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Post by arf on May 9, 2018 7:10:56 GMT
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Post by madjack on May 9, 2018 7:13:08 GMT
It's almost a given Tom put this word in today's page just to mess with us but....
"seemingly"
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Post by noone3 on May 9, 2018 7:16:13 GMT
This is getting more and more Tokyo-3 vibes every minute...  Get in the bot, Kat! |
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Post by theonethatgotaway on May 9, 2018 7:34:58 GMT
So, we head back to the Power Station. I know one person who is going to haaateee thiiiis...
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Post by fia on May 9, 2018 7:55:32 GMT
I'm almost thinking Akira. Or Metropolis, when they evacuate the children.
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Post by csj on May 9, 2018 8:07:07 GMT
Odd choice. Surprised this information wasn't conveyed otherwise, expected more telling than showing.
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Post by philman on May 9, 2018 8:17:12 GMT
Odd choice. Surprised this information wasn't conveyed otherwise, expected more telling than showing. Tom often does time skips where he what has just happened if it is important to know, but not interesting to watch, setting the scene to show the actual interesting events. It does, but their versions of the Redcoats are real buzzkills. (Although given the events of the last chapter, perhaps more necessary than first thought?) |
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Post by faiiry on May 9, 2018 11:28:40 GMT
It's almost a given Tom put this word in today's page just to mess with us but.... "seemingly" Yeah, what? It seems that Annie - from whatever future time she's narrating - is suggesting that the procedure was put in place for another reason altogether. An excuse to use the omega device, maybe? |
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Post by faiiry on May 9, 2018 11:31:10 GMT
Odd choice. Surprised this information wasn't conveyed otherwise, expected more telling than showing. I agree. I think this page could easily have been portrayed without any speech bubbles, with a few minor tweaks. But it's nice to see Annie's narration make a return - to use it only in the early chapters would be startlingly inconsistent. |
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Post by alchemistbrian on May 9, 2018 11:46:26 GMT
It's really starting to look more and more like we're about to go to war. Something's telling me that this is going to be the last chapter of Volume 7, and Volume 8 will be entirely about the "Science vs. Aether" War where all of the mysteries and plot threads will be resolved, all of the remaining Chekov's Guns will be fired, and the story will come to an end.
I'm probably completely wrong, but that's just the vibe I'm getting.
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Post by madjack on May 9, 2018 12:31:12 GMT
It's almost a given Tom put this word in today's page just to mess with us but.... "seemingly" Yeah, what? It seems that Annie - from whatever future time she's narrating - is suggesting that the procedure was put in place for another reason altogether. An excuse to use the omega device, maybe? I don't know either. On one hand a glaringly unnecessary word like that is usually a case of how and why it'll become relevant, not 'if'. On the other, a general evacuation plan from the areas of highest threat (forest border) to lowest (coast) doesn't seem an unreasonable contingency plan to have. |
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Post by todd on May 9, 2018 12:37:08 GMT
An excuse to use the omega device, maybe? Still assuming that it's a weapon of some sort; all that we know is that the Court - and particularly Antony - were working on it. (Though it's an understandable assumption, given the ominous connotations of the "Omega" part.) It might be just another device for scientific research and study without military applications. |
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Post by ctso74 on May 9, 2018 13:24:31 GMT
An excuse to use the omega device, maybe? Still assuming that it's a weapon of some sort; all that we know is that the Court - and particularly Antony - were working on it. (Though it's an understandable assumption, given the ominous connotations of the "Omega" part.) It might be just another device for scientific research and study without military applications. I always thought, the Omega Device was the Court's way of enhancing and controlling Mankind's reality-making ability. We made Coyote. What if we could do that in a controlled manner? What if we could alter reality like we alter a line of code? The Omega Device could simply be a command line interface for the Etheric matrix, they line in. To the Coast? Is this chapter finally going to be the Gunnerkrigg Court Beach Episode? Fireworks, crushes, and breaking watermelons with bokken? I got my hopes up for the Love Boat chapter. Don't let me down now. |
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Post by Zox Tomana on May 9, 2018 13:38:35 GMT
This is probably the first time we've gotten a panel that REALLY shows the massive scale of the Court. That's a HUGE city
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Post by faiiry on May 9, 2018 13:41:07 GMT
