Nova seems awfully touchy

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Okay, so a few days ago, I stumbled across the website of one Amy Howard Wilson. As it turns out, she’s the one who did the voice of Nova on the classic Star Blazers cartoon.

In her guestbook, some guy commented that it seemed rather dangerous to have just one woman on a ship full of men – that this was somehow asking for trouble. I nodded and said to myself, “Yep, I agree. I always thought that was a recipe for trouble. Having dozens of young men on an extended voyage with just one woman-- heck, I doubt that the military would ever allow such a situation to occur. Even if discipline is kept, just having these guys vie for a lone woman’s affections would surely cause problems.”

On a whim, I popped back to her website today. To my surprise, that message had been deleted, and Ms. Wilson posted the following angry response:

Whoa! I can understand getting upset at spammers, but to get angry because someone posted about the hazards of being the only woman on the Argo? That seemed like a severe overreaction to me.

So part of me said, “Sheesh! Some people are just way too touchy! I sure didn’t read anything inappropriate in that guy’s comments.” Then another part of me said, “There may be something going on here that I don’t know about.”

I’m not sure where I’m going with this, except to just share these mundane pointless thoughts… and maybe to ask what you think.

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Yeah, but what’s the deal with Smurfette?

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So…this ISN’T about the PBS documentary series, then?

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I thought her “rants” were interesting

Welcome To The Official Home Page Of Voice Actress Amy Howard Wilson
My Rant Page

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I couldn’t agree more! And at the same time, let’s revive “aviatrix,” “executrix” and all the other sex-based terms for jobs which have no real reason to exist!

Although I actually like words like “aviatrix” and “executrix”…

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Good point about the rants, astro. While I do agree with much of what she’s said, the phrasing of her rants does make her sound rather… angry.

And touchy. At least, that’s the general vibe which I get.

So, what’s the deal with her anger at someone pointing out the dangers of being the sole woman on a year-long military mission? It is just me, or isn’t that a perfectly normal thing to be concerned about?

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Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my scene now. – Sunset Boulevard

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Looking at the site, it doesn’t appear that she’s done a whole lot since Star Blazers. I suppose if that were my one and only brush with success, I’d be a bit touchy about it, too.

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That’s INAPPROPRIATE, and NOT FUNNY at all. Careful before I report you for SPAMMING. :wink:

If she were here, she’d get pitted and banned so fast. Too bad. That would be kind of fun.

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Well, after you’ve been a Herald of Galactus, it’s kind of hard to find work. Just ask the Silver Surfer.

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My guess would be that she’s been traumatized by some deeply sicko fanfic.

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But how deeply would she have to identify with her character for that to become personal? Let’s face it, she didn’t create the character, nor write the lines it speaks. She provides the voice.
And maybe this fanfic somehow encompasses illegitimate children running wild in a studio pretending to be actors, throwing water “baloons” at each other.

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Maybe there’s a reason why she’s only a voice actress…

Vlad/Igor

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Hell, I’ve been deeply traumatized by sicko fanfic, despite the fact that I had nothing to do with the production of any cartoon, ever. (Tongue partially in cheek. Judging from the rants, she is a piece of work. But perhaps the fanfic did it to her!!! The horror! The horror!)

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There is a more reasonable explanation.

Let’s say that after the comment that you saw, other people followed up with the predictable off color lame jokes a crude remarks. She got annoyed and deleted the whole thread. I would be this has happened before. Every time the subject gets brought up, the lameness is sure to follow so she always deletes the threads. Inevitably, trolls will start to bring up the topic on purpose just to be asses knowing what will follow. It would make you touchy after a while, no?

Disclaimer: I have never heard of this lady or the Nova cartoon.

Haj

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The thing is, it wasn’t a discussion board, so there were no threads. It was just a guestbook, and those things don’t typically lend themselves to extended discussions.

Also, it doesn’t look like her guestbook gets a lot of traffic, anyway. Heck, just two dozen posts down, someone says, “I look forward to seeing you at the AWA in September/03!” This means that she only get about two non-spam messages per month – which makes it unlikely that there has been much by way of discussion.

Also, the text which she deleted (and quoted) was pretty PG in nature. It just said that there must have been pretty hazardous to just have one woman on a ship full of men. It was worded rather circumspectly, and doesn’t necessarily imply a sexual thing. (Like I said in the OP, the social competition alone can make it a pretty troublesome environment.)

So no, I seriously doubt that any sort of guestbook discussion had anything to do with this.

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The cartoon was Utchu Senkan Yamato (Starship Yamato), which was produced in 1979 and was shown on American TV around the same time as Star Blazers. Nova was one of the characters, and apparently the only female one (funny, I thought there were more). So, she’s getting worked up over a question about a character she did 25 years ago. Granted, it’s one of her only roles, but come on.

To be honest, I’m not sure what the guy who wrote that first letter was concerned about. Multiple guys competing for the attention of a single woman is a standard theme in most anime. If he’s worried about how this would play out in real life, then I think he’s cherry-picking his demands for realism (the first warp-speed spacecraft is built from a sunken battleship pulled from the bottom of the ocean, and the show is unrealistic because there’s only one female crew member?).

Oh well. I always prefered Danguard Ace and Battle of the Planets.

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Whatever you do don’t ask her if she any tentacle sex with aliens- Just don’t!!

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I don’t think he was complaining that it was unrealistic. If you look at his wording (as quoted by Ms. Wilson herself), it sounded more like “Y’know, if you think about it, this was really a powderkeg just waiting to explode…” More of an insight than a complaint, to my mind.

And while having multiple guys vying for one woman’s affection is standard fare, I think the point was that having them all on a single ship for an entire year makes the situation worse.

Anyway, I’d liken this to the casual speculations people might have had about the male castaways competing for Ginger and Mary Ann, after months of being trapped on that island. It’s something which people think about, even without any tawdry sexual insinuations.

At any rate, I think we all agree that her reaction was a bit… unusual.

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The funny thing is her being the only woman on the Argo did cause problems. Wildstar and Venture fought over her more than once.