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Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2010-08-20 11:06 pm

Day 20 - L is for laser cannon

It's back to the SF ABC today for [livejournal.com profile] naarmamo.

L is for laser cannon


Don't try this at home, people. You could blow up your city. ;-)

My NaArMaMo 2010 Gallery is here and my SF ABC Gallery is here.

[identity profile] linda-joyce.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
Tarrent looks inofrdinately pleased with himself and the big gun. %D

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
It's meant to be Bayban!

[Edit] I made him blonder so it's a bit more obvious. :-)
Edited 2010-08-20 11:37 (UTC)

[identity profile] linda-joyce.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry my brain is not wsorking today, Those two always get mixed up in my mind when I see them anyway but as the actors. I should have known better Tarrent never wore black

[identity profile] linda-joyce.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yes now it is Bayban, Tarrent would have looked inodrinately pleased with himself if he had ever got his hands on the big gun though.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
And blown up the place just as badly.

Though why a laser would do that is another matter. :-P

[identity profile] linda-joyce.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
The heat from the lasere ignited an otherwise totally harmless gas in the atmosphere causing the buildings to explode.

The natives had rigged the city to explode once the last of them had crossed over to Home aqnd the firing of the lazer was purely a coincidence.

Two explanation, technobable and reasonable, though the second one does leave out why the natives would want to destroy the city. %)

[identity profile] jaxomsride.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Depends how much power the laser put out. They'd reactivated the forcefield. Bayban shot that and the energy was promptly returned back. Which either was enough to blow up the city, or casued a massive malfunction in the cannon that did the trick.

PS

[identity profile] jaxomsride.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Caused a massive malfunction (typo!)

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-21 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe! Or the forcefield itself absorbed all the energy and blew up. Vila knew it would happen, and he's an expert on force fields, so I may go with the that.

[identity profile] entropy-house.livejournal.com 2010-08-21 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
*nods* I figured the force couldn't all go through the field, but the tiny percentage that could (whatever it was .0001?) was coming through too fast to be dissipated, so the force field overloaded and blew back with not only the laser cannon's force, but all of whatever energy powered *it*.
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[personal profile] trixieleitz 2010-08-20 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I only just saw this, so I don't know how he used to look, but he definitely looks like Bayban now :)

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
His hair was more a light-to-medium cool brown. Baker was pretty blond as the Sixth Doctor, so I'm not sure whether to load the old image back or not. Nah, I'll stay with this one. His hair does seem to catch the light more than Tarrant's, in this icon anyway.
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[personal profile] kernezelda 2010-08-20 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Bayban! And his very large gun.... Hee!

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! Does it look like him? Or should I make him blonder? Maybe I will.
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[identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny, if you'd asked me I'd have said he had a reddish tinge. But looking at a screencap (http://www.framecaplib.com/b7lib/html/episodes/images/cityedge/city211.htm), it's the same middling-to-darkish shade of brown as Tarrant's. (I always think Tarrant's hair is lighter than it is.)

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I always think of it as lighter than Tarrant's. Never mind, I made him fairly light because I'm not sure I have any blonds in the ABC.

Damn. That screencap makes it very clear. I may go back to the precious colour.
Edited 2010-08-20 12:11 (UTC)
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[identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I think what we've established is that no one really remembers what colour it is, so you can probably make it up!

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
And I meant previous colour! He was only precious to his mother--maybe. :-P

I have both here and I think I prefer the lighter one as a better contrast to the background.
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[personal profile] trixieleitz 2010-08-20 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting! I always thought Bayban's hair was lighter than Tarrant's, but you're right.

[identity profile] san-valentine.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The attachment of the front legs is rather odd - they don't seem to sit in the right place. And, just to be picky, I'd like the laser beam to look a little more impresive.
However, I did recognise it as Bayban immediately. The costume was the main clue, along with the cannon.

[identity profile] zoefruitcake.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Bayban!

:D

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! :-D

[identity profile] vandonovan.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahahahahaha, he just looks so FRIENDLY for blowing up cities. XD But it's definitely Bayban and while that cap posted shows a similar color to Tarrant's, Bayban's hair was definitely lighter in color. (Though not as light as it was by the time Baker played the Doctor.)

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
He's got maniacal eyes, but I was trying to keep the ABC reassuring and fun. :-D

I do think Six influenced me in thinking of him as so light-haired, and it does seem to catch the light more on top than Tarrant's. Great icon with the snow!

Tarrant is one of those whose hair people see differently. I've seen him described as blonde and as auburn, but I think of his hair as brown.

[identity profile] jaxomsride.livejournal.com 2010-08-20 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay Baban's cannon!

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-21 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yep! With changes because I couldn't figure out the base from screencaps.

[identity profile] ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com 2010-08-21 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
I like this one, too. Bayban even looks cute.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-21 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
It's only skin-deep!
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[personal profile] pebblerocker 2010-08-21 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
That's great, I love the laser beam lettering. He does look a little bit crazy in the eyes!

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-08-21 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
Bwahahaha, yes! He's not the sanest.