|
|
Post by spritznar on Aug 31, 2011 0:44:22 GMT
Although Annie being able to 'see' Bud makes me imagine there's probably a little ghost crab hovering nearby from her perspective, which somewhat reduces the possibility of any romantic shenanigans. ha! now that image is stuck in my head. it's true, it does kind of tank the romantic mood |
|
|
|
Post by smjjames on Aug 31, 2011 2:26:01 GMT
He may be able to see them, but they are certainly out of earshot, otherwise Annie wouldn't be saying what she said out loud.
Bud seems to be mainly there to make sure they are safe, not stop romance from happening.
|
|
|
|
Post by basser on Aug 31, 2011 4:13:23 GMT
He may be able to see them, but they are certainly out of earshot, otherwise Annie wouldn't be saying what she said out loud. Bud seems to be mainly there to make sure they are safe, not stop romance from happening. Oh god Bud likes to watch. No wonder he loves sneaking out.I can't... I can't un-realize this. |
|
|
|
Post by smjjames on Aug 31, 2011 4:26:22 GMT
He may be able to see them, but they are certainly out of earshot, otherwise Annie wouldn't be saying what she said out loud. Bud seems to be mainly there to make sure they are safe, not stop romance from happening. Oh god Bud likes to watch. No wonder he loves sneaking out.I can't... I can't un-realize this. We don't even know that, or know the reasons why he is looking etherically. Plus he hasn't realized yet that Annie can see him, so he may think that he is giving them privacy. |
|
|
|
Post by crater on Aug 31, 2011 16:22:20 GMT
He may be able to see them, but they are certainly out of earshot, otherwise Annie wouldn't be saying what she said out loud. Bud seems to be mainly there to make sure they are safe, not stop romance from happening. Oh god Bud likes to watch. No wonder he loves sneaking out.I can't... I can't un-realize this. If you think about it, are we really that different than Bud? |
|
|
|
Post by Eversist on Sept 6, 2011 17:43:17 GMT
I wonder if that building is a dorm or a hotel or something? It seems pretty well maintained, if old. If the Court is "growing" from the seed Bismuth as some have speculated, maybe it just maintains itself. Seems like most of the buildings in the court are uninhabited, as it is. Also, robots. Robots may have upkept the building, is what I meant by "Also, robots," Formspringer. ^^; |
|
|
|
Post by kelantar on Sept 7, 2011 3:01:57 GMT
Not even between Surma/Anja and Antimony/Kat? I dunno, I'd even probably disagree with that. The only real parallels there are that Annie and Kat are their respective daughters and that they're friends. Obviously there have always been parallels between Annie and Surma, which are now even more apparent since we know they share a soul. However, going further, you could draw parallels between her and her father, given their introversion. Kat is an even more difficult personality to place. She seems more outgoing than either of her parents, and a direct link to her mother seems hard to place given her mother's obvious etherical affinity. Kat may have such an affinity, too, but we've seen nothing of it, save for her technical prowess, which outstrips her parents' even at a much younger age. So while Kat DOES have parallels to both her father and mother, she is distinctly different from each, and if anything, I think she has more of a connection to her father, given his lack of etheric ability. I DO think there are loads of parallels between characters, but I think trying to assign them 1:1 doesn't do them justice in this case. |
|
|
|
Post by imaginaryfriend on Sept 7, 2011 7:29:18 GMT
I DO think there are loads of parallels between characters, but I think trying to assign them 1:1 doesn't do them justice in this case. Like I said before, I am making comparisons and not assigning equivalence. There is some predictive power in doing so and though it is not nearly as strong as induction you can use it to make predictions where inductive reasoning simply can't. |
|
|
|
Post by TBeholder on Sept 7, 2011 9:56:20 GMT
<np: mora-tau - Submarine Under The Alley> Meh. Generic straight romance is boring and stupid. ...conversely, there are ways to be automatically interesting and smart. It follows. This is just the giant ship-sinking chapter, isn't it? Yes, Tom indoubitably inserted this specifically to poke fun at you. What else it could be? And here I thought GC was going to actually attempt to be different. From what? For example it definitely differs from bishie vampire stories and tons of illiterate purple-prose fanfics. More than enough to really read it. IMHO. Matter of taste, of course. Oh well. Looks like we're going down the stereotypical "oh look the kids will end up like the parents did" crap that ruins any story of this type. Gunnerkrigg? With "kids resemble their parent more than visually"? Startlingly breaking the line of the previous, what, 32 chapters? Good morning. Nothing interesting or different here, it seems. Good to know I have one less comic to keep up with, I guess. I agree that it's a good thing. Great, one more boring-ass straight romance. Tons of potential lost and for what? Because Tom didn't feel like taking any chances. No doubt, it's the only possible reason to not include something. But i'm curious. Assuming (for a moment) that Tom cares about some shippers so much he chose to include into the comic anything to shoo them away, what exactly chances you think he didn't feel like taking? That if they flock to Gunnerkrigg and don't get what they for some reason think he owes them, they'll run everywhere ceaselessly whining about him - like it happened with Anne McCaffrey?  That's for the two designated 'weird' kids in the comic, huh? Can't have the main characters interested in each other, despite all the little hints (and sometimes not so little ones) dropped all over the place. (1) Jack's the most boring lead in any romance since Chiba Mamoru from Sailormoon.  ... so much. There's not a single interesting (or redeeming) thing about him and yet it's looking increasingly like Annie's going to end up with him. Because straight people, that's why. God forbid GCC take a chance with anything. Nope, must conform to the status quo and leave that gay shit to the weirdo characters, right? (2) So, on the one eyestalk (1) they are weird so they should end up as a yuri-ship fodder, on the other (2) it's horrible to "leave that gay shit to the weirdo characters". Together, it makes an example of dialectics (greek:"doublespeak"). Yeah, no. Fuck you and fuck Tom. I guess it's nice he made a 'please stop reading my webcomic, it's becoming like any other teen romance strip' arc though. Real considerate-like. Always good to see straightforward, boring fuckin' romance blooming. Yes, and now... I'd like to use the opportunity and recommend "Darker Than Black". To chibisoma, because there appears (in-'verse) a yaoi manga involving "the forbidden love between man and elephant". And to Gunnerkrigg fans, because it's really good anime for people used to think while watching. And at the end, they'll have a kid, Annie'll die, and Kat'll be there to talk about the kid's adventures in the school or some other stereotypically generic thing. My school had one of these, too. No wait, they had a bike rack. Because the kids must be like the parents, always and forever. ! Good morning (good morning). ;D |
|
|
|
Post by Eversist on Sept 7, 2011 10:01:25 GMT
Just so you know, he was banned. :3
|
|
|
|
Post by TBeholder on Sept 7, 2011 11:05:19 GMT
Just so you know, he was banned. :3 Ah. It's just that there was a mention of "ragequit", and since i know how such things go sometimes... Then again, if this made someone grin, it wasn't a complete loss of time. |
|
|
|
Post by descoladavirus on Sept 7, 2011 22:16:06 GMT
Just so you know, he was banned. :3 Ah. It's just that there was a mention of "ragequit", and since i know how such things go sometimes... Then again, if this made someone grin, it wasn't a complete loss of time. I LAUGHING ON LINE'd. It was worth it. |
|
|
|
Post by rafk on Sept 9, 2011 8:04:35 GMT
Meh. Generic straight romance is boring and stupid. Got banned for nothing, I see  Ah well, if he couldn't predict that something in Gunnerkrigg Court would not play out straight, he wasn't much of a reader to lose anyway amirite? |
|
