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Post by atteSmythe on Mar 18, 2011 12:49:50 GMT
Heeeeey, I think I see what's going on here.
Kat finds out about Robot's crush, but cannot return the affection of an appliance. In desperation, Robot is fitted with a special program that allows him to take over any machine, just so he can be close to her. But there's a problem! The machines never work right once he leaves them. Eventually, he is caught and exiled...only to be freed years from now, when Kat's daughter, a spirited tween, unknowingly brings him back from the Forest, inhabiting her iPod.
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Post by rainofsteel on Mar 18, 2011 13:50:19 GMT
I don't know, this just doesn't feel right- i say the Annie we see here is Coyote in disguise while the real Annie is somewhere hanging out with Ysengrin. Also: Helloooo! I was thinking that Coyote's personality had rubbed off on Annie a little too strongly, but that is also an interesting idea. Annie doesn't seem like Annie, but after what happened, who can say? Kat also does not seem like Kat, but we know of nothing significant that happened to her, yet she's walking around stone-faced like she's experienced some type of severe psychological trauma. Did someone try and assault her, or succeed, and she hasn't admitted it yet? Her behavior looks pretty much post-assault. All I can say is I hope Kat's reason for this behavior is not solely Annie's sudden absence. Which is not to say that her behavior isn't the sole result of that, but it does tell us lots about Kat if it is. I can't help but keep thinking that there must be more to it. EDIT-------- I wonder, if something happened to Kat, and maybe she blames Annie for not being there to help her...
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Post by basser on Mar 18, 2011 14:11:12 GMT
I'm not really a fan of watching characters make huge awkward fools of themselves. Can we skip to the part where Annie stops being a crazy person.
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Post by jayne on Mar 18, 2011 14:21:24 GMT
Annie!!! Make your hair GO UP!!!!!!!!
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Post by jayne on Mar 18, 2011 14:27:13 GMT
That didn't work out too well :/ So Robot has a crush on Kat, hmmmmm Also, I am glad Gunnerkrigg Court still has a long way to go, because yesterday, Digger ended ;_; Aw man... I didn't notice "The End" at the bottom... I was hoping for more adventures on the way home. Still satisfactory conclusion. Good story. ;_;
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Post by jayne on Mar 18, 2011 14:35:23 GMT
I'm not really a fan of watching characters make huge awkward fools of themselves. Can we skip to the part where Annie stops being a crazy person. "In the next scene, Annie, a 26 year old molecular botanist, meets with her husband for lunch to discuss which school their newly adopted daughter should attend."
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Post by goldenknots on Mar 18, 2011 15:08:50 GMT
I'm not really a fan of watching characters make huge awkward fools of themselves. Can we skip to the part where Annie stops being a crazy person. Seconded.
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Post by Per on Mar 18, 2011 15:08:51 GMT
"In the next scene, Annie, a 26 year old molecular botanist, meets with her husband for lunch to discuss which school their newly adopted daughter should attend." Quietly slipping the brochure from Cursed Teapot Elementary behind a potted plant when her husband isn't looking, because we'll have none of that.
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Post by fronzel on Mar 18, 2011 15:27:41 GMT
Yeah, that time in the forest has totally matured her, guys.
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Post by smjjames on Mar 18, 2011 16:46:57 GMT
Maybe not so much matured as more open, which will be better for her character development over the long term.
As for the older Annie narrating in the first chapter, do we know how far into the future she is narrating from? She could very well be narrating as an old woman.
Also, the fact that she still has her last name could indicate she hasn't married yet at the point of time she is narrating from, so....
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Post by mariposa on Mar 18, 2011 17:52:09 GMT
I'm usually not a fan of awkwardness, but I am loving it in panel two.
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Post by smjjames on Mar 18, 2011 18:47:11 GMT
Heeeeey, I think I see what's going on here. Kat finds out about Robot's crush, but cannot return the affection of an appliance. In desperation, Robot is fitted with a special program that allows him to take over any machine, just so he can be close to her. But there's a problem! The machines never work right once he leaves them. Eventually, he is caught and exiled...only to be freed years from now, when Kat's daughter, a spirited tween, unknowingly brings him back from the Forest, inhabiting her iPod. Heh, I wonder if the whole robot romance was foreshadowed on this page. Still, Kat thinks of robots as more than appliances and we all know that Robot is kind of her fave so to speak. Also, the more convulted the scheme, the harder it is going to fall splat when it does, so I think annie needs to stop trying too hard and just talk to Kat.
