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	<title>Comments on: A (Perhaps Unnecessary) Guide to Oracle&#039;s Formative Years</title>
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		<title>By: KushCash</title>
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		<dc:creator>KushCash</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great article, man!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article, man!</p>
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		<title>By: Patent Dragon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Patent Dragon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Consider that comment seconded (thirded?), Patrick!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Consider that comment seconded (thirded?), Patrick!</p>
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		<title>By: Rebis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rebis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Patrick said it all!
(Nice post, Brian.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patrick said it all!<br />
(Nice post, Brian.)</p>
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		<title>By: Patrick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oracle is a really, really brilliant salvaging of a character, and it&#039;s a credit to Ostrander and Yale for coming up with that direction for Barbara.

I wish more creators -- instead of doing the obvious and eventually returning things to the status quo -- would instead take major developments, even those they don&#039;t like, and try to think up interesting places to take them. Lots of times we see major changes reversed out of a sense of inevitability as much as anything else, and I think that&#039;s silly. If Ostrander and Yale hadn&#039;t taken Barbara Gordon in the direction they did, it&#039;s likely the character would just be walking around like nothing had happened today, and I think her, and the DCU, would be worse off for it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oracle is a really, really brilliant salvaging of a character, and it's a credit to Ostrander and Yale for coming up with that direction for Barbara.</p>
<p>I wish more creators -- instead of doing the obvious and eventually returning things to the status quo -- would instead take major developments, even those they don't like, and try to think up interesting places to take them. Lots of times we see major changes reversed out of a sense of inevitability as much as anything else, and I think that's silly. If Ostrander and Yale hadn't taken Barbara Gordon in the direction they did, it's likely the character would just be walking around like nothing had happened today, and I think her, and the DCU, would be worse off for it.</p>
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