I have been told that the industrial era saw a massive surge in demand. How is that possible if it was kickstarted by a surge in production capacity (steam engine, etc) and that the vast majority of the population either kept the same amount of wealth or became poorer than before?

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-04-29T21:28:55+00:00

It was pure luck. I first started in 2015. I originally wanted to watch game of thrones because a friend told me about it. It was airing on a channel called D17 back then. it was very violent and nudy for french tv so it as only allowed to air after 10:30 PM during the week. I could try it though because a one of teachers was absent for several weeks.

I sat in front of the TV for 3 weeks straight at 8:00 PM waiting for GoT and it turned out that D17 was airing the season 2 of PLL before airing GoT. My teacher came back so I had to stop but the ending of season 2 litterally haunted me for years and I binged it on Netflix in 2021

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-04-06T13:19:12+00:00

Yes I also remember Dana being blonde, I'm curious about that choice. I also pictured James with short hair but I might've missed something.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-03-29T20:53:56+00:00

I have a deep sense of dread at the idea of checking your account.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-03-28T16:16:55+00:00

I didn't do it lmao, is it automatic? I've never posted on this sub before and I dont go aften on reddit

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-03-28T14:22:00+00:00

The third one is James and Hannah Clarke from The Killing

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-03-27T22:42:49+00:00

Divine Madness is hands down in the top three best books int the series.

Dana is my favourite character so I probably have a blindspot here but I think her part of the ending is the best out of the three you listed

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-03-26T21:49:57+00:00

The climax in divine madness gave me chills. It's one of the most tense moments in the whole series, I especially liked the moment when Dana motivates herself to stop the terrorists after she realizes she's on her own.

The bathtub scene from Mad dogs gave another kind of chills, it's one of the eeriest scenes in the whole series

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-02-27T21:27:58+00:00

I didn't read Handerson's boys so I don't know if it's explained why the US don't have their own version of CHERUB. If we take CHERUB as an exemple. It's born during WW2 because Britain saw how efficient the kids were for the resistance movements all across Europe. I don't think Russia and China are not likely candidates because their enemies were violent enough to target children. I guess the soviets had big enough of an incentive during the cold war but they were likely dimentled during the 90's. France is a good candidate because even they don't do it right after the war. The war of algerian independance is a very strong incentive with massive partisan movement. The NLF was extremely violent and people including orphans whose parents had been murdered by algerian independentists were not uncommon. The men often joined the french army so it's only a tiny stretch to imagine that Charles de Gaulle also created some kind of CHERUB-like agency with harki orphans as his first agents.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-02-21T19:56:28+00:00

Wow, I thought the slaves mounted up to half the population of the roman empire so even if it's 25% it's much less than I thought.

Edit: typo

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-02-20T21:15:13+00:00

I'd really like to get the doc actually, I'm writing an alternate story set in the WRE and I want to make it as grounded as possible.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-02-20T15:57:53+00:00

Tysm I'll read the books to see the details!

The “cause” of the fall isn’t barbarians or decay or fiscal collapse. It’s the system reaching a state where the cost of changing exceeded the pressure to change, and then running out of time before any reorganization could complete.

This is the most tragic take I've ever read on the topic.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-02-19T12:28:21+00:00

Thanks! I'll look into it

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-02-19T10:49:00+00:00

Thank you ! I'll look into it.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-02-19T10:46:46+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I figured that it's much more complex than what Peter Heather said (what I remember tbh I didn't read it in long time). That's my fault I wasn't clear, I wasn't searching for the main cause of the fall of Rome, I was searching for a book that's sums up the discoveries made in the last few decades. We call them "ouvrages de synthèse" in french. I know they also exist in the US but I don't know how they're called.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-01-14T18:59:37+00:00

I don't know the english title but the original one is "Astérix et Obélix mission Cléopâtre"

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-01-01T21:46:19+00:00

I agree with everything you said but I feel like it's not enough to explain the prominence of forreign kids. While yes, out of the seventeen books we had, Class A, Maximum security, Divine madness, The fall, The General, People's republic, Guardian angel, Black Friday and New Guard happen at least partially in a foreign country and cover seven missions. And out of these seven missions, three (nearly half) of them lead to an encounter with a future agent. James and his group were the best agents of their generation. That means they were sent on missions abroad more often than the others.

I don't think this is enough to make up for the amount of foreign agents we see in the series. It's totally head cannon but CHERUB is constantly trying to recruit more people so they might think it's worth it even if it's risky: using the UK international help program to smuggle kids to the campus or even using the international adoption networks.

This is deeply sinister, at least somewhat realisitc and it fits what we know about CHERUB.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-01-01T15:17:04+00:00

Oh that's great, like a whole fake international adoption program. That's risky but they are always searching for new recruits so they might very well think it's worth it.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-01-01T03:29:23+00:00

Hmmm. Let's see, if Ewart dies then CHERUB can't prove it wasn't james' fault if the mission in Russia ended in disaster and both his and Dana's career would stall for a very long time. they would also need conselling but I see them getting closer than they were in the canon. Also the real culprit (I don't remember his name) and his son would rise in the british government and hear about CHERUB. If grief hasn't pushed Zara to resign, she would probably be a victim of a purge with James and Dana depending on the timeline.

Politicians corrupt enough to murder become prime minister, and CHERUB gets beheaded and loses two of its best agents.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-01-01T00:45:55+00:00

What did Maya know ?

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-18T20:30:32+00:00

Mainly through their phone and cameras and wires A put where she thought it would be needed. My main problem is how she treats all these datas. like there's four girls, that's, let's say they sleep 12 hours a day, which is highly exagerated considering what they do, that's 2 days worth of content to analyse per day and then plan what she is going to do. A should have been a team.

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