Thanks for starting this thread, Becky.

It's interesting to see how people have approached Jason's fate. I still need to go back through my unposted fic and decide if I want to alter how I have Jason react to things.



So, I have a different question to add. If we assume that Jason is ill at the end of the series, how would he handle it? Would he hide it until he nearly dies? Would he come right out and tell everyone? Would he selectively disclose his condition? Or would he, as I suspect, hide it for as long as he could without endangering the team?



Your thoughts are appreciated (although it make take me a while to find this thread again! I am still new over here and get lost easily. )

I think from what we've seen he'd probably try to ignore or hide it until confronted about it.

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Originally posted by jublke Thanks for starting this thread, Becky. It's interesting to see how people have approached Jason's fate. I still need to go back through my unposted fic and decide if I want to alter how I have Jason react to things. So, I have a different question to add. If we assume that Jason is ill at the end of the series, how would he handle it? Would he hide it until he nearly dies? Would he come right out and tell everyone? Would he selectively disclose his condition? Or would he, as I suspect, hide it for as long as he could without endangering the team? Your thoughts are appreciated (although it make take me a while to find this thread again! I am still new over here and get lost easily. )

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Here you go, Becky. The correct BOTP viewing order. (I had also posted it in 'Episode of the Week', where the title disappeared.) The initial number is the viewing order. The number in <> is the episode number on the DVD and the Veoh site.



