu first, right through to help yourself on the day. This will then probably drive discussions around what type of food.0


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There were rules to the Spirit World, Jet learned quickly, and the first one was, humans didn't belong. That was okay. He had been breaking rules and going places he didn't belong since the day his mama squeezed him out. He had his own rule, don't get caught. And he followed it. Mostly. Well, he tried.
The second rule to the Spirit World was that time didn't matter. Back home, in the world with the forest and the freedom fighters, the war and the Fire Nation, Ba Sing Se, and the Dai Li, Jet used to think time didn't matter much either. Days blended together in the forest and the lower ring. Children were children when they could be and adults when they had to be, and it had nothing to do with the passage of days. But the days had still passed. The dawn had come every morning, and twilight had shrouded the trees in the evening. He had still planned his raids to the Fire Army's patrol schedule, and stocked up on food for the fall and winter. In the Spirit World, time oozed to and fro, doubling back on itself like the tunnels underneath Lake Laogai, and the paths the Dai Li had carved in his mind. The sun rose and set when it wanted to. Sometimes it gave them a week of days that lasted only an hour, only to plunge them into a month long night. Sometimes spring would follow fall, and sometimes winter and summer would hold sway together, so that the blazing hot sun brought forth sprays of fragrant tropical flowers amid flurries of snow. Hunger no longer gnawed at his belly, and sleep never dragged at his eyelids. He ate when he felt like it and never was full. He slept when he found somewhere safe, and never woke up any more rested than he did when he lay down. The rhythm of the sun and seasons, the rhythm of his own body, the rhythm of other people's lives, was gone.
He wandered, most of the time, his feet carrying him over mountains and under oceans, through swamps and forests, past the dens of every spirit he had never known about or ever wanted to. He wandered into a library once, and wandered out of it as fast as he could when its owl-snake-thing keeper showed up. He wandered into a nest of dragon-fox kits, and almost stayed for dinner when mom and dad came home. He wandered onto the shores of a lake, where when he looked into the water, he could see the Avatar standing with the scared Fire kid from Ba Sing Se, the Firelord's crown in his hair. He wandered like his feet were on fire, because it felt as if they were. They itched when he stopped moving, and burned when he lay down to sleep, and there was nowhere in the whole wide Spirit World for him to call his own.
He found a beat up old teapot on a barren plain surrounded by rocky crags. He picked it up and traced a spiral in the glaze on its surface and felt the electric hum of its solidity. It had come from the physical world, from the human world, and he could feel in it the work of human hands. The years in the Spirit World (centuries? hours? minutes?) had left Jet feeling so hollow, so numb, so insubstantial, that it was as if there was no Jet there to be feeling anything at all. And in the Spirit World, where nothing ever changed, where Jet couldn't grow, or age, or be anything but the boy he had died as, being Jet was all he had.
But the teapot was real. When Jet held it, his hands were real around it. So he carried it with him, rubbing his thumb against its bent wooden handle, or cradling it against his chest. It was real, and even more, it shouldn't be there, any more than Jet should be there, and things like that, Jet always thought, should stick together.
Then, one afternoon, he awoke to find it gone. He had been curled around it like a dragon with an egg as he had napped, and now, the space his body had made for it was empty. He was on his feet before he had even made the decision to rise. The cheerful crackle of flames consuming dry wood drew him to a spot only a few paces away from where he had been sleeping. A figure squatted next to the fire, and Jet's hands itched for his hook swords, still lying under a lake, a plane of existence away.
The figure looked up and smiled at Jet, and took Jet's teapot off the fire. "You," Jet hissed with rage.
"Me," said Old Man Mushi mildly. "I noticed you had a teapot. I hope you don't mind me borrowing it. I thought I would make some tea so you could have some when you woke up."
"You know what?" Jet's mouth stretched open in a nasty grin. "I do mind, firebender. Now, are you going to crawl back to whatever hole you came from, or am I..."
He stopped. Mushi was just smiling at him, and when Jet stopped talking, Old Man Mushi picked up a tea cup and poured it full of tea. He held it out to Jet. Jet took it automatically, and brought it to his face to inhale the sweet steam rising from the tea's surface. "Or," Mushi said. "You can sit down and share a pot of tea with me, and I will give you back your teapot as good as new when we are done."
Jet's legs folded against his will, and he sipped his tea in stunned silence as the old man watched, smiling over his own teacup.
