The Unusual Investigations of Kenneth Spencer and Robin Thorne / Discussion

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A hub

GreenWolf 07 Nov 2017 22:31

Bit more than a week, but it's here. The promised hub for the Three Portlands Bomber trilogy, and the other adventures of Spencer and Thorne.

Now to go write those other adventures.

Styling

GreenWolf 28 Nov 2017 21:50

Updated this hub and the tales in the Unusual Investigations series with a new UIU CSS theme. Logo is courtesy of Zhange.

Photos

GreenWolf 03 Dec 2017 05:12

Added pictures of Thorne and Spencer, done by the wonderful Perelka. The in-universe explanation for why it's drawings instead of photographs is because the Foundation has ways of manipulating people through photographs, and the UIU knows it.

Jacob Conwell 07 Nov 2017 23:47

What a snazzy hub.

+1.

Decibelles 28 Nov 2017 21:38

I like this a lot for the content, but I absolutely loathe this theme and how garish it looks to me personally. Not as actually eye-strainy as the MCF theme once upon a time, but I really dislike it. I almost no-voted because of that, but I won't let the theme get in the way of enjoyment of the content.

wmadyda 25 Nov 2019 02:42

I really like the Rush references in the titles. I was not expecting that here.

Why interwiki module is hidden?

LTVA 21 Jul 2020 15:40

In Russian translations I needed to add this:

[[module CSS]]
#side-bar .scpnet-interwiki-wrapper {
    width: 17em;
}
[[/module]]

There's just something about FBI duos

Jerden 06 Sep 2021 21:02

Kenneth Spencer and Robin Thorne reminded me of Quinn MacAllister and Darnell Christman, another duo of UIU agents. I enjoyed both series, they're definitely different but I did get the two confused at first.

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+1

Ralliston 28 Dec 2021 12:14

This rocks hard.

Just like PNM, this has some extremely strong prose, dialogue, and conceptuality, but it does something that PNM didn't really do: it made me care for the UIU. I… I don't like UIU, I won't lie, but this series singlehandedly changed that, and that's no easy deed to accomplish, y'know? Really goes to show how much a good fuckin' series like this one can change in the reader.

I lowkey do wish the three tales of the Three Portlands Bomber arc were strung between five articles to make the pacing just a little better and I do kinda think that setting up the bomber as more of a threat early on could do it good, but these are so small nitpicks they shouldn't even count as criticism, because, like I said, this is just really goddamned good.

Really solid stuff.

Oh, and the detail of the top message in the hub being similar to that of Pietrykau's in PNM's hub is a really nice little touch.

Edit: Looking through Vital Signs, I found a dead crosslink in the mention of "Dark Room;" the page it leads to seems to no longer exist. Thought I'd let you know.

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