1. Attack of the Space Terrapin (Turtle King) <1>
2. Siege of the Squids (Little Gatchamans) <30>
3. Decoys of Doom (Snow Demon King Blizzarder) <53>
4. Mad New Ruler of Spectra (Who is Leader X?) <18>
5. Peril of the Preying Mantis (Jumbo Shakora, the Ocean Devil King) <64>
6. Giant From Planet Zyr (Hell’s Mecha-Buddha) <49>
7. The Thing With 1000 Eyes (The Fearsome Jellyfish Lens) <14>
8. Fastest Gun in the Galaxy (The Evil White Sea) <48>
9. Panic of the Peacock (Come Back! Boomerang) <68>
10. Raid of the Space Octopus (Mortal Blow! Gatchaman Fire) <56>
11. Space Rock Concert (Murder Music) <34>
12. Mammoth Shark Menace (The Daring Mini-Submarine) <47>
13. The Fiery Lava Giant (The Magma Giant, Emperor of Hell) <22>
14. Race Against Disaster (Galactor’s Witch Racer) <24>
15. A Whale Joins G-Force (Revenge! The Whale Operation.) <17>
16. Rescue of the Astronauts (Monstrous Aircraft Carrier Appears) <2>
17. Big Robot Gold Grab (The Great Mini Robot Operation) <6>
18. Musical Mummy (The Neon Giant That Smiles in the Dark) <21>
19. Attack of the Alien Wasp (The Phantom Red Impulse) <52>
20. The Space Safari (Pursue Katse!) <62>
21. Raid on a Nearby Planet (The Camera Iron Beast, Shutterkiller) <41>
22. The Ghostly Grasshopper (Kamisoral, the Guillotine Iron Beast) <25>
23. Space Rocket Escort (The Mysterious Red Impulse) <11>
24. Museum of Mystery (The Secret of the Birdstyles) <63>
25. Silent City (The Particle Iron Beast Micro-Saturn) <57>
26. Microfilm Mystery (The Indestructible Machine Mechanika) <15>
27. Mission to Inner Space (A Deadly Ring of Fire!) <69>
28. A Swarm of Robot Ants (The Great Underground Monster War) <10>
29. Cupid Does It to Keyop (Patogiller, the Triple Combined Iron Beast) <72>
30. Raid of the Red Scorpion (Gatchaman Burns With Rage) <46>
31. Spectra Space Spider (Smog Fiber, the Spiderweb Iron Beast!) <70>
32. Beast With a Sweet Tooth (The Gluttonous Monster Ibukron) <12>
33. Raid on Riga (Galactor’s Challenge) <37>
34. Prisoners in Space (The Great Breakout Trick Operation) <35>
35. Capture of the Galaxy Code (The Devil’s Airline) <40>
36. Orion, Wonder Dog of Space (Renzilla, the Electric Beast) <31>
37. Secret Island (Secret of the Monster Mecha Factory) <50>
38. The Jupiter Moon Menace (The Devil From the Moon) <9>
39. Seals of Sytron (The Sea Lion Ninja Team in the Night Fog) <38>
40. Ghost Ship of Planet Mir (The Ghost Fleet From Hell) <5>
41. The Alien Bigfoot (The Invincible Leader X) <60>
42. Super Space Spies (Galactor’s Monopoly Operation) <71>
43. Vacation on Venus (Storm Galactor’s Headquarters!) <80>
44. Keyop Does it All (The Fearsome Mechadokuga) <42>
45. Demons of the Desert (Burn, Desert Fires) <29>
46. The Space Serpent (Revenge on the Iron Beast Mechadegon) <4>
47. Rockets Out of Control (Leona 3, the Spaceship With No Tomorrow) <81>
48. The Space Mummy (Giant Mummy that Summons Storms) <3>
49. The Sea Dragon (The Firebird vs. the Fire-Breathing Dragon) <19>
50. Perilous Pleasure Cruise (The Fearsome Ice-Kander) <13>
51. G-Force in the Future (Gatchaman, 20 Years Later) <84>
52. The Awesome Armadillo (Matangar, the Armored Iron Beast) <75>
53. Tentacles From Space (Iron Beast Snake 82 <73>
54. Ace From Outer Space (Galactor’s Giant Air Show) <7>
55. Giant Space Bat (Science Ninja Team, Number G-6) <51>
56. The Great Brain Robbery (Super Bem, the Synthetic Iron Beast) <55>
57. Giant Gila Monster (Gatchaman in the Valley of Death) <39>
58. The Duplicate King (The Successful Berg Katse) <66>
59. Curse of the Cuttlefish, Pt 1 (Gezora) <27>
60. Curse of the Cuttlefish, Pt 2 (Gezora) <28>
61. Peril in the Pyramids (The Cemetery in the Moonlight) <58>
62. Save the Space Colony (Counterattack! The Underground Torpedo Operation) <78>
63. Zoltar Strikes Out (Massacre of the Mecha Curve Ball) <54>
64. Magnetic Attraction (The Mecha-Ball Runs Wild) <20>
65. Peaks of Planet Odin (Cataroller, the Revolving Beast) <43>
66. G-Force Defector (Grape Bomber, the Spherical Iron Beast) <82>
67. Invasion of the Locusts (Swarm! A Plague of Mini Iron Beasts) <61>
68. Victims of the Hawk (A Romance Destroyed by Evil) <36>
69. Island of Fear (Lay a Trap in the Crescent Base!) <74>
70. Strike at Spectra (The Wounded G-2) <83>
71. The Galaxy Girls (The Plot to Assassinate Dr. Nambu) <26>
72. The Conway Tape Tap (The Sniper Group Heavy Cobra) <85>
73. The Awesome Ray Force (The Bracelets Exposed) <65>
74. Fearful Sea Anemone (Secret of the Crescent Coral Base) <8>
75. The Alien Beetles (The Grand Insect Operation) <16>
76. Defector to Spectra (The Stolen Gatchaman Information) <67>
77. The Bat Ray Bombers (The God Phoenix Reborn) <23>
78. Rage of the Robotoids (Death Girls Unite) <59>
79. The Sky is Falling! Pt. 1 (Red Impulse’s Secret) <44>
80. The Sky is Falling! Pt. 2 (Farewell Red Impulse) <45>
81. The Fierce Flowers, Pt. 1 (Jigokillers, the People-Eating Flowers) <32>
82. The Fierce Flowers, Pt. 2 (Jigokillers, the People-Eating Flowers) <33>
83. Charioteers of Changu (The Combined Ninjas, Giant Demon Man) <79>
84. Invasion of Space Center, Pt. 1 (Completion of the Plan to Destroy the Crescent Base) <76>
85. Invasion of Space Center, Pt. 2 (The End of the Crescent Base) <77>

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Or they were concerned with their own version of things.

