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Post by todd on Jan 17, 2011 23:16:32 GMT
Is this your solution for Israel too? I'm not enough of an expert on Middle East politics to answer that. But I do think that the Court and the Wood are like matter and anti-matter. Each harmless by itself, but put them together and disaster.
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Post by fronzel on Jan 17, 2011 23:43:08 GMT
It's just important to remind people the court is the one that gets all the face time. The forest only seems preferable because of how little is known of the inner workings. Everything is beautiful from a distance, they say.
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Post by todd on Jan 18, 2011 0:22:07 GMT
I remember that at first, the forest seemed the darker, more menacing place - especially after Ysengrin duped Robot and had him possessed by one of the shadow-people. It wasn't until we found out about Diego and the other Founders murdering Jeanne that the Court started seeming more corrupt.
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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Jan 18, 2011 20:02:21 GMT
Ah to be young and innocent readers once again. When the court was just a silly place with silly things in it. To be explored at leisure.
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Post by todd on Jan 18, 2011 23:20:38 GMT
But those days are gone for good. Even if the Court found some way to etherically erase Annie and Kat's memories of all the dark secrets she'd discovered about Gunnerkrigg's past (and present) - even if it got rid of them and the protagonist role shifted to a couple of new girls newly enrolled in Year 7 and suspecting nothing - we, the readers know. And after what we know, we can never think of Gunnerkrigg as just some eccentric "Wayside School"-type place again.
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Post by fronzel on Jan 18, 2011 23:41:16 GMT
Even if the Court found some way to etherically erase Annie and Kat's memories of all the dark secrets she'd discovered about Gunnerkrigg's past (and present)... You know, we have no reason to believe that besides the robots, who apparently generally don't talk about it, anyone other than Annie, Kat, Parlay and Smitty know about Jeanne and her end. Jones doesn't know, and I get the impression she knows many things. In the film Diego's robot made, we hear Sir Young saying that the records of Jeanne and "the plan" will be destroyed, so how could any current member of the Court's apparatus wish to suppress knowledge they don't know about? We have no idea how Anja or Jones or Eggs or the Headmaster would react to this. And by "the present" you refer to Surma tricking Renard, I'd argue for that being a gray secret rather than a dark one.
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Post by todd on Jan 19, 2011 0:32:38 GMT
I probably should have phrased that a bit differently, but my point is that even if Annie and Kat somehow forgot what they'd learned about Jeanne and the rest, the readers can't (except through ordinary forgetfulness, which can always be cured by a visit to the archives). We've lost *our* innocence about the Court (assuming we ever had it; it does look creepy even in the first chapter).
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Post by Per on Jan 19, 2011 7:28:42 GMT
That seems to have been the point of S B-C's post.
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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Jan 20, 2011 6:49:06 GMT
Listen to Buff Cookies, for they are wise behind their years.
Except some are just crazy. Don't tell them I said that though.
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Post by ecopenny on Dec 3, 2011 5:55:48 GMT
What frightened me here was how direct Coyote was in this exchange. No exclamations, no prancing, no attempts to soften the severity of what he was saying. I also wonder why Coyote would have to interrupt the discussion to tell Annie this. Couldn't he have done it after the discussion when they were alone? He could have chased away Ysengrin, or maybe Ysengrin wouldn't have asked questions as shown here: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=829. So the fact that Jones saw Annie suddenly change her posture and clutch her hand for no reason was either inconsequential to Coyote's plan or part of it.
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