After he had drained the last cup of tea and awkwardly passed it back to Mushi, and waited stiffly until Mushi washed and returned the teapot to him, Jet darted away, clutching his teapot against his chest. When Old Man Mushi was almost out of sight, however... Jet doubled back, crouching low in the long grass. As the grass gave way to trees, and the trees to tangled forests full of twisted tree shapes, he stepped off the trail Mushi followed and kept to the shadows between the trees' hulking forms. Jet knew forests. He knew trees with trunks so wide it would have taken six Jets with their arms outstretched to circle them. He knew the shadows where the light shown red and dim through the tree canopy, and the sudden brightness that came with winter and the skeleton branches stripped of their leaves. He knew the clean smell of earth and decaying tree trunks. He knew the sounds of animals as they swooped and scurried, and fell silent when they heard him. This was no forest. This was a pale and monstrous imitation of a forest, a should-have-been forest. The Spirit World was full of should-have-beens, should-have-been forests, should-have-been lakes, should-have-been skies, and always, always, always, they left Jet dizzy and almost sick with how much they weren't.
But the trees broke. Jet hung back just out of sight in the darkness as old man Mushi shuffled his way through a field to a well tended little cottage sitting there in the sunshine.
When the sun went down, in the north, or what Jet thought was the north anyway, he bedded down in the grass behind the cottage, and listened under Old Man Mushi's window as he puttered around, making a meal he didn't need to eat, took his own teapot out of a cabinet, and brewed a pot full of tea.
The teacup clinked against the table. "You can come in, Jet."
Jet jolted, but he forced himself to grow still and stay quiet. It was possible Old Man Mushi had only guessed he might be hanging around. And if Mushi did some how know he was there, if he just kept quiet and still, and out of sight, the old man would think he had left, right? But he wasn't going to leave. Somebody had to keep a watch on the old man in case he tried anything.
"It gets cold here at night." Old Man Mushi poured another cup of tea and set it on the window sill. "You will want this."
Jet didn't take the tea.
Mushi didn't stay at the cottage all of the time. He wandered through the should-have-been forest, and up over the mountains on the clear summery days, but most of the time, he spent close to home, tucked away in his peaceful little pocket of the Spirit World. Regardless, Jet tailed him like an owl-cat with a squirrel-frog, wherever he went. The old man brought his own teapot with him wherever he went, along with teacups and a little tin of tea leaves, and Jet was starting to think it was some kind of obsession.
Which meant the son of a hog-monkey probably had his own teapot with him the day he pinched Jet's. He had been carrying his teacups, after all.
Once or twice, Jet saw him hunt down the locals and brew pots of tea for them to share. It was almost neighborly, if Mushi were willing to call a lizard monster with two heads, a small turtle with a large tree growing out of its shell, or giant talking vegetables his neighbors. Jet was starting to think he was. The old man always apologized for his "shy friend", even though not one of the spirits he made nice with seemed to notice Jet's presence at all.
But the cottage, where they spent most of their time, was nice. It had a massive, sturdy wooden table on the front lawn, and a garden in the back where Mushi grew flowers that Jet recognized from the mayor's garden, the one the Fire Nation had sent to lord it over the village they had built where his own had used to be. Old Man Mushi cooked with spices Jet didn't recognize, and the smell wafted through his windows, to where Jet lay hidden in the gently swaying grass.
Jet plucked a piece of grass and chewed the stem between his teeth. Mushi set a cup of tea on the window sill. "You know," he said. "You can keep an eye on me even better from inside the cottage with me."
"What do you know about it?" Jet snarled.
Startled to hear Jet finally answer back to him, Mushi looked out the window. "I know that it cannot be comfortable lying there on the hard, cold, ground."
Jet snorted mirthlessly. "Better out here than in the home of Fire Nation scum like you."
"I do not know if there are nations in the Spirit World." The old man gave a heavy sigh. "But certainly, there is no hundred year war."
"That's what they said in Ba Sing Se," Jet retorted, a thrill of victory running through him at Mushi's flinch. "But you wormed your way in there, didn't you? And now you've wormed your way in here too."
"I guess you could say I wormed my way into Ba Sing Se," Mushi mused. "If you think you wormed your way in too. My nephew and I got in the same way you did."
Rage curled reddish and hot at the edges of his vision. "That's different."
"Oh?" Mushi said, as if it were of no importance.
