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Post by l33tninja on Sept 30, 2015 15:18:28 GMT
Coyote knows how to negotiate.
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Post by Trillium on Sept 30, 2015 15:21:19 GMT
Let's hope that the building was indeed empty and that there were no casualties. It would be unsettling storytelling if there were casualties but Tom chose to focus on Annie and Smith and the third character (the rabbit-boy, apparently) rather than on the people who'd been killed by Coyote's tantrum and their grieving friends and family. We already saw the aftermath: lots of rubble, no bodies. Besides, Coyote the almighty god wanted to display his bad mood, not make Fire Head Girl angry at him. Don't you think she would be very angry if he'd been careless enough to pick a building with people in it? And wouldn't it completely ruin the actual point of this scene (Annie freed by her father) to have people actually die because of it? What kind of storyteller would add coffins to this? I'm really not sure why people worry about this, as if it was a serious option that we'd get a mass burial of innocent families next page. The Court has plenty of empty buildings. Coyote picked one of them. He knocks down an empty building, showing his displeasure, hurts no one and leaves the threat hanging. He could next pick one that is occupied. The Lords of the Court don't want to call that bluff if it is one. For Coyote it is win win and as aline points out he doesn't upset Annie. |
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Post by Ombre on Sept 30, 2015 15:50:00 GMT
Mighty Eyebrows and Rabbit! Wonder where Parley is Bam ! |
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Post by vanzetti on Sept 30, 2015 16:21:18 GMT
I wonder how many people in the Court know the whole story? You can't hide a large collapsed building, but are people aware Antimony is related to the accident? Is she going to suffer from Harry Potter publicity?
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Post by goldenknots on Sept 30, 2015 16:39:12 GMT
The idea that the other person is the (former) rabbit would make sense. Perhaps then Annie's promise to Coyote was to take care of him, or at least go greet him? The promise was HERE, to bring the new kid back to visit the fairy. |
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Post by Grabix on Sept 30, 2015 16:40:26 GMT
Isn't this just Parley without her makeup? |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Sept 30, 2015 16:43:53 GMT
I just noticed. The rabbit is playing with the rubik cube shown in the chapter preview. A way to show his intelligence, I suppose. Or he might just be enjoying dem hands  "Who has thumbs and occupies the top of the food chain? This guy! Opposable digits FTW." |
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Post by csj on Sept 30, 2015 17:14:52 GMT
'Oh gee, isn't it fortunate that we cleared every building in the immediate vicinity just in case the dream coyote god thing threw a tantrum.'
'Oh, it most certainly was, nobody got hurt or injured that we deuteragonists know of at all.'
*Cue annie walking in with a mild smile*
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Post by Sadie on Sept 30, 2015 17:15:52 GMT
I'm not all that enthused by that smile. It's too close to this one or these painful efforts. Note the eyebrows reflecting worry/embarrassment -- a big stark contrast to this smile of true delight and enjoyment or even this relaxed " we are having a pleasant conversation here" smile. Annie continues to be without her confidence and self-assurance. I love the switch from Coyote's storytelling to the sudden reality of a collapsed building. Despite the playful nature of the opening narrative, Coyote was not at all messing around. |
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Post by l33tninja on Sept 30, 2015 17:23:35 GMT
I'm not all that enthused by that smile. It's too close to this one or these painful efforts. Note the eyebrows reflecting worry/embarrassment -- a big stark contrast to this smile of true delight and enjoyment or even this relaxed " we are having a pleasant conversation her" smile. Annie continues to be without her confidence and self-assurance. I love the switch from Coyote's storytelling to the sudden reality of a collapsed building. Despite the playful nature of the opening narrative, Coyote was not at all messing around. I agree - that smile doesn't give me any indication that Annie is mended yet. |
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Post by atteSmythe on Sept 30, 2015 17:39:07 GMT
Ahh! Whiplash!
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Post by Daedalus on Sept 30, 2015 18:26:35 GMT
I'm not all that enthused by that smile. It's too close to this one or these painful efforts. Note the eyebrows reflecting worry/embarrassment -- a big stark contrast to this smile of true delight and enjoyment or even this relaxed " we are having a pleasant conversation here" smile. Annie continues to be without her confidence and self-assurance. I love the switch from Coyote's storytelling to the sudden reality of a collapsed building. Despite the playful nature of the opening narrative, Coyote was not at all messing around. To me, it seems more relaxed than before, albeit entirely exhausted. Future pages will tell, however. Either way, she's definitely not fully healed/reunited yet. But I do think that things have improved. Perhaps (probably not, but perhaps) her father's treating her more like a human being now? EDIT: I can't point to anything specific, but it just seems like something in how her eyes are drawn indicates she's just a little less broken. |
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Post by Sadie on Sept 30, 2015 19:15:27 GMT
To me, it seems more relaxed than before, albeit entirely exhausted. Future pages will tell, however. Either way, she's definitely not fully healed/reunited yet. But I do think that things have improved. Perhaps (probably not, but perhaps) her father's treating her more like a human being now? I'D LIKE TO BELIEVE SO! Alas, I'm not really seeing it on the more relaxed front, but that may just be me. The only not-embarrassed smile we've seen from her since this started was when she was trying to please her dad (handing over the finished homework in Sneak) and I'm still undecided on how forced it was or wasn't. All other times, she had hardcore Sad Eyebrows. It's like her eyebrows have taken on the task of apologizing for her existence and are not yet ready to give up the duty. Regardless, I'm happy to see that she is now able to full-fill an important promise. Not entirely trusting it and wondering how the politics and power-plays undoubtedly declared "too boring" by Coyote in his re-cap play into the decision, but happy all the same. |
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Post by lordofpotatoes on Sept 30, 2015 19:28:53 GMT
It's probably the jackalope, but it remains to be seen.
