Thread:Plasmaster/@comment-5055855-20151114163544

I'll be completely honest here...I only started reading The Pyro part 2 today. (And finished too)

I'm sorry, I only seemed to have found time to do so just now and oh my gosh, it is still as good as the last one. I hope you can forgive me for that.

Cliffhanger for the win! Heh heh... ^_^'

Oh, and yeah, I'll put some stuff here that I've noted.

I saw the part where Cassidy's grandfather (in book 1) where he's watching Spongebob and Isaac says the show stopped airing about thirty years ago. Well then, just last year, Spongebob stopped airing. Which then means The Pyro takes place in about 30-ish years from now! That's was something, did you do that on purpose? Now 30 years seems like a short period of time for humans to evolve and have superpowers, but if we take Moore's Law into consideration, (technological advancement doubles in approximately 2 years) then in thirty years...dude...the Singularity is said to happen in thirty years. O_O (That is so cool, how did that coincidence happen?!) Well anyway, I'm not that concerned about the singularity just yet, only when signs show then will I do something (sounds stubborn eh?) Anyway, since evolution only happens if drastic measures happen to the environment. So the whole reason why the humans gained the ability to manipulate matter would be a result of something that happens in their past which is never clearly indicated what exactly happened.

I have a theory, that thing that caused humanity to conform with nature could be climate change. Specifically Global Warming. I think you can already forsee what I'm about to say from this point, so let's just say that the humans needed a way to control the heat. Whether it be caused by mutation or technology, the world was frozen solid by humans in hopes of making it cooler. But instead the ice age happens for some reason, in the story the ice age was a thing the government selfishly wanted, but I'll leave you up to what it really is.

Well, let's see, I actually have some comparisons of your story with others'. My first impulse was like a "post-apocalyptic Avatar: The Last Airbender" since the whole story felt the same for the most part. A bunch of kids with powers where controlling matter is a normal thing. There's a movement who wants to control the world and some terrible dominant element is all over the place.

Another is leaning more towards if my theory is correct. The whole possible lore is very similar to the lore of Snowpeircer. Global warming causes the government to start the next ice age. I've only watched the movie (and it's great) but they said it was also a comic book.

Anyway, since the singularity may occur during your story, do you plan on making incorporating the whole idea about robots taking over in the year 2045 thing? I'd like to see that put to use in the story, that'll be cool. 