"My friends and I were running from the Fire Nation!" Like all of the other thousands upon thousands of refugees in Ba Sing Se's lower ring. "Not like you. We weren't Fire Nation!"
Old Man Mushi's expression grew far away and sad, like Jet had said something capable of hurting, instead of just the truth. "My nephew and I were on the run from the Fire Nation too."
Jet curled his lip. "Yeah right."
"And I bet we came to the Spirit World the same way too," Mushi said after a pause.
"Oh yeah?" Jet challenged. "You just died?"
Mushi's eyes twinkled with amusement. "Old men usually do."
Jet grinned again, fierce and absolutely without joy. "Then why are you wearing green? Why are you still pretending to be Earth Kingdom, when really you're a filthy-"
Old Man Mushi cut him off. "Come inside, young one. I have roast duck and honey cakes."
"You couldn't pay me to come inside your house, Fire Nation scum," he yelled.
"Then stay out in the field all night long and freeze." Mushi shrugged his shoulders sadly. "I will leave the door unlocked in case you change your mind."
Jet's hand grasped the door handle. He was only checking because he was curious to see whether or not the old man would really leave the door open like an idiot or not. The handle turned. The door swung open. Other than the sound of Mushi's snores, the cottage was silent inside, and with the eery half light of the moon through the window, that turned everything a dull, bluish gray, it made him remember the Fire Nation village where his own had been, and the houses of the grand officials, where he had stolen food and supplies for his freedom fighters. There was a defiant kind of power in being in someone else's space against their will, in saying hey, look, I'm here and you can't do anything about it; I'm here and I'm touching your things, taking your things, making them not your things anymore. Once, he had ridden high on that feeling and gloried in his untouchability after what the Fire Nation had done. Once, it had felt almost like victory.
Of course, Mushi had invited him in, so there was no rush of vindictive power at all, just a kind of cold resentment.
Listening to Mushi's snores, he opened the cabinets slowly so they didn't squeak, and rifled through the contents, halfheartedly, on the off chance that the old man would have left evidence to his schemes tucked away in there. The dishes, jars of preserves, and bags of rice he found instead shouldn't have surprised him as much as they did, he supposed. Someone like Mushi wasn't stupid enough to invite him in if he left his plans around where someone could find them. No, he would keep them locked in his head, where they would be safe. Disgusted with himself, Jet shut the cabinets and slipped into the bedroom, feeling for loose floorboards as he went.
There were drawers and cabinets in there too, in a great chest pushed up against one wall. Jet drew his breaths in shallowly, as soundlessly as possible in the silent room, as he slid the drawers open one by one and examined the folded piles of clothes, green robes, red robes, and shoved in the back, white robes and gold embossed Fire Nation armor. He had to hold himself so still when he saw it, for fear he would shake apart. Or grab it and shake it apart.
But the old man was right. So he had proof that he was a piece of slimy, Fire Nation bull-hog dung, but who was he going to tell? Who in the Spirit World would listen to him, proof or no proof? It would be like Ba Sing Se and the Dai Li all over again, and whatever Old Man Mushi was up to, Jet wasn't going to get anybody's help stopping him.
He didn't know why he even looked.
The cabinet door swung closed with a dull thud. Jet stilled, the sudden noise knocking him out of his helpless reverie. His eyes darted to the lump of old man and blankets on the bed, but it didn't move. As if Jet needed any more proof that he was a liar. He'd heard people call it the sleep of the innocent. It wasn't. It was the sleep of people who had never been hunted, never been afraid, never needed to learn to bolt upright at the least little disturbance to the air around them. It was the sleep of the arrogant, of the people who thought they were untouchable, and once they had realized they weren't, once they had been hunted, once they had been afraid, they never slept that easily again, never. Whatever tail the old man spun, he had never been on the run, from the Fire Nation or anyone else.
Jet clenched his fists in fury at the sudden, helpless disappointment that welled up inside him. Almost sick with frustration at the depths of stupidity he hadn't before realized he could even sink to, he stalked out of the room. On his way out of the cottage, back to the field and the cold hard ground, he grabbed the plate of honey cakes off of the table and threw them onto the floor. Let the old man see what Jet thought about him and his hospitality.
It wasn't until he had made it back to his grassy bed and turned back to see a figure bending over to clean honey cake of the floor, that Jet realized the snoring had stopped before he had even thought about going into Old Man Mushi's room.