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Post by freeman on Sept 30, 2015 21:15:48 GMT
I just can't wait for the about... two years when Tom finally makes a video about this chapter and tells exactly what house in Birmingham he decided to demolish  Or he might just be enjoying dem hands Obviously, that would be amoungst the first things a hare would do. To me, it seems more relaxed than before, albeit entirely exhausted. Future pages will tell, however.
Exactly, in the " I just had the biggest poop ever, you should have seen" -way. Kind of anti-euphemism even of what just happened.
The painfull process is over and you feel very relieved for that but also somewhat guilty for feeling so good.
As in you have just dropped an immense weight from your persona, your body feels light and spacy.
....Is it always just me, or are you all that much more tactful and mature, or what?
Also, if you happen to be good on picturing things in your mind: shame on you, you shouldn't do that! |
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Post by Refugee on Oct 1, 2015 6:55:10 GMT
I like the way the building just fell over without being demolished. Makes me wonder if, after the robots clear the rubble away, a new one grows in its place. === I like Annie's smile. She has fallen, but is getting back up. She may not be healed, but she is healing. I predict that overall, this experience will be good for Annie. She is not the naive power she was; she understands consequences, including her effects on other people, better than she ever has before, better than any detention could have taught. === "Biggest poop ever." [Questionable Content] |
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Post by csj on Oct 1, 2015 9:59:49 GMT
I love the switch from Coyote's storytelling to the sudden reality of a collapsed building. Despite the playful nature of the opening narrative, Coyote was not at all messing around. Hmm. Let's be fair. Coyote is the sort of being that would totally knock down a skyscraper for shits and giggles. What he sees as important simply doesn't align with the Court; Annie's... 'identity issues' are a bigger priority from his perspective. |
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Post by csj on Oct 1, 2015 10:04:13 GMT
" I just had the biggest poop ever, you should have seen" My satisfying dump face is far more intense. It's serious business. |
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Post by Refugee on Oct 1, 2015 18:20:57 GMT
I love the switch from Coyote's storytelling to the sudden reality of a collapsed building. Despite the playful nature of the opening narrative, Coyote was not at all messing around. Hmm. Let's be fair. Coyote is the sort of being that would totally knock down a skyscraper for shits and giggles. He's willing to knock down an empty shell that looks like a building, one which grew from the Seed Bismuth rather than the concerted effort of hundreds of skilled workmen assembling materials transported from far away at great expense. I get the impression that most of the Court is pretty much an elaborate fungus. |
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Post by corvis on Oct 1, 2015 22:22:06 GMT
Coyote: I want my FIRE HEAD GIRL to come back!
Carver: Why? You're psycho.
Coyote: And you suck as a father. Burn!
Carver: .... Okay.
So glad that we seem to be gearing up to learn that it wasn't quite THAT easy (although Coyote's story-telling rocked.) Monday is such a long way away...
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Post by corvis on Oct 1, 2015 22:28:12 GMT
Coyote making him see what he'd done before? He sees Annie all the time, how could he NOT see what he was doing for weeks (at least, if not Months). "None so blind as those who will not see", naturally. And nothing like preferring to see something else to make you unwilling to see what really is there. In fact the original source of the quotation could be read with an eye not only to Anthony's worldview, but also to the way the Court operates within nature and the Aether: They have eyes, but they see not, ears, but they hear not, like the idols which they made and worshipped, Ps. 115:5, 6, 8. One would have thought that they took notice of things, but really they did not; they had intellectual faculties and capacities, but they did not employ and improve them as they ought. Herein they disappointed the expectations of all their neighbours, who, observing what excellent means of knowledge they had, concluded, Surely they are a wise and an understanding people (Deut. 4:6), and yet really they are a foolish people and without understanding. Note, We cannot judge of men by the advantages and opportunities they enjoy: there are those that sit in darkness in a land of light, that live in sin even in a holy land, that are bad in the best places. 2. Their wills were stubborn and unapt to submit to the rules of the divine law (Jer. 5:23): This people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; and no wonder when they were foolish and without understanding, Ps. 82:5. Nay, it is the corrupt bias of the will that bribes and besots the understanding: none so blind as those that will not see. -- Matthew Henry, Bible CommentaryWell said. |
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Post by Per on Oct 2, 2015 18:31:38 GMT
I like the way the building just fell over without being demolished. Court buildings don't always get knocked down by Coyote, but when they do, they maintain structural integrity. (This was actually a plot point in an old Fantastic Four episode by John Byrne, although it is kind of silly to paint a character as clever for pointing out something that doesn't make sense when the rest of the comic is bound to be saturated with physical absurdity regardless.) If the meeting took place in the usual audience chamber I wonder how this looked to those assembled. Did Coyote just get mad and pop out, a huge crash