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Post by edzepp on Nov 5, 2008 7:58:13 GMT
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Post by agasa on Nov 5, 2008 8:29:22 GMT
It's evident that Annie has a plan (that is, ask a LOT about the court, probably the experiment too), but she does not want to go tell Jones. Annie's very reserved, ya know.
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Post by edzepp on Nov 5, 2008 8:41:57 GMT
But of course, Jones sees right through her. Because Jones is a robot.
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Post by etcetera on Nov 5, 2008 8:49:47 GMT
On the other hand, Jones seems to be pushing Annie in a strange way. I am now wondering more than ever what Jones true motives are.
Also, I'd like to quote the words of someone else for todays comic: "HAHAHA! Eglamore you hound! [...] How awkward! HAHAHA!"
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Post by Count Casimir on Nov 5, 2008 9:25:04 GMT
Poor Eggers. So flusterable. As perceptive as she is stone-cold foxy.
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Post by Refugee on Nov 5, 2008 9:44:23 GMT
Heh heh heh.
The door swings inward; you have to pull on the knob to open it.
No, I don't think they're trapped -- I'm sure both Annie and Jones are more than capable of getting out -- but I expect it will cause a bit of a moment there.
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Post by agasa on Nov 5, 2008 10:39:05 GMT
I expect it will cause a bit of a moment there. The only moment it will cause is: 1) Jones picks up the handle 2) Jones jams the handle in place 3) Jones rotates the handle and the door opens ...door handles just work this way. It's the etherial tenet. Science just does not explain them.
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Post by mike on Nov 5, 2008 11:02:23 GMT
On the other hand, Jones seems to be pushing Annie in a strange way. I am now wondering more than ever what Jones true motives are. I think Jones just wants to make sure that Annie knows the Woods' side of things, not just the Court's. She can't be a good medium otherwise. Awkward moment at the bottom of the last comic not withstanding, it looks like Annie is taking ol' Egger's advice-- she's putting on the clip-on tie in panel 5.
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Post by maevelynn on Nov 5, 2008 11:16:23 GMT
Can't wait to see what's gonna happen in the forest.
HURRY ANNIEEE! We wanna meet Coyote again!
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Post by jokerjester on Nov 5, 2008 11:37:43 GMT
I agree with ETC. Jones does seem to be pushing the conversation in an odd direction. I don't know. Maybe Jones is going to give Annie a question to ask. Seems like she would be the one to do something like that.
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Post by todd on Nov 5, 2008 11:47:10 GMT
I'm looking forward to Annie's questions to Coyote about the Court, especially since it could lead to a more balanced presentation of the quarrel between the Court and the Wood than she's seen so far.
Up until now, all the really bad deeds that we've seen in the quarrel have been committed by the forest-folk (particularly Ysengrin). Ysengrin's been trying to start a war, apparently, and has gone to dark lengths to ensure it, including duping Robot and using him as a tool, burying the Tic-Toc Bird (and murdering the witnesses), etc. The most that the Court's done (so far as we know) is to defend itself against Ysengrin's attacks and patronize the talking animals (cf. Jones' comments on the Headmaster in Chapter Seventeen). Even the trouble that Annie unwittingly caused doesn't count, partly because her actions (like sending Robot across the bridge) had no malicious intent, partly because the school faculty wasn't involved with them.
But from what we know of the comic's tone, the conflict would have to be more complex than that; both sides would have to have behaved badly during it, not just Gillitie. So it's most likely that the Court has done things in the past that have harmed the Wood (maybe as a side-effect to experiments such as the one in the last chapter), and that Annie's conversation with Coyote might reveal some of these.
(Of course, it's equally possible that Coyote will be more interested in talking about what the connection was between Surma and Eglamore or Reynardine than the school-forest conflict. We'll have to wait and see.)
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Post by nikita on Nov 5, 2008 13:30:46 GMT
Jones reminds me a bit of Geser and Zabulon from Lukyanenko's "Nightwatch". They stay in the background, reading probability-lines to see what will happen under which circumstances. They rarely go the direct way to achieve their goals.. instead they're manipulating people, pushing buttons in ways that seem harmless but make exactly those circumstances happen in order to create the chain of events they want.
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Post by cenit on Nov 5, 2008 13:54:46 GMT
Is there a way for Jones to be more cool?
