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Post by hal9000 on Apr 7, 2010 1:48:05 GMT
So far the spider seems more like an evil prop than a thinking entity, because it just sits there. On the other hand, Annie has a history of favouring a diplomatic and straightforward approach, so if she/the comic is going to write the spider off as an abominable demonspawn that is only to be precautioned against rather than approached, I'm expecting this will be somehow acknowledged. Thing is, she can set up a situation that favors her, and THEN attempt the diplomatic approach. I have no objection to "talk to the spider"; it's "talk to the spider when I have almost no preparations in place for how it might react" that is a bad idea. Somehow I don't think Annie has thought that far ahead. Really, contacting the authorities/someone who might be more knowledgeable about Jack's problem is what she should have done after seeing the spider some months ago at the residential park. Or indeed, what she should have done after being accosted in the halls by a disturbed Jack at the end of the "Terror Castle" chapter. She hasn't even really discussed this with anyone as far as we know, and I think that implies she either doesn't/didn't consider it a serious problem, or that she believes that she can handle it entirely on her own. Either way, I suspect Jack is going to meet a bad end as a result.
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Post by Per on Apr 7, 2010 2:34:01 GMT
Thing is, she can set up a situation that favors her, and THEN attempt the diplomatic approach. I have no objection to "talk to the spider"; it's "talk to the spider when I have almost no preparations in place for how it might react" that is a bad idea. That's true, but Annie is the girl who felt guilty about not having helped the ghost that greeted her by cutting her face (that greeted her by cutting her face) (she still has the scar) (on her face).
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Post by drakebloodiv on Apr 7, 2010 3:09:01 GMT
Thing is, she can set up a situation that favors her, and THEN attempt the diplomatic approach. I have no objection to "talk to the spider"; it's "talk to the spider when I have almost no preparations in place for how it might react" that is a bad idea. That's true, but Annie is the girl who felt guilty about not having helped the ghost that greeted her by cutting her face (that greeted her by cutting her face) (she still has the scar) (on her face). Well, we're not sure she knows about it, and it's an etheric scar that only affects her blinker form.
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Post by todd on Apr 7, 2010 10:38:55 GMT
Oh, no, I did not mean to turn Jack over to the adults. Yes, but that's how Jack would perceive it if he sees Annie with some of the teachers.
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Post by todd on Apr 7, 2010 10:41:17 GMT
Somehow I don't think Annie has thought that far ahead. Really, contacting the authorities/someone who might be more knowledgeable about Jack's problem is what she should have done after seeing the spider some months ago at the residential park. Or indeed, what she should have done after being accosted in the halls by a disturbed Jack at the end of the "Terror Castle" chapter. She hasn't even really discussed this with anyone as far as we know, and I think that implies she either doesn't/didn't consider it a serious problem, or that she believes that she can handle it entirely on her own. More likely the latter, given her long history (all the way back to Chapter One) of trying to solve everything herself rather than turning to the teachers for help - even after she's had plenty of evidence that the Donlans, Eglamore, and Jones are as experienced with the etheric world as she is, and capable of handling it well. Under those circumstances, I'm not surprised that she hasn't turned to the grown-ups in this case either.
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Post by the bandit on Apr 7, 2010 14:23:14 GMT
Yeah, echoing todd's statement, I find it surprising that anyone thinks Annie would contemplate pulling the adults in to save Jack. She has [since rebuffed with Shadow 2 in Chapter 1] yet to approach any adult about any of these things except to garner more information so that she can handle it herself. [Annie]'s the most ethereally powerful person we've seen in the Court (except for maybe Reynardine...) I've got one word for you: SPANG!
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Post by Mylian on Apr 7, 2010 16:23:16 GMT
Thing is, she can set up a situation that favors her, and THEN attempt the diplomatic approach. I have no objection to "talk to the spider"; it's "talk to the spider when I have almost no preparations in place for how it might react" that is a bad idea. Somehow I don't think Annie has thought that far ahead. Really, contacting the authorities/someone who might be more knowledgeable about Jack's problem is what she should have done after seeing the spider some months ago at the residential park. Or indeed, what she should have done after being accosted in the halls by a disturbed Jack at the end of the "Terror Castle" chapter. She hasn't even really discussed this with anyone as far as we know, and I think that implies she either doesn't/didn't consider it a serious problem, or that she believes that she can handle it entirely on her own. Either way, I suspect Jack is going to meet a bad end as a result. Personally I think there's a measure of professional pride involved. Acting as a medium goes beyond simple Court/Wood diplomacy, but she's already been acting in that capacity to a great degree. I think on some level she sees it as her job.
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Post by Charlotte on Apr 8, 2010 21:00:37 GMT
<<So far the spider seems more like an evil prop >>
Why evil? We all have to kill to eat (even vegans). If you don't have someone to kill your food for you and drop it onto a plate in front of you, you have to do whatever it takes to get your daily bread. The spider has to build webs. She doesn't seem to be doing Jack any harm other than using him as a support for her hunting.
Other random observations:
If Jack can see Annie when she is in the ether, perhaps that explains why he could see her in Zimmy's dungeon when Gamma only counted 2 heads there. He could see them but they couldn't see him because he wasn't there with them, and being able to see them was just part of his "gift" ~*~ I have never known a spider to attack the structure she builds her web on. ~*~ When Zimmy was transported to the dungeon, Tom remarked that she gave up too soon. This, to me, indicates that the rain trick will work eventually and both of them will be (a)cured or (b)able to control what is going on. Annie called it a "gift". I wonder what they will be able to do with it once it is no longer threatening to them? ~*~ I don't think Jack was being chased by security. I think he is being trained to be a court protector and that was a training - sparring exercise.
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Post by the bandit on Apr 9, 2010 15:35:50 GMT
When Zimmy was transported to the dungeon, Tom remarked that she gave up too soon. This, to me, indicates that the rain trick will work eventually.... It indicated to me that she released her efforts to hold it back before realizing that the rain wasn't working. By the time she realized that the rain was not dissipating the nightmare, it was too late: she had already crossed the threshhold of release to the point that she could not pull it all back in.
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