The sun had not risen by the time Jet had grown sick of lying in the field, and with the way the full moon looked, hanging low in the eastern sky, they were in for another month long night. He gave the cottage a furtive glance before walking into the should-have-been woods. The twisted not-trees that stood along the path cast shadows like grasping hands and wide hungry mouths in the moonlight, and Jet had to clamp down on his trepidation as he stepped off the path. He began to wonder, as he traveled, and the shadows that fell on his face began to look familiar, if the wood repeated, the same trees arrayed endlessly, hiding one Fire Nation rat-snake's house from the rest of the world, or if he had just gotten lost in a should-have-been forest with none of the proper signs.
Jet had never been lost in a forest, lost on city streets that meandered this way and that for no reason, yes, but a forest, never.
He put his hand on the tallest tree he could see and decided this one would have to be good enough. Grabbing the lowest branch, he swung himself up. Branch by branch, foothold by foothold, he climbed higher into the tree, its gnarled wrongness at least good for giving him things to grab onto. He let it carry him upwards, until the branches thinned, and he had to perch on the peak of the trunk itself to find somewhere to rest. He stood up, one hand grasping reflexively for a handhold, and peered out over the forest canopy. In the moonlight, it almost looked real.
He watched the moon hang almost completely unmoving in the sky until he couldn't stand it anymore.
Mushi's eyes popped open and bugged out of his head like little grapes. Jet flashed him a fierce grin and shoved his forearm into the old man's throat as he swung himself up into a mount, his knees pinching into Mushi's ribs. Once he was in place, he let his elbow rest on the mattress and watched as the old man lay flat and unmoving on the bed, gasping the air back into his lungs. "So, old man, you going to tell me why you're wearing green now?"
Before he realized anything was happening, Jet found himself on the floor in a tangle of limbs. Old Man Mushi had moved like lightning (or a lightning bender) and twisted him around by the arm, dropping him like a stone. Jet rubbed his wrist, more in shock than pain, and wondered at this strange old man who ate and slept, and got up when he was supposed to, even now that he was dead and there was no reason for it, who introduced Jet to all of his friends, and could have easily taken Jet, with or without his bending, just like his kid, the scarred one with the raspy voice and twin swords.
Mushi offered him his hand, and he took it gingerly. The old man lifted him to his feet like he weighed nothing, and guided him to the bed. They sat there together on top of the rumpled sheets, the folds and creases like faraway mountains and canyons in the moonlight. The silence stretched between them, fragile, expectant, and strangely comfortable until Mushi chose to break it. "I wore green for most of the last years of my life." His mouth twisted until it finally settled on a smile. "Most of the happiest ones, too. After the war ended, I went back to Ba Sing Se and reopened my teashop. I guess it became a habit."
"The war ended," Jet laughed bleakly. "Yeah right."
Mushi looked sharply at him and lifted his arm in an aborted attempt to do... something. "The Avatar and his young friends brought peace." And then he finished with a note of pride, "My nephew helped."
"The one with the scar," Jet said flatly. "Li."
"Zuko," he corrected gently. "Yes."
Zuko. Jet turned the name over in his mind. It couldn't have sounded any more Fire Nation if it tried. "Yeah, old man, sure. You're just a dead old man who just happened to end up in the Spirit World, and I'm just a big meanie for picking on you. Next you're going to tell me that the Fire Nation didn't really want to conquer the world, it was all just a big misunderstanding."
"No." Mushi's voice grew soft. "I am never going to tell you that."
Mushi smiled. "When Sozin began the war, the Fire Nation was experiencing great prosperity, and the Earth Kingdom was in decline. He thought that because his people were doing so well and the Earth Kingdom people were not, that the Earth Kingdom was backward, and needed to be shown the way forward." Jet scoffed, and Mushi raised a hand to shush him. "The Avatar stood in the way of this progress, of ending starvation and poverty in the Earth Kingdom and throughout the world. The Air Nomads also stood in the way of Sozin's vision, because they gloried in the past and did not understand the importance of change, and because of this would have consigned millions to ignorance and death. Sozin was an idealist, you see, and he thought he and his people knew so much more than anybody else. He was wrong about that, of course, and even if he had not been wrong, conquest and colonies are not the way to teach, but when I was growing up, this is what I was taught justified the murder of an entire people, and the death and the enslavement of so many others."