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Post by spacemilk on Mar 18, 2011 19:03:39 GMT
My predictions for the future: Annie's penchant for creating "situations" is going to lead to a boy-who-cried-wolf story, wherein Annie actually does need help and Kat just assumes she's being ridiculous again.
We are finally going to find out what "angel" means, I hope.
And I agree about skipping the awkwardness - I love me some GKC, but I absolutely HATE watching people embarrass themselves.
Also, smjjames, I wonder who else has had robots fall in love with them, since it's common enough to warrant a page in the student handbook?! Are their angels everywhere or something??
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Post by smjjames on Mar 18, 2011 19:09:00 GMT
Also, smjjames, I wonder who else has had robots fall in love with them, since it's common enough to warrant a page in the student handbook?! Are their angels everywhere or something?? Well, the Court is at least 300 years old, maybe up to 500.
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Post by ryos on Mar 18, 2011 19:33:30 GMT
Drama ahoy! THIS is what happens when you hone your social skills with Coyote, Ysengrin, and forest fairies. And I agree with Basser: it's panful to watch fictional characters you've come to care about do such wrongheaded things.
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Post by Per on Mar 18, 2011 19:50:30 GMT
I think it's entirely non-painful to watch fictional characters switch gears and engage in comedic antics with a somewhat serious subtext.
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Post by thor on Mar 18, 2011 20:16:46 GMT
Heh, I wonder if the whole robot romance was foreshadowed on this page. Still, Kat thinks of robots as more than appliances and we all know that Robot is kind of her fave so to speak. Now we are stepping a little too close to Rule 34 territory.... (Ok, curiosity got the better of me, and I googled. Suffice it to say that someone has already considered Robot's appreciation of Katerina, and just leave it at that. )
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Post by smjjames on Mar 18, 2011 20:56:24 GMT
Drama ahoy! THIS is what happens when you hone your social skills with Coyote, Ysengrin, and forest fairies. And I agree with Basser: it's panful to watch fictional characters you've come to care about do such wrongheaded things. It really depends on the theme of the comic and what you've come to expect. For comics like Darths and Droids or Order Of The Stick, they are meant to be funny, but GC is closer to a drama (with lots of other categories mixed in, minus horror although there have been some light thriller moments) and besides, Annie and possibly Kat, are going through a character transition right now.
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Post by Georgie L on Mar 18, 2011 21:30:53 GMT
Kat also does not seem like Kat, but we know of nothing significant that happened to her, yet she's walking around stone-faced like she's experienced some type of severe psychological trauma. Did someone try and assault her, or succeed, and she hasn't admitted it yet? Her behaviour looks pretty much post-assault. EDIT-------- I wonder, if something happened to Kat, and maybe she blames Annie for not being there to help her... I dunno your best friend ditchin you without warning for an entire summer holiday is pretty bad.
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Post by Georgie L on Mar 18, 2011 21:34:04 GMT
Heh, I wonder if the whole robot romance was foreshadowed on this page. Still, Kat thinks of robots as more than appliances and we all know that Robot is kind of her fave so to speak. Now we are stepping a little too close to Rule 34 territory.... (Ok, curiosity got the better of me, and I googled. Suffice it to say that someone has already considered Robot's appreciation of Katerina, and just leave it at that. ) terrifying to know
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Post by todd on Mar 18, 2011 22:18:23 GMT
Maybe not so much matured as more open, which will be better for her character development over the long term. As for the older Annie narrating in the first chapter, do we know how far into the future she is narrating from? She could very well be narrating as an old woman. Also, the fact that she still has her last name could indicate she hasn't married yet at the point of time she is narrating from, so.... Note that Annie's narration last appeared in Chapter Fifteen, and the one piece of definite narration we saw since then was Sky Watcher's in Chapter Twenty-five. Maybe Tom's dropped the notion of the webcomic being her memoirs. Some married women keep their birth surnames (Surma was always called "Surma Stibnite" in the comic, whenever her full name was given at all), so I wouldn't read too much into Annie using the "Carver" surname on the first page.
