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Post by Ophel on Dec 20, 2014 6:27:54 GMT
I meant 20% mark dor the story overall. Like Disc 1 of 4 just finished. The students have finished their ninth year. So they have year ten, year eleven, and sixth form to go. Seems like the 50% point. Are you guys being sarcastic and I'm not geting it, again? Don't worry, jelly, I was being genuine. It's just that, with so many things going on, I just feel like we're still have a very long way to go before the finale. Which is nice, of course, but them mysteries! There's just so many, I can't! I can't even! |
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Post by Lightice on Dec 20, 2014 12:31:06 GMT
I really don't think it's relevant how many school years there are left. Gunnerkrigg Court isn't Harry Potter, it isn't neatly divided into schoolterm-sized chunks. A single year could be stretched over a lot more chapters than the previous one, if Tom has more to say about that year. There could be a timeskip if nothing of special interest happens at some point. Hell, it's not even guaranteed that end of the school would equal end of the comic.
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Post by thedoctor on Dec 23, 2014 1:07:04 GMT
I really don't think it's relevant how many school years there are left. Gunnerkrigg Court isn't Harry Potter, it isn't neatly divided into schoolterm-sized chunks. A single year could be stretched over a lot more chapters than the previous one, if Tom has more to say about that year. There could be a timeskip if nothing of special interest happens at some point. Hell, it's not even guaranteed that end of the school would equal end of the comic. True, however it would make a nice end of story (theoretically). I realize Tom is kind of nontraditional in his storytelling, but the end of school is VERY convenient. |
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Post by lit on Dec 23, 2014 17:43:48 GMT
I really don't think it's relevant how many school years there are left. Gunnerkrigg Court isn't Harry Potter, it isn't neatly divided into schoolterm-sized chunks. A single year could be stretched over a lot more chapters than the previous one, if Tom has more to say about that year. There could be a timeskip if nothing of special interest happens at some point. Hell, it's not even guaranteed that end of the school would equal end of the comic. Yeah. Even Harry Potter's schoolterm-sized chunks aren't of equal length. The books in the series got way longer as the story progressed; the last four books/school years account for about 75% of the word count (and by extension the story) even though you might expect them to account for only a little over half. I don't think it's unusual for the pace of a series to pick up as it goes along and have more things happening in shorter spans of time, and as a result later chapters get longer and later books get longer to accommodate them. A lot of series I've read sort of balloon out in the later books. It's certainly plausible to me that we haven't reached the halfway point with Gunnerkrigg, though it's difficult for me to confidently predict where in the trajectory we could be. I don't know what still needs to happen for there to be a resolution. I do hope the story stretches out to the later years of Annie and Kat's schooling; when you get to a certain point with characters you want to see them grow up, I guess. |
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Post by Daedalus on Dec 23, 2014 18:02:46 GMT
I do hope the story stretches out to the later years of Annie and Kat's schooling; when you get to a certain point with characters you want to see them grow up, I guess. My pipe dream is that Tom will follow out protagonists until the Next Generation goes to the Court (or the Court is destroyed in the robot uprising, though I don't think that is Tom's style). But I do recognize how long that would take. I also want to see Dresden Codak's Dark Science finished without a time skip. Silly me; that would take like a century. |
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Post by Chancellor on Dec 24, 2014 7:47:32 GMT
I do hope the story stretches out to the later years of Annie and Kat's schooling; when you get to a certain point with characters you want to see them grow up, I guess. My pipe dream is that Tom will follow out protagonists until the Next Generation goes to the Court (or the Court is destroyed in the robot uprising, though I don't think that is Tom's style). But I do recognize how long that would take. I also want to see Dresden Codak's Dark Science finished without a time skip. Silly me; that would take like a century. *Sees "Biweekly updates" on Diaz's patreon page if the donations add up to a few hundred bucks more* That's the reason (among many others) that I'll never be able to really get into Dresden Codak. Because there's a serious possibility that I or the author will die of old age before Dark Science is finished. |
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Post by TBeholder on Dec 24, 2014 18:50:25 GMT
My pipe dream is that Tom will follow out protagonists until the Next Generation goes to the Court (or the Court is destroyed in the robot uprising, though I don't think that is Tom's style). Of course. It should be the mad fairy uprising! |
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Post by todd on Dec 24, 2014 23:46:36 GMT
The ending I'm tempted to imagine (if the comic really did conclude with the end of the Court) would be Annie and Kat persuading the adults at Gunnerkrigg to give up their delvings into etheric science and move back into the regular human world, allowing the deserted Court buildings to fall into ruin and be reclaimed by the forest (presumably with the gulf between the Court and the Wood sealed up again) - though I don't think that's too likely, largely because of the theme of a reconciliation between the two worlds that runs through the webcomic.
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