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Post by blackmantha on Nov 5, 2010 19:42:41 GMT
I realized something; we haven't seen our mysterious birds in quite a while. If I'm not mistaken, we haven't seen a living one since Dobranoc, Gamma. And since then only a dead one in The Fangs of Summertime, another on the treaty page, and they years with nothing but a mention in S1, and a drawing in Skywatcher and Angel.
Maybe it's just a mystery that's nowhere near revelation date, but I'm kind of missing the little things. To me, they represent what the Court is like; both technology and something like a living thing, of unknown but definite purpose, and no one knows where they came from. The site's favicon is a "G", but if there was space, it should have been a TicToc.
So are they really missing, or is it just that Tom hasn't thought about them in a while? They were all over the place at the beginning, and there were a few scenes at the bridge where I would have expected to see them.
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Post by strangebloke on Nov 5, 2010 20:41:01 GMT
I was wondering about them too. I mostly figured that Tom stopped drawing them in every third scene because he got sick of drawing them.
Or they just have stopped watching Annie for the meantime. I have to think that they were watching Annie specifically, protecting her. (of course, my theory was that they were the work of Anthony carver...)
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Post by jayne on Nov 5, 2010 21:42:08 GMT
I think its understood they're always there somewhere watching so no one takes notice of them anymore. Unless they're sitting on a lamp on the bridge, they probably just blend in with all the other gray things.
*Unless you're Zimmy who can't ignore them if she tried.
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Post by todd on Nov 5, 2010 22:23:35 GMT
Maybe they're still holding themselves apart, mourning the loss of the one who "died" while rescuing Annie.
(Many things that were prominent in the early days of the strip seem to have faded out a bit. I've mentioned before that the school uniforms appear less often in the recent chapters than they did in the early ones.)
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Post by Rex on Nov 6, 2010 1:37:07 GMT
I think it's because the cast have simply stopped noticing them, and that they're a mystery tied to a very big plot point (considering that they seem to be mechanical birds that predate the Court). That said, my wild spec view on them is that they're what the Court's blinker stone symbol is based on.
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Post by ryos on Nov 6, 2010 5:09:41 GMT
I agree that it's likely just a case of Tome having told us everything he needs to tell us about them for a while yet, and continuing to emphasize them would just be repeating himself.
My largely unsubstantiated suspicion is that we'll learn more about them when Anthony contacts Antimony, which won't be for another in-world year at least.
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Post by Afalstein on Nov 12, 2010 23:20:27 GMT
They were referenced in the sign the one robot was carrying. I think they're around, they're just so omnipresent that no one really pays much attention.
The TicTocs are kinda a drama indicator--when they appear or start acting up, you KNOW something big is going down. If they appeared more than they did, they'd lose half their mystery.
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Post by evilanagram on Nov 12, 2010 23:34:50 GMT
The TicTocs are kinda a drama indicator--when they appear or start acting up, you KNOW something big is going down. If they appeared more than they did, they'd lose half their mystery. Exactly. The lack of TicTocs is how you can tell that chapter 30 is meant to be light-hearted throughout. |
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Post by jayne on Nov 12, 2010 23:51:06 GMT
The TicTocs are kinda a drama indicator--when they appear or start acting up, you KNOW something big is going down. If they appeared more than they did, they'd lose half their mystery. Exactly. The lack of TicTocs is how you can tell that chapter 30 is meant to be light-hearted throughout. Jeanne scares the rust off the tictocs...they were hiding in chapter 30!  |
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