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Post by eightyfour on Nov 5, 2008 14:32:18 GMT
On the other hand, Jones seems to be pushing Annie in a strange way. I am now wondering more than ever what Jones true motives are. I don't really think it's strange. To me, Jones seems to be very close to truely neutral, or at least trying to be. She just wants Annie to hear the other side of the whole story. What I am wondering more than ever is, why doesn't Jones work as the Court's medium? She certainly seems to be qualified. I speculate that she is in fact so qualified that the Court has decided her talents would be wasted at what they deem an unfortunately neccessary, but trivial job. Which again brings up the question, what exactly is it that she does as her main job? Something along the line of Black Ops, espionage and sabotage, I suspect! ;D I always got a strange "military"-vibe from her.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Nov 5, 2008 22:27:06 GMT
Something bad happened to Surma in the past, and Eglamore blames himself. He's trying to atone for it by making sure nothing happens to Annie. That's my theory. What I am wondering more than ever is, why doesn't Jones work as the Court's medium? She certainly seems to be qualified. Jones is a robot. Those Luddites from Gillitie would never accept a robot medium. That's my theory.
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Post by Klex on Nov 5, 2008 22:34:43 GMT
Also the fact that robots can't be medium.
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Post by fishf00d on Nov 5, 2008 23:12:36 GMT
I love how Jones manipulates people! and I mean that in the most respectful way.
Also, eggers needs a haircut.
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Post by todd on Nov 5, 2008 23:18:33 GMT
If Jones *is* a robot, she's clearly a different brand from the other robots at Gunnerkrigg. It seems that all or almost all of the other robots in the Court (the ones that look like robots) are, to put it gently, somewhat scatter-brained.
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Post by inhumandecency on Nov 6, 2008 0:07:19 GMT
The way Eglamore reacts in this strip is more than just cartoonish embarrassment. Jones struck a deadly serious nerve with him. I'm wondering if he might have something seriously bad in his past, not just a spat over Surma's affection.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Nov 6, 2008 0:33:02 GMT
If Jones *is* a robot, she's clearly a different brand from the other robots at Gunnerkrigg. It seems that all or almost all of the other robots in the Court (the ones that look like robots) are, to put it gently, somewhat scatter-brained. Not to mention to Court Robots are obviously mechanical, and Jones isn't. The TicTocs, on the other hand...
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Post by inhumandecency on Nov 6, 2008 0:58:33 GMT
If Jones *is* a robot, she's clearly a different brand from the other robots at Gunnerkrigg. It seems that all or almost all of the other robots in the Court (the ones that look like robots) are, to put it gently, somewhat scatter-brained. Not to mention to Court Robots are obviously mechanical, and Jones isn't. I thought Kat's discovery was that the Court robots are non-obviously non-mechanical.
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Post by xolejh on Nov 6, 2008 1:03:31 GMT
is it possible that maybe, just maybe, jones is hinting at something? This will probably be my favorite chapter no matter how ti turns out. Questions, answered.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Nov 6, 2008 3:22:55 GMT
Not to mention to Court Robots are obviously mechanical, and Jones isn't. I thought Kat's discovery was that the Court robots are non-obviously non-mechanical. That's true. My point was, even if the robots run off some kind of magitech, they look like slabs of metal. You can't confuse one of them for a human. Jones, however (assuming she is a robot), already has been confused for a human. Which, in addition to the difference in personalities that Todd already mentioned, suggests that Jones' hypothetical creator is a different person from the creator of the Court Robots. Or that Jones isn't a robot after all, but that's no fun.
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Post by fishf00d on Nov 6, 2008 5:03:11 GMT
I just thought; what if Annie only said that she thought Jones was a robot, to "assess her charachter", as an immitation of Jones?
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Post by sinewmire on Nov 7, 2008 9:22:18 GMT
He's growing it out again.
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Post by Llandaryn on Nov 7, 2008 18:16:20 GMT
The way Eglamore reacts in this strip is more than just cartoonish embarrassment. Jones struck a deadly serious nerve with him. I'm wondering if he might have something seriously bad in his past, not just a spat over Surma's affection. Seems to me like he's projecting latent feelings of attraction for Surma onto Annie, realises that it's highly inappropriate because she's 1) A kid, 2) A student, 3) Not Surma, also realises that Jones knows about it, so he made a hasty exit before she got chance to say anything else.
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Post by eightyfour on Dec 26, 2008 9:27:16 GMT
Excuse me for this piece of forum necromancy, but I just had a thought that I just couldn't let go...
Jones says in her typical jonesian way: Note the word "himself". That could imply that someone will, be there to protect Annie during her visit to the forest, it just won't be Eglamore (now we know that Eggers has to stay back because Isegrimm doesn't welcome him - I really doubt Coyote himself would mind at all). But if there's someone invisibly protecting Annie, who is it? Jones?
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Post by amantis on Oct 5, 2010 2:04:21 GMT
I know its probably a wooden sword, but Jones hand in that (3rd to) last panel is on something...questionable
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Post by Casey on Oct 5, 2010 5:23:38 GMT
Seriously, you necroed a three year old thread to make a lame penis joke?
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Post by Tenjen on Oct 5, 2010 6:43:44 GMT
speaking of which. MY GOD ITS BEEN THREE YEARS. Gunnerkrigg has been part of my life longer than i've realised @w@
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