Thunder Empire as Screenplay

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Paul, that’s a very interesting idea. Very interesting.

Panther, I was thinking along the lines of the 60 minute cable hour. You can tell a lot more story, and you can use the occasional naughty word, too.

Raellus, I agree with you that the idea of a Second Mexican-American War is a potential land mine. I’ve been thinking about ways around this problem. My favorite option so far is to use MG Thomason (with Sam Elliot’s voice) to explain a lot of what is going on as a part of interaction with others. In the case of Mexican-American tensions, the good general would weigh in by observing that a handful of Mexican leaders had arranged things so that the decent people of Mexico would get screwed by a people folks with a lot and blame someone else for it. He might even remark that the US and Mexico have about as much reason to fight each other as Canada and the US. Still, once the nukes started flying, all the goddamned bets were off… Something to point out that the whole 2MAW makes very little sense unless you’re in the Kremlin or a couple particular offices in Mexico.


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