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Post by Fhqwhgads on Mar 6, 2012 0:25:03 GMT
And I defs think the message was some kinda crazy damn mind control spell... THIS THIS THIS BLEEARRGHHRRNNKSDLGHSDFKLGJHSD oh god I am so creeped out by this scene right now *shudder*
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Post by warrl on Mar 6, 2012 0:41:09 GMT
Also, I am guessing a trace using conventional means just failed. Gonna try etheric means now? I wasn't thinking it failed. I was thinking it worked just fine but... (choose 1) a) it returned a location that Mr. D doesn't think is possible. Such as in orbit. b) it returned a location that Mr. D recognizes and doesn't want Annie to know about (yet?). However, conventional tracing tends to work better on a call still in process. Particularly when you're dealing with the cell-phone network. Sending the cell phone to the other end of the call by etheric means and then having it call your phone could at least establish where that other end is. Can you then get the phone back?
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Post by Serenissima on Mar 6, 2012 0:46:51 GMT
However, conventional tracing tends to work better on a call still in process. Particularly when you're dealing with the cell-phone network. Sending the cell phone to the other end of the call by etheric means and then having it call your phone could at least establish where that other end is. Can you then get the phone back? I like this idea. A lot. The rest of this page just confuses me, though... in a good way. Tom, you tease.
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Post by q3 on Mar 6, 2012 4:40:23 GMT
Then again, it could be the call to summon Cthulu. That's about the only mythology this comic doesn't have. Lovecraft's mythology wouldn't fit "Gunnerkrigg Court" anyway. Its core tenet was that the universe was a blind, uncaring, indifferent place with no purpose, with humans just one tiny, insignificant part of it; the Great Old Ones were symbolic of this indifference. This wouldn't match the atmosphere of "Gunnerkrigg Court", which is far more hopeful. Nah, Cthulhu is the psychopomp of Gol-Shogegs. He, too, had a huge crush on Surma back in the day.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 6, 2012 7:56:30 GMT
If Tom was going to just easily tell us what Anthony said, then he wouldn't have ended the chapter the way he did. Yup. Like with Jones. And I defs think the message was some kinda crazy damn mind control spell . Anthony probably wants Annie to repeat it and turn the whole Court into zombie slaves. If you want to construe something grimdark, why not to at least try and fit it in? Say, these nice people want to cure Annie from her little problem once and for all, without bothering to disturb the poor child by the describing it (and discussing the implications that led to her last freakout). And not too choosy to which degree, obviously. See? It's easy. Hey, at least, "the Court is monstrous" and "Anthony is monstrous" fanfactions and a few shippers would be happy. Of course, this would one way or another lead to an empty grand finale: Annie starting a battle royale and/or leaving to Gillitie Wood (whether to prevent the meddling or in order to transform) permanently pretty much guarantees almost every single plot thread seen so far will never be resolved... I won't put it past Tom whether as an overengineered prank or merely to make a point, but he's not that cruel as an author. Nah, Cthulhu is the psychopomp of Gol-Shogegs. He, too, had a huge crush on Surma back in the day. I doubt your guess will win a gunner-cookie, but it certainly deserves a partyhat.
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Post by csj on Mar 6, 2012 13:58:25 GMT
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Post by Georgie L on Mar 6, 2012 19:00:27 GMT
Hey, at least, "the Court is monstrous" and "Anthony is monstrous" fanfactions and a few shippers would be happy. I'm confused as to why those fanfactions even exist anymore, The Court being "monstrous" thing was disproven by the girl who works in the veterinary centre (whose name has now slipped my mind) and Anthony is maybe repressed and distant, but I've seen no evidence of him being evil, in fact he truly loved Surma and was willing to work none-stop to try and save her. I don't think an evil person would do that.
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Post by Max on Mar 6, 2012 19:28:01 GMT
I'm confused as to why those fanfactions even exist anymore, The Court being "monstrous" thing was disproven by the girl who works in the veterinary centre (whose name has now slipped my mind) and Anthony is maybe repressed and distant, but I've seen no evidence of him being evil, in fact he truly loved Surma and was willing to work none-stop to try and save her. I don't think an evil person would do that. Pssshh, since when has canon ever stopped a fandom?
