Robert, when I was looking at the gallery of pictures over at SciFi, there was a picture of Bob holding Harry's hockey stick. After the Box O'Doom, I sure hope that Bob won't be the giver of all things magic to Harry, because Harry made his own magical stuff in the books. Is Bob going to endow the hockey stick with some sort of magic for Harry?

Bob holding the hockey stick?  Not possible.  Harry made it himself and Bob can't touch stuff anyway.  Must be a posed pic or something.

Hey Robert, is the CC going to be better for the rest of the series?  Besides the VO issues I mentioned before, there are also words here and there either not captioned, or captioned wrong, and complete lines that are not captioned at all.  I live in a fairly large deaf community, and the caption issues could pose significant problems with those viewers.

God, I hope so.  My wife has pretty bad allergies so sometimes we have to use the CCing in specific sequences of shows when her ears are clogged up.  So I've noticed that a LOT of shows have terrible CCing.  We're checking into this, but when we're still making a lot of minor adjustments very close to broadcast (season one blues) it can't be easy for them.

BTW how much of a geek am I that whenever I see the abbreviation CC, I think it stands for "Crowd Control."

For what it's worth:

http://www.etyries.com/journeys/elmal.htm

Oh, that's just the tip of the iceberg in the great Elmal/Yelmalio Retcon Incident.  The last little vestige of a vast and angry debate.  The internet fury was great!  Teeth were gnashed!  Flame wars devestated huge swaths of internet bandwidth.

It was horrible.  Only now, in these dark days of arguing over set layouts, props and show cars have I see the fires threaten to light with such fervor again.  Please, God, I pray to Thee, lead us not down that terrible path once again!

Just remember, there was always an Elmal.  Any time you remember when there was not an Elmal is a false memory.  Yelmalio is a God-Learner plot to confuse you. 

Also Joseph Sisko was never dead.  No matter what you heard Sisko say.   

Okay, even after googling, I'm still stumped.  Care to let the unenlightened among us in on the joke?

No.   

Robert...in the books, Harry tends to use words to focus his magic, like Forzare and FlambegoFlicim Bicus ...will we see any of that, or was that tossed aside due to non-book readers not being able to tell that he's perverting using latin?

It was decided not to use "magic words" since it felt too reminiscent of Harry Potter.

Will those type of spells even be in the series, or is that what you meant when you said there will be less magic being tossed around?

There will definitely still be spells, including flying staffs and fire blasts and such.  Just not with the words.

And do we ever get to hear Blackthorne deliver the infamous line "Stupid latin correspondence course...?"

Well, Bob rips him for his horrible French at one point, so it's certainly possible.

Because I have a sneaking feeling he'd nail it.

Me too.

Robert, did Harry actually trigger the doombox when he whispered, "Pop goes the weasel," at the end?

Yes.  That's what he set as the trigger phrase.

What are the powers of the Ravenmen?

Uh, like 4d8+4 HPs?  Sword attack?  Transform into Ravens or people or something in between.  Flight at like 60"  AC 15ish?  I don't have my Oriental Adventures handy.  Some check the entry for Tengu for me.

The boss Raven Man probably had a few wizard levels too.

What was Melissa? Was she the Archive, but instead of all the world's knowledge she just had access to all the Council's records?

Melissa was a records keeper for the High Council.  A middle class type operator with limited abilities.  She could access the Council records from anywhere with a thought.  Pretty much a one trick pony.

How well off is Harry? He seemed to have a lot of expensive stuff arounf his apartment.

At one time, Harry fell into a fair amount of money.  He doesn't have it anymore.  But he still has some nice stuff left over from when he did.  All will be explained.  Patience.

Was doombox supposed to be a pun on boombox?


If it was, does that mean we can look forward to the CDoom Player and iDoom?

Oh yes.  iDoom.  I wants one!