Yes I am, because that's how every person they encounter is going to view them. The average person doesn't know Specials exist.
Yes, but you're also limiting your concepts on how this might have been done to those available to the average human - which obviously these kids were not.
True, but then we get back to the problem of where that money was supposed to come from.
I'm thinking King Midas (Aka Bob)
Not when you're 16. If a 16-year-old, especially one as unassuming as Bob, approached a career criminal with gold to sell, either in one large lump or in regular small quantities, the only thing the criminal is going to want to do is threaten the kid to find where his gold supply is coming from to cut out the middleman. Because the career criminal isn't going to know that Bob has superpowers. And money can buy a lot of things, but loyalty isn't traditionally one of them.
And what's to stop Charles from creating the illusion of a bad ass adult? Or who's to say if he did try to threaten them they didn't fight back? I'd put one super powered kid (much less 4) up against a non super adult any day.
Not anything. There are limits to those powers and how they can be used in society without drawing unwanted attention.
Actually those can be overcome with good old strategy - which Angela and Daniel have both proven to be masters of. You can do almost anything and get away with it if you know how - even in public. You would be amazed at the things I have gotten away with in the middle of hundreds of people.
I wish the show had done a better job of telling us how
Yes! That right there was my issue. I want to know how they pulled it off, because the odds were totally against them, at least until the 1970's. That's when the gold ban was lifted, and Bob would have been in his mid-twenties. He could have made gold bricks literally out of bricks then without raising suspicions.
As my beautiful wife put it "how hard is to go to the five and dime, buy a couple hundred pairs of cheap ass on sale earrings and turn them into solid gold - producing gold jewlery?" That then becomes very easy to sell.
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Date: 2010-02-03 06:33 am (UTC)From:Yes, but you're also limiting your concepts on how this might have been done to those available to the average human - which obviously these kids were not.
True, but then we get back to the problem of where that money was supposed to come from.
I'm thinking King Midas (Aka Bob)
Not when you're 16. If a 16-year-old, especially one as unassuming as Bob, approached a career criminal with gold to sell, either in one large lump or in regular small quantities, the only thing the criminal is going to want to do is threaten the kid to find where his gold supply is coming from to cut out the middleman. Because the career criminal isn't going to know that Bob has superpowers. And money can buy a lot of things, but loyalty isn't traditionally one of them.
And what's to stop Charles from creating the illusion of a bad ass adult? Or who's to say if he did try to threaten them they didn't fight back? I'd put one super powered kid (much less 4) up against a non super adult any day.
Not anything. There are limits to those powers and how they can be used in society without drawing unwanted attention.
Actually those can be overcome with good old strategy - which Angela and Daniel have both proven to be masters of. You can do almost anything and get away with it if you know how - even in public. You would be amazed at the things I have gotten away with in the middle of hundreds of people.
I wish the show had done a better job of telling us how
Yes! That right there was my issue. I want to know how they pulled it off, because the odds were totally against them, at least until the 1970's. That's when the gold ban was lifted, and Bob would have been in his mid-twenties. He could have made gold bricks literally out of bricks then without raising suspicions.
As my beautiful wife put it "how hard is to go to the five and dime, buy a couple hundred pairs of cheap ass on sale earrings and turn them into solid gold - producing gold jewlery?"
That then becomes very easy to sell.