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Post by atteSmythe on Mar 6, 2012 19:55:40 GMT
I'm confused as to why those fanfactions even exist anymore, The Court being "monstrous" thing was disproven by the girl who works in the veterinary centre (whose name has now slipped my mind) and Anthony is maybe repressed and distant, but I've seen no evidence of him being evil, in fact he truly loved Surma and was willing to work none-stop to try and save her. I don't think an evil person would do that. An evil person would absolutely destroy (things, people, institutions) to save what he loved. It's a selfish thing, especially as Surma had by all appearances accepted the inevitability of her death. Has he? I don't know. But I do remember that look he shot Annie in the flashback.
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Post by Amethyst on Mar 6, 2012 22:09:13 GMT
"FUS RO DAH"
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Post by Kriselia on Mar 7, 2012 0:18:55 GMT
The blue light made me think "Brinnie?!", but the sound effect is different. Still, it would be awesome if she showed up. For some reason I had the exact same train of thought. I'm gonna throw a wild guess that they have a way of contacting Brinnie, and he's (for reasons unknown) doing just that in the last panel ;D
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Post by basser on Mar 7, 2012 2:38:50 GMT
Hey, at least, "the Court is monstrous" and "Anthony is monstrous" fanfactions and a few shippers would be happy. I'm confused as to why those fanfactions even exist anymore, The Court being "monstrous" thing was disproven by the girl who works in the veterinary centre (whose name has now slipped my mind) and Anthony is maybe repressed and distant, but I've seen no evidence of him being evil, in fact he truly loved Surma and was willing to work none-stop to try and save her. I don't think an evil person would do that. I'm not really on either side of this but I feel like I should point out that cruelty is still cruelty no matter the motivation. Anthony and the Court can still be "monstrous" (in the sense that they do harm to innocents) without being evil in their intentions. Paz didn't actually disprove anything about the Court, she just pointed out that a conglomerate entity made up of thinking individuals has no concrete moral stance. We already know that the Court has committed atrocities. But those atrocities were instigated and carried out by the subjective motivations of individuals, not the Court itself. Nevertheless the cruelty occurred within the bounds of the Court's organizational hierarchy and so the Court can be judged by them, and depending on what acts you choose to examine it can be judged to be evil or good. Paz reminded Kat that just because she was a part of an organization she considers evil doesn't mean that she herself is evil, and that acts of kindness and generosity can be committed under the Court's name just as easily as acts of violence. All it takes is someone willing to nurture the good within the system. As for Anthony you can't really argue that he hasn't had a negative impact on his daughter's quality of life. He's neglectful and cruel to her (abandoning your child without a word after the death of her mother is absolute cruelty.) It may turn out that he has good reasons for doing these things, in which case he wouldn't be evil because his intent wasn't to cause harm. However the fact still remains that his actions caused significant emotional distress to an innocent child, which is considered monstrous by most people. TL;DR - being a dick is being a dick.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 7, 2012 11:13:00 GMT
I'm confused as to why those fanfactions even exist anymore, Next time you'll wonder why there are any shippers. Worldviews differ and wishful thinking is just here. An evil person would absolutely destroy (things, people, institutions) to save what he loved. It's a selfish thing ...and of course there's always Greater Good on top of the food chain. As for Anthony you can't really argue that he hasn't had a negative impact on his daughter's quality of life. Well, obviously. Though by getting lost he minimized the problem. I suspect that's the intended result, in part, because he's a medic, so "Can't do better than nothing? Don't!" is an expectable approach. The bottom line is that Gunnerkrigg doesn't have leering disney villains. Or even as much as a rampage for the greater good, so far. Ol' Grin played rabid once, but that's about it. The worst was Diego and he did rather apparently belong to a room with soft walls painted in nice soothing colours. (don't pull the Boxbot's horribleness into this, since Bb-1 was created by Diego )
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