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Post by CoyoteReborn on Oct 8, 2014 7:00:27 GMT
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Post by sapientcoffee on Oct 8, 2014 7:01:36 GMT
Hate to break it to ya, ship, but you're a whale.
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 8, 2014 7:03:30 GMT
In some strange way, this is so overwhelmingly romantic. Somehow. I must echo what someone said in the last thread: good ends, bad means. Though I doubt a physical change will help endear the Ship much to Lindsey if it comes with distress to the students. also dammit I let myself be distracted at the stroke of the hour! curses! |
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Post by fwip on Oct 8, 2014 7:03:40 GMT
I like the clean design of this page. It's really a stark contrast to the last couple of pages. Also, this trip is made every year, apparently. (Just doing my job, stating the obvious.  ) So the infatuation isn't a new thing at all, so problematic as it may be, it probably isn't shallow. In addition, in the first panel, I wonder if he's actually creating small models of the ship and Lindsey on the ribbon thing, or if Tom just chose to portray it that way in a composite panel? |
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 8, 2014 7:05:03 GMT
Also, what do you all think about Tom's text? I'm curious.
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Post by fwip on Oct 8, 2014 7:07:18 GMT
I think he's referring to us underestimating the ship. Love can make you act in strange ways, I guess.
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 8, 2014 7:09:09 GMT
Love can make you act in strange ways, I guess. Ah, you know the Machine Gospels, sir!  EDIT: I just noticed I account for >1/3 of the posts on this page, and 1/4 of the users. (So far.) Where is everyone?? |
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Post by noone3 on Oct 8, 2014 7:12:38 GMT
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Post by CoyoteReborn on Oct 8, 2014 7:12:46 GMT
Scared off by my terrifyingly glorious (and gloriously terrifying) presence, perhaps? Yeah, that's probably it. |
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Post by zirka on Oct 8, 2014 8:07:04 GMT
Ha, the ship says "She does not see me for who I truly am!" I bet Lindsey had a much better opinion of the ship all those years than she does now. She will now see the ship for who he truly is - a manipulative jerk with serious emotional problems.
Yeah...Seriously, WHO put him up to all this though? I didn't think robots were capable of so much drama. Coyote, I'm looking at you. It's always your fault SOMEHOW.
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Post by alexsl on Oct 8, 2014 8:10:24 GMT
If figure 1, erm, the first panel is to scale, then Lindsey is truly gigantic. I would not have thought she was supposed to be that huge based on her previous appearances.
Kat's expression appears to indicate that she didn't quite get it the first time when the ship mentioned its plan.
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Post by ed1300 on Oct 8, 2014 8:25:42 GMT
Ha, the ship says "She does not see me for who I truly am!" I bet Lindsey had a much better opinion of the ship all those years than she does now. She will now see the ship for who he truly is - a manipulative jerk with serious emotional problems. Yeah...Seriously, WHO put him up to all this though? I didn't think robots were capable of so much drama. Coyote, I'm looking at you. It's always your fault SOMEHOW. Then you've never met their Creator. |
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Post by Fishy on Oct 8, 2014 8:49:23 GMT
So, what do you suppose the chances are that one of the girls can just say that Lindsey is married, the ship responds "Oh, terribly sorry then, you're free to go," and we see the end of chapter symbol.
Pretty low, I bet, but weirder things have happened.
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Post by jasmijn on Oct 8, 2014 9:13:24 GMT
"M'lady will truly see me"
*Ship tips his fedora*
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Post by Angry Individual on Oct 8, 2014 9:54:33 GMT
Honestly, I think Kat will go with the plan but the fact that Lindsey is married will fail to be mentioned.
Until she, herself, mentions it. And then you've got a organic ship who may or may not go into a murderous rampage because his love will never come to fruitition. And then the army of bots will descend, riding on a great white wolf.
And they will tackle down the mighty sea best. And then Lindsey will punch them.
And then they will go after the ship.
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Post by Elysium on Oct 8, 2014 10:33:54 GMT
Turns out she already see it for what it truly is. a ship |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Oct 8, 2014 10:45:49 GMT
Looks like someone else want to more than they are, or at least more than they appear to be. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1377Why was there so much support for Horned Rabbit, but not much support for ShipBot? Oh yeah, accosting an entire year of students versus cute and furry. |
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Post by todd on Oct 8, 2014 10:49:36 GMT
Why was there so much support for Horned Rabbit, but not much support for ShipBot? Oh yeah, accosting an entire year of students versus cute and furry. Yes. The rabbit didn't put anyone else in danger in its request to become human. |
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Post by asyetunnamed on Oct 8, 2014 10:52:17 GMT
"I love her but she does not see me for who I truly am... so I came up with a convoluted scheme involving kidnapping an entire school year, forcing one of the kids to bend reality so that another kid can turn me into a flesh/metal hybrid! Then she'll see the real me and return my love!
"What, she's married? That will not stand in the way of our true love. We truly belong together"
I see no flaws in this logic. Ignore the approaching sirens and expect to receive the restraining order in 2 - 3 days. I find the ship's reasoning less romantic and more creepy stalker like.