Recall that the big question of BotP was whether or not Zoltar might be female.

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For some fans, it might have been the big question. The only way they could explain that long hair when the Luminous One showed up. (And I think my local UHF station cut those few seconds. Maybe because it also ran the 700 Club, and tended to blank out the words 'Luminous One/Spirit', and the one use of Allah.)

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I was talking to my partner in crime, Trish, who is my co-conspirator on my Blood Line series, about trouble I was having writing the next chapters of Blood and Roses and something dawned on me.

Joe's demise was caused by one of four things: the rose bomb that killed his parents, saving the puppy, getting shot up on BC Island or something that happened that we never witnessed.

If you follow canon, Jason never had any of those things happen to him that we know of. If you base his future on that, so what happened to Joe can't happen to Jason.

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I thought I'd read your fics, Maddy, but I don't remember Jason taking drugs. I'll have to go look them up again.

And you're right, Maddy and it doesn't even take perscription drugs for that to happen.

I have Rheumatoid Arthrits and suffer from migraines, the kind that knock you flat for hours or days. So far, I've not had to take RA meds, but I've tried various perscription drugs for the migraines.

When you're in that much pain, you don't care what you take as long as the pain goes away. You don't think about consequences or after affects. I've gone to the hospital before thinking the migraine was really a stroke or anyuerism.

None of the perscriptions helped. I tried biofeedback - not the kind Catherine Rees Lay uses in her AU for Jason, but using concentration and relaxing techniques. It was 50/50.

I started messing around with OTCs and found, of all things, Excedrin Migraine actually works for me. Its simply equivalent to a dose of Advil, Tylenol and a can of soda with caffeine, such as a Coke or Pepsi. Most doctors tell migraine sufferes to stay away from caffeine, which I had been, but the caffeine in the OTC helps me. Guess I'm just weird.

I was having a lot of migraines and found I was taking the Excedrin nearly every day. I found it kept the pain away but also had a side affect - it made me high as a kite. Anytime a had even a hint of the headache, I took the pills. If I was tired, which can cause a migraine, I took the pills.

At a regular Dr appt for my RA, my doc found my blood pressure was too high. She started questioning me and I disclosed the Excedrin use. She strongly urged me to stop taking it. In her opinion, I was addicted to it. Instead, I ended up on high blood pressure meds and have actually had less problems with the migraines, but now have to suffer through them more.

I've thought about putting that into a fic - Jason innocently taking it to alleviate the pain and getting hooked on it so that the team notices his acting strangely - bouncing off the walls, etc, but I haven't.

You also have to wonder what affect any kind of drug might have when interacting with their implants, if your fic includes the implants.

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I was just re-reading this and somebody mentioned at the beginnig that Jason doesn't think about what woudl happen if he has to leae the team.

Actually, in the Don Wade episode when he's on the cliffs alone (just before Princess comes for him) he does think that - and it's clear that to him leaving the team would be the worst possible fate for him.

Zark puts it in that episode down to stress an in the Strike at Spectra his illness was directly attributed to a blow to the head. Howver, if that little fall he took did that much damage, then his helmet seriously needs work done to it.

To me - if the first incident was caused by stress, then the second it likely to be as well.

Jason is likely to try to deal with it by himself - however we see in the Don Wade episode Princess coming for him, ostensibly to get him, but clearly obviously hoping he'd open up to her.

In Raid on Spectra Mark sees the panel and is obviously worried, and then in the Conway Tape Trap we see him confronting Jason and asking what's wrong.

So, however Jason would try to hide, I think that Mark and Princess at least would be after him to talk it out.

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