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Post by wittgen on Mar 18, 2011 22:50:55 GMT
This chapter has been distressing. It has also made me acutely aware that Antimony is essentially a grown up and Kat is still a kid. I say this because Antimony is dealing with grown up situations, and Kat is not. I think this chapter and the last throw that into sharp relief by how Antimony and Katerina's stories have mirrored each other.
Antimony was thrown into emotional confusion by the huge revelation about her mother. Her repressed emotions exploded. She ran away in the heat of the moment. When she calmed down, she took the opportunity she had to do something that would connect her with her mother. This had the unfortunate side effect of hurting Kat. Katerina was thrown into emotional confusion because Antimony bailed on her. Now she's responding by giving Antimony the cold shoulder.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 19, 2011 1:13:48 GMT
And Antimony is trying to reconcile by manufacturing ridiculous situations to make Kat hang out with her again, rather than recognizing that Kat needs more time to herself. Very mature.
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Post by hal9000 on Mar 19, 2011 1:18:46 GMT
This chapter has been distressing. It has also made me acutely aware that Antimony is essentially a grown up and Kat is still a kid. I say this because Antimony is dealing with grown up situations, and Kat is not. I think this chapter and the last throw that into sharp relief by how Antimony and Katerina's stories have mirrored each other. Antimony was thrown into emotional confusion by the huge revelation about her mother. Her repressed emotions exploded. She ran away in the heat of the moment. When she calmed down, she took the opportunity she had to do something that would connect her with her mother. This had the unfortunate side effect of hurting Kat. Katerina was thrown into emotional confusion because Antimony bailed on her. Now she's responding by giving Antimony the cold shoulder. Annie's ineptitude at dealing with this situation demonstrates pretty well that she's nowhere near being 'grown up' in terms of being able to handle social situations, at least. Honestly, I was more impressed with Kat for how well she took getting ditched for the whole summer (though she has had a while to reflect on it, and we didn't see how she initially took the news).
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Post by jayne on Mar 19, 2011 1:24:28 GMT
A friend of mine in Canada just got married and she says women don't officially take their husbands name. Legally they keep their maiden name.
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Post by Max on Mar 19, 2011 2:49:03 GMT
Some married women keep their birth surnames (Surma was always called "Surma Stibnite" in the comic, whenever her full name was given at all), so I wouldn't read too much into Annie using the "Carver" surname on the first page. Tom confirmed somewhere that Surma changed her name to Carver when she married. But yeah, plenty of women don't change their names, although most do.
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Post by atteSmythe on Mar 19, 2011 4:15:54 GMT
A friend of mine in Canada just got married and she says women don't officially take their husbands name. Legally they keep their maiden name. Depends on the person and place and situation. My wife jumped through the hoops to take my surname officially. One of her friends did not take her husband's due to the trouble changing the paperwork on her newly-acquired medical license. It's my understanding that so long as you're not doing it with intent to defraud, in the States at least, you can call yourself whatever you like.
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Post by wittgen on Mar 19, 2011 7:04:54 GMT
And Antimony is trying to reconcile by manufacturing ridiculous situations to make Kat hang out with her again, rather than recognizing that Kat needs more time to herself. Very mature. Social skills and maturity are different things entirely.
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Post by Fhqwhgads on Mar 19, 2011 7:32:04 GMT
Dear Annie: Please get some sleep now and reconsider your situation in the morning.
I'm going to go try this myself right now! I like it! It's Nice.
Everyone should do this often, BUT ESPECIALLY YOU YOUNG LADY.
*go-to-bed_clown.jpg*
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Post by Gemini Jim on Mar 19, 2011 9:47:46 GMT
Not necessarily. Also, her hair is about long enough (and the right color) to pull a WICKED Jessie from Team Rocket if she tried. HA HA! I always thought of Annie as more the Kim Possible type, but now I've got thoughts of Annie cosplaying, with and Rey as (an unwilling and reluctant) Meowth XD
"to protect the world from devastation..."
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