Watchtower Question?

[Knight]

Something that doesnt make sense to me about the JL animated show is them operating out of the satelite and not having transporters. How are Batman and Flash specifically, going to make it to headquarters without having alot of trouble? are they all going t get their own personal Javelin-7? Anybody else have any thoughts on the matter.

[James Harvey]

The impression I got was that everyone was getting a Javelin - 7, hence the "7" in the na,me. Like it'll be number 1 - 7. I think this is more realistic than those transporters they have in the comics.

[Knight]

Thanks for the reply Dick, but I dont see why everyone would need a ship (ex. Green Lantern) and I must also add that transporters seem more of a possibility than a power ring that bends to your will and allows you to do virtually anything in a realistic world. So IMO the Justice League having transporters doesn't sound like that much of a stretch for me.But thats just my opioion.

[James Harvey]

I think they'll all have one anyways. There's always the possibility that GL could lose his power and can't enter space. Maybe they're all there incase of such contingencies (sp)

[Knight]

The "just in case" never crossed my mind that would be a good reason for all of them to each have one. I see someone like Batman customizing his because he like's everything to have a dark color.

[James Harvey]

I heard that every hero will have a remote for their javelin ships that when they press a button. wil come to them - much like the Batwing. This would also help support the "just incase" theory. Still, I like this better than the transporter beams that the comic uses.

[FanboyHolocaust]

Does anyone know why the producers selected Javelins over transporters? I never cared much for the transporters for two reasons. First, as with the FF, can't see how one not-too-covert group can have such ultra-advanced 'everyday' technology at their disposal when the population at large still drive cars; second, don't see how characters like Superman and J'onn can be "benignly" disintegrated for the trip when they can't be "malignly":confused: disintegrated by the bad guys. I used to hope that despite appearances the JLA actually teleported like Nightcrawler, thru a hole or space-pocket but physically intact; but DC put paid to that possibility when they stuck Superman, ghost-like, in mid-transport a coupla years back, and suspended Doomsday mid-transport in three diffuse parts so he could stay imprisoned on the moon. Any thoughts? Could the Powers have had a rethink along such lines for the animated series launch?

[Knight]

To Answer Fanboyholocaust's Question , in the comics the transporters actually do not disintergrate their occupants but instead work on a "ambient matter" space folding concept. Ambient matter is said to exsist in two places at once and the transporters link streams of it to other tubes. The way it works is when a being uses the transporters they are folded to the location on the other side of the tube like passing threw a revolving door.

[don Jaime]

I keep thinking this is going to be a thread about the Jehovah's Witnesses and it never is.

[FanboyHolocaust]

Thanks Knight for the transporter explanation, I guess that also explains how Doomsday can be "diffused" yet not really. Serves me right not reading the technobabble closely enough! :o
Dont'cha just love pseudo-science??

[Knight]

It's great isn't it.

[FanboyHolocaust]

One day I'm gonna make a little home movie with all my toys in a mega-crossover of some kind. Haven't done that kind of stuff in twenty years. I only have a coupla scenes that I know I'll have to put in and one of them will (somehow) have Superman incognito on the USS Enterprise. "Ensign Kent" is going to step into the transporter and he's going to blow the whole, straining transporter system to smithereens and be left standing amidst the wreckage!! :D ..Yesssss!

[Nightwing]

Originally posted by DickGrayson
I heard that every hero will have a remote for their javelin ships that when they press a button. wil come to them - much like the Batwing. This would also help support the "just incase" theory. Still, I like this better than the transporter beams that the comic uses.

Yeah I was thinking that too. Ya know, for something that seems so extravagant, it'll have to have measures about it that are convinient and easy to use for each and every hero. Hehehe, and I love that idea bout how Bruce would probably customize his. And not JUST the outside either. ;)