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Post by todd on Oct 8, 2014 10:53:05 GMT
EDIT: I just noticed I account for >1/3 of the posts on this page, and 1/4 of the users. (So far.) Where is everyone?? Most of the readers may not have as much to say, since the page re-establishes what we already knew (the ship's motive for wanting Kat to make it flesh) - little new information or new turns in the story. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Oct 8, 2014 11:47:47 GMT
"I love her but she does not see me for who I truly am... so I came up with a convoluted scheme involving kidnapping an entire school year, forcing one of the kids to bend reality so that another kid can turn me into a flesh/metal hybrid! Then she'll see the real me and return my love! "What, she's married? That will not stand in the way of our true love. We truly belong together" I see no flaws in this logic. Ignore the approaching sirens and expect to receive the restraining order in 2 - 3 days. I find the ship's reasoning less romantic and more creepy stalker like. NOW she's he's thinking like a forest person! www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=855 |
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Post by davidm on Oct 8, 2014 12:11:38 GMT
Is this where Bud turns evil?
Fact: Bud is small.
Fact: Ship is large.
Fact: Size does matter, 1000s of spam emails can't be wrong!
So what will happen to Bud when Lindsey abandons him for love boat?
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Post by arf on Oct 8, 2014 13:03:07 GMT
Why was there so much support for Horned Rabbit, but not much support for ShipBot? Oh yeah, accosting an entire year of students versus cute and furry. Yes. The rabbit didn't put anyone else in danger in its request to become human. Ah! The reason for that final tear: Horned Rabbit: "I'm so sorry, Little Green Fairy*, but I can't bear to go to the Court without bringing you with me!" Little Green Fairy: "What? OH...!" <squish/> *that is her true name, isn't it? |
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Post by thecarvergirl on Oct 8, 2014 13:05:19 GMT
Would it have been possible for the ship to take the "test" to enter Gillitie Wood, thus becoming a creature of flesh? The way the forest creatures become students? (Though I guess technically it couldn't live in the court anymore.)
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Post by arf on Oct 8, 2014 13:05:22 GMT
In unrelated news: I appear to have 'krigged' post 500.
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Post by Demonsul on Oct 8, 2014 13:34:45 GMT
"Uh, sorry ship buddy, she's happily married."
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Post by csj on Oct 8, 2014 13:37:30 GMT
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Post by aaroncampbell on Oct 8, 2014 14:26:08 GMT
I wonder where that whale skull really IS coming from? Is it coming from the psyche of the ship? If so, they have more going on than they led us to believe here, perhaps. And I'd imagine that this ship postdates Diego's demise, so it must have been made either by the Court or the robots, or both. So where did the intelligence for it come from? Was it retrofitted into a standard ship? If so, no wonder it feels out of place? But if that is the body it was made for, why does it feel out of place -- unless the designers (human or bot) made mistakes? That's a different line of questioning entirely, with vast philosophical implications of course......... |
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 8, 2014 14:47:43 GMT
I find the ship's reasoning less romantic and more creepy stalker like. I think Love is a two-way street. If it's one-way, then it's Infatuation. Both can equally inspire obsession, but Infatuation can be far less considerate. Would it have been possible for the ship to take the "test" to enter Gillitie Wood, thus becoming a creature of flesh? The way the forest creatures become students? (Though I guess technically it couldn't live in the court anymore.) That a good point. As far as we know, that may be where the flying octopus comes from. I wonder where that whale skull really IS coming from? Is it coming from the psyche of the ship? My first thought on seeing it was, the life Diego made is less artificial and more undead. Less electric golem and more metal zombie. We don't know how he made them. Maybe, they're part soul jar. |
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Post by aaroncampbell on Oct 8, 2014 15:00:33 GMT
Would it have been possible for the ship to take the "test" to enter Gillitie Wood, thus becoming a creature of flesh? The way the forest creatures become students? (Though I guess technically it couldn't live in the court anymore.) That a good point. As far as we know, that may be where the flying octopus comes from. I wonder where that whale skull really IS coming from? Is it coming from the psyche of the ship? My first thought on seeing it was, the life Diego made is less artificial and more undead. Less electric golem and more metal zombie. We don't know how he made them. Maybe, they're part soul jar. These are good questions; I really think it depends on whether the machines have a soul or not. I seem to recall somewhere the answer being negative, or at least the suggestion of that. I want to say it was one of the times Muut was explaining things to Annie and Kat, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. Any thoughts? At the very least, we have the robots explaining that they don't do anything or go anywhere when they "die", they just stop working. And there hasn't been a psychopomp to take them into the ether, which suggests nothing to take. So a "soul container" doesn't quite seem right; the golem idea seems closer. Especially when you consider the original bots and how they were almost an embodiment of Diego's love for Jeanne. |
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) So the infatuation isn't a new thing at all, so problematic as it may be, it probably isn't shallow. In addition, in the first panel, I wonder if he's actually creating small models of the ship and Lindsey on the ribbon thing, or if Tom just chose to portray it that way in a composite panel?
