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Post by Yin on Nov 4, 2009 8:05:45 GMT
Ah! I... I-IAnd here I thought I was done with this. Ay well. Robot gaze, though?
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Post by jesheckah on Nov 4, 2009 8:13:48 GMT
I want the last panel as a background I never thought emotion could be so well conveyed in a robot.
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Post by chiparoo on Nov 4, 2009 8:25:18 GMT
So, Annie is "attractive" to spirits, while Kat is "attractive" to robots.
The Spiritual and the Scientific. This trend is carried everywhere.
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Post by Nicer Atom on Nov 4, 2009 12:31:02 GMT
Say, have Kat's eyes ever been shown as anything other than solid black before today?
I'm sure someone has said it before, but I'm guessing Kat will be this generation's "Diego", after the position remained empty for many years (you know, the reason for the downgraded later models).
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Post by Jiminiminy on Nov 4, 2009 12:56:45 GMT
Gah! The 113! It's back!
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Post by TBeholder on Nov 4, 2009 13:56:46 GMT
Oops. Really. Didn't noticed it right away. |
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Post by wanderer on Nov 4, 2009 14:15:11 GMT
Was it here before? Is this one of those 80 bazillion little symbols that have been hidden throughout the comic which I never notice until someone points them out? |
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Post by Yin on Nov 4, 2009 14:33:36 GMT
I believe there's a thread somewhere, but just to illustrate, Margo's scarf in Power Station has the number 113.
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Post by Seth Thresher on Nov 4, 2009 14:40:21 GMT
I like this comic. It's kinda sweet =3
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Post by the bandit on Nov 4, 2009 14:46:29 GMT
I admire today's juxtaposition of the warm-fuzzy comic and the low brow comment.
Is it just me or does Kat look younger on this page?
heh heh heh
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Post by tyler on Nov 4, 2009 15:19:57 GMT
113, as far as I know has more meaning to Tom himself than the Comic. It's a thing he does, but it's not a thing that has plot relevance.
Also, I do like the Annie:spirits::Kat:robots thing. It's pretty groovy.
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Post by xanbcoo on Nov 4, 2009 17:07:27 GMT
Scientific test number 1: Tap it
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Post by judgedeadd on Nov 4, 2009 17:13:11 GMT
See, guys? The Sky Watcher's function is to predict the weather. Nothing mysterious here. Then again, why doesn't the Court rely on outside weather forecasts? Some possibilities: - There is no TV or internet in Court (there might be a shield or something that blocks signals in/out of the facility, to prevent outside knowledge of the Court.) - The weather over the Court is so anomalous that outside forecasts cannot possibly predict it accurately. - The Court's robots are more accurate than the weather forecasts from the outside world. - The Court itself is not interested in the robot's forecasts (remember, the robots form a separate society of their own for the most part). The robots do them simply because it's something they've been programmed to do. |
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Post by violet on Nov 4, 2009 18:28:46 GMT
Also, the Court may provide its sensor data to the UK's weather service.
I do not see the 113.
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Post by xanbcoo on Nov 4, 2009 18:45:55 GMT
Second panel, microscope.
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Post by wynne on Nov 4, 2009 20:26:14 GMT
Someone's in luuuuv. And by someone I mean Sky Watcher there. Soon he'll be bursting out the sonnets.
I wonder, though, what his official criteria for an "angel" is.
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Post by fuzzyone on Nov 4, 2009 20:39:04 GMT
Well, the Greek word Angel is derived from means 'Messenger'...
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Nov 4, 2009 21:16:05 GMT
I think he's probably talking about the less precise "so good and beautiful and all-around amazing that God must have sent her to us".
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Post by cantabile on Nov 4, 2009 21:22:03 GMT
There's a special place in my heart for robots who are poetic and articulate.
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Post by nikita on Nov 4, 2009 21:24:40 GMT
God must have sent her to us So.. who is the robot's god? The creator - Diego? |
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Post by judgedeadd on Nov 4, 2009 21:28:07 GMT
Oh dear, NOW I get this comic. Thanks to a guy at TVTropes, I now noticed that the magnifying glass on panel 4 looks like a halo. I'm slapping myself silly for not noticing this.
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Post by tyler on Nov 4, 2009 21:41:41 GMT
Usually Halos are depicted above or behind someone's head. Halo around the eye? Not so much.
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Post by Casey on Nov 4, 2009 21:55:46 GMT
Maybe the guy on TVTropes should explain where the "halo" is on this page. |
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Post by judgedeadd on Nov 4, 2009 22:24:38 GMT
I still stand my point.
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Post by Snes on Nov 4, 2009 22:28:51 GMT
I admire today's juxtaposition of the warm-fuzzy comic and the low brow comment. Is it just me or does Kat look younger on this page? heh heh heh Ohmagosh guyz, this chapter is a flashback!!!!!1!1!!! Yeah, I suppose the magnifying glass could be seen as a halo. Or maybe Kat's 'angelic' qualities stem from the fact that she was able to determine Sky Watcher's function just by inspecting his antennae. Only an angel would have such an innate knowledge of robot-kind! |
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Post by the bandit on Nov 4, 2009 22:43:15 GMT
Angels are beautiful and higher up the ladder.
EDIT: Yeah, the blinding glow doesn't hurt, either.
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Post by Ulysses on Nov 4, 2009 22:43:23 GMT
The halo analogy is good, but I think that the purpose of the lens in a creative sense was to cast an ephemeral glow on Kat's face, very similar to a halo but not exactly, if you see what I mean. I dunno, it's just how I see it.
I would agree with Pyro in that the robots casting Kat as an angel probably stems from her unnatural affinity with technology, but the glowing microscope probably didn't hurt. We know that the robots all have very human personalities - perhaps they were also programmed with certain human cultural images e.g. angels are glowy and have halos and uncommon knowledge. We haven't see Kat displaying anything that could be interpreted as a robot exclusive image of an angel, only a human exclusive image, so human cultural image programming is feasible.
Gah, long words. I sound like Mr Dictionary.
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Post by Jiminiminy on Nov 5, 2009 0:19:17 GMT
The easiest assumption would be that the robot AI's as advanced as Robot's would perhaps have been directly made to emulate a pre-existing mind. If Diego used his own mind, that'd probably explain the young-hating strain and the Jeanne-obsession strain, but that's not really the main focus of this. Well, it kind of is. That is, if the mind used was particularly religious, perhaps their image of an angel was similar to how Kat looks. On a second note, if the mind emulated was Diego's, consider Jeanne's stance to Kat's on these pages. Seems similar in base build, less so the details, but still their posture. That might just be me though. If so, maybe their obsession with Jeanne spread to women (and somewhat feminine men) who looked similar to her, much like a person might find a specific type of appearence to be more attractive than another. Just talking out loud though. |
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Post by todd on Nov 5, 2009 0:29:54 GMT
the mind used was particularly religious, That might tie in with the robot horse reciting from "Paradise Lost", a strongly Christian epic poem. (Though we don't know if that's the only poem he ever recites from - or whether he chose it for its religious elements or its role as "classic literature".) |
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Post by Jiminiminy on Nov 5, 2009 0:51:24 GMT
the mind used was particularly religious, That might tie in with the robot horse reciting from "Paradise Lost", a strongly Christian epic poem. (Though we don't know if that's the only poem he ever recites from - or whether he chose it for its religious elements or its role as "classic literature".) Ah yes, I had forgotten about good ol' Model H. Maybe I should recite quotes from epic poems more often... But Model H is a different model, so maybe a different base mind? Lotta things you can't really know. |
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