Mushi had a wry, unhappy look on his face, the darkness making him look more like a stone statue than a man, and for a moment, Jet didn't know how to answer. Finally, Jet took a deep breath. "Are you really." He stopped, fury choking off his words. "Trying to tell me that the Fire Nation did what they did and all of them thought it was right?"
"The worst atrocities are often committed by people who think they are doing good," Mushi said grimly. "I think you know something about that."
Jet flushed. "What do you know about that?"
Mushi's face said he was a wise old man of mysterious ways, and Jet wanted to break his nose. "My nephew asked about you after the war. Did you know there is a colonial village that calls Sokka a hero now thanks to you?"
"Yes," he hissed.
"But no, you are right. Not everyone in the Fire Nation thought the war was right. Some fought against it, and died as traitors, or fled like we did. Others..." Mushi shook his head. "I don't think my-" He stoppled, shook his head again and swallowed. "I don't think Firelord Azulon ever believed that lie, and Ozai never even pretended to. But most of the Fire Nation did. I did. I was part of the Fire Army, and I believed we were spreading prosperity and wisdom to the world."
"What changed?" Jet asked, mouth dry.
"I lost my son in battle." The moonlight glinted iff the tears in the corners of his eyes. "And I realized I was killing other people's children."
"Oh," Jet said, voice small. He didn't know what else to say.
"I would have thought that after you met the Dai Li, you would have learned that the Fire Nation wasn't the only nation that made tyrants," Mushi chuckled, then stopped abruptly. "They told me the Dai Li killed you, after your arrest. I am sorry."
Jet shifted awkwardly, refusing to remember the rocks crushing his chest, and the drip drip dripping of water falling from the ceiling as he died. "Yeah well, I was trying to get you and your nephew arrested, so..."
"That's a very forgiving way to look at it," Mushi said, sounding pleased. "I am surprised at you."
Jet thought about this old man who made him honey cakes and invited him into his home after Jet had tried to have him killed. "You forgave me first, old man."
"It is much easier to forgive someone who failed to do you harm than someone who succeeded."
"You just..." Jet burst out. "You say these things like they're really wise, when really they're just obvious."
"Wisdom usually is very obvious." Mushi beamed at him over his beard. "Now, since we've forgiven each other, don't you think you should call me by my name?"
Jet grimaced. "Mushi?"
The old man shook his head. "Iroh."
"The Dragon of the West," Jet breathed.
General Iroh, the Dragon of the West, nodded. "Firelord Azulon was my father, and my brother was Firelord Ozai." He gave a grimace of his own. "Zuko was Ozai's firstborn."
Jet tried to picture the scared and angry boy he had met as someone important, as royalty. And he remembered the reflection in the lake that showed him standing with the Avatar, wearing the Firelord's crown. "Wow."
"The Avatar told us you were from Gaipan," Iroh said softly.
"Yeah." Jet closed his eyes. "Until the Fire Nation killed my parents when I was eight. After that, I lived in the forest."
"When you were eight." Iroh sighed. He sounded so disgusted that Jet recoiled before he could stop himself. "I was still a General in my father's army back then. I was still playing pai sho with the leader of the Rough Rhinos."
"Oh." Suddenly, Jet found he wanted to do almost anything other than continue talking. "Is the war really over?"
"Maybe not for you. It has never been over for me. But yes, it is over." Iroh rose to his feet with a small groan. "Why don't you stay here for a little while? I can make a bed up for you, and after we both get some sleep, I can make some more of those honey cakes."
"Yeah," Jet swallowed. "Okay."
He followed the old Fire Nation general, fearsome terror of the Earth Kingdom, into another bedroom. Iroh pulled bedding out of a low cabinet underneath a window and started making the bed. "My nephew's clothes are also in there, but I don't think he will ever need them. I think they will probably fit you."
Jet's mind boggled at the strange world he had fallen into where the Dragon of the West offered to let him borrow the Firelord's clothes. He unhooked his physical teapot from his belt and set it on the table next to the bed. "So how come you've got a house like this in the Spirit World?"
Iroh didn't look up as he smoothed down the sheets. "I think the real question is, why don't you have one?"
"Don't you know you're not supposed to answer a question with a question?"
"Ah, but if you find the answer to my question, you will learn the answers to both," Iroh said cheerfully. "But if you ask the wrong questions, you won't get any answers at all."
Jet's forehead wrinkled in frustration. "You're just an annoying old man, aren't you?"
When Iroh turned to smile at him, Jet thought for sure the sun was rising.