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Ebonyswanne
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23-08-2018 09:05
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23-08-2018 13:38
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GrumpyGhostOwl
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The idea that Anderson adopted the team and acted as a father figure to them (plural) is fanon, not canon. It's certainly in the spirit of BotP, a kind of collective in-joke, like Anderson's name, the baseball player Joe Galactor and the whale calf Nambu, but it isn't canon.
The closest canon comes to the in loco parentis status of Anderson in relation to the team is his admission in The Sky is Falling that Mark's father "left his four-year-old son to me," which sort of equates Mark with the Wembley-ware vase that Grandma left to Aunt Nora in her will, rather than saying something like, "He nominated me as Mark's legal guardian," a phrase that children would recognise from the permission slips we all got at school for excursions and stuff.
So, no, all that stuff about Anderson fitting the "A Father to His Men" trope isn't canon, it's just something that happens in the warped imagination of some fanfic writers.
In my case it's a combination of a nod to the production staff's BotP/Gatchaman in-joke thing and (more importantly) a way of attempting to humanise and soften Anderson's character. Let's face it, he's an adult who sends a small boy into combat on a regular basis, which on my planet would be a violation of a whole ream of laws, rules, regulations and UN resolutions on child soldiers. Given that on-screen, the vision of Anderson is the vision of Nambu, who does show the odd flash of concern and emotion over the team, it's difficult to write Anderson as an uncaring bastard, so rather than reinvent the wheel, some writers cheat a little and simply transplant Nambu's emotional motivation to Anderson.
If only I could transplant hibiscus cuttings as easily.
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02-09-2018 01:07
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GrumpyGhostOwl
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Yes, it's possible, and it has been done in the past, with all the attendant horror stories.
We may speculate that perhaps some bright spark in Galaxy Security or whatever agency was responsible for the formation of the G-Force team decided that the children would be raised in an institutional manner. Perhaps that same bright spark decided that they wouldn't bother with trying to form bonds in loco parentis on an emotional level in order to force the kids to bond with each other.
With careful conditioning to ensure the team were inclined to obey orders and work within boundaries, you could, in theory, produce a G-Force team with no emotional bonds to parent figures.
As to the mental and emotional health of people raised in such a manner, look at it this way: the adults responsible would have every reason to be worried if the team felt betrayed in any way, since their first loyalty would be to each other rather than the command structure.
Yeah, you'd want to be nice to those kids as they were growing up.
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10-09-2018 00:30
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Ebonyswanne
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Yeah some bright spark had the idea to enlist a bunch a smart kids to do their extreme work for them.
They didn't take into account those kids will ahhh... be kids not just brains.
Mark-- learned survival was to model commanders he observed on the base.
Jason-- Being a smartass got him what he wanted, and scary growls kept things in line for him.
Princess-- Being sweet and girly served its purpose at times with adults, and keeping the boys in check she worked day and night on good comebacks, especially for Jason.
Tiny--- food... just keep it coming.
Keyop-- what the hell?? He was actually a lab error, that turned out to be a child. So make use of him and put in G-Force. Speech therapy. no one really gave that much thought.
A bunch of career scientists, who barely saw their extended family, no idea what to do with kids. They understood chemistry and complex mathematical problems, but basics in kids therapy??
They figured raising them should be logical, smart engineered kids will simply know what to do, co-operate, and be easy to manipulate...
THEY WERE WRONG!! Jason set out to make sure they understood exactly what they created.
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12-09-2018 22:43
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