An excuse to use the omega device, maybe? Still assuming that it's a weapon of some sort; all that we know is that the Court - and particularly Antony - were working on it. (Though it's an understandable assumption, given the ominous connotations of the "Omega" part.) It might be just another device for scientific research and study without military applications. My theory: as per Get Lost, it's a two-in-one device: it gets you hot and bothered and makes you like bugs. Win-win. |
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Post by madjack on May 9, 2018 13:56:06 GMT
Still assuming that it's a weapon of some sort; all that we know is that the Court - and particularly Antony - were working on it. (Though it's an understandable assumption, given the ominous connotations of the "Omega" part.) It might be just another device for scientific research and study without military applications. I always thought, the Omega Device was the Court's way of enhancing and controlling Mankind's reality-making ability. We made Coyote. What if we could do that in a controlled manner? What if we could alter reality like we alter a line of code? The Omega Device could simply be a command line interface for the Etheric matrix, they line in. I really like this idea. I was sticking with the probability engine / timeviewer angle as a means to study history and possibly future history (as well as see events like this coming to some degree) as well as do things like dissect and demonstrably prove that a lot of the etheric myths are just that, to depower their origin stories and bring the gods down to their level.. But inertia might mean that wouldn't necessarily do anything to those who are already established. This is what they could be doing, using, say, the foley kids as etheric number crunchers in experiments to discern the rules that the ether operates under, like Renard's ownership or Coyote's conditional "gifts" while the others try to discover a means of altering those rules. I'm still going to say the timeviewer engine exists, either as a component of the larger device (something has to be known before it can be manipulated) or as a practical spin-off or calibration tool to give visible results on how close the predictive output lines up. |
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Post by Eve Swann on May 9, 2018 15:26:03 GMT
Geez when this happened at my school we just had to stay there. Lazy kids these days...
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Post by todd on May 9, 2018 16:03:06 GMT
If the Omega Device is indeed the Court's big goal, the one it's been striving for ever since it was founded, I doubt its main purpose will be to tame and neutralize etheric beings like Coyote, simply because that would risk having something circular about it - a case of "We settled by this remote forest so that we could build a device to defang the etheric creatures we wouldn't have to worry about if we hadn't settled by this remote forest full of them".
More likely the Court is simply trying to come up with a proper scientific explanation for the ether, not content with the "it just exists" answer, and may be unaware of the side effects it could have on the etheric population. (Though if the side-effects do exist, and would be harmful to the etheric beings... in that case, I'd say that Ysengrin and the other forest-folk hostile to the Court have a point.)
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Post by Sky Schemer on May 9, 2018 18:33:23 GMT
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Post by TBeholder on May 9, 2018 18:54:31 GMT
An opportunity? An excuse to use the omega device, maybe? Still assuming that it's a weapon of some sort; all that we know is that the Court - and particularly Antony - were working on it. (Though it's an understandable assumption, given the ominous connotations of the "Omega" part.) It might be just another device for scientific research and study without military applications. Like it's the first day you see a fundom. For those who didn't let it go in 3 days every faucet will be "omega device" ever after. ;] |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on May 10, 2018 16:27:54 GMT
Odd choice. Surprised this information wasn't conveyed otherwise, expected more telling than showing. I agree. I think this page could easily have been portrayed without any speech bubbles, with a few minor tweaks. But it's nice to see Annie's narration make a return - to use it only in the early chapters would be startlingly inconsistent. In regards to Annie's narration... Maybe Tom has Annie narrate the comic when events are beyond her control or influence and all she can do is objectively say, in her emotionless style, what she is observing. At the beginning of the comic she had been shipped off to the Court and now she may be getting shipped away in the evacuation. A proverbial leaf in the proverbial wind. |
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Post by Storel on May 10, 2018 20:11:05 GMT
I'm surprised nobody has done this yet:  |
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Post by Eversist on May 10, 2018 22:18:46 GMT
This is probably the first time we've gotten a panel that REALLY shows the massive scale of the Court. That's a HUGE city Agreed! I thought this page did a pretty good job of showing the crazy-scale, too. --- Unrelated stupid joke:  Is that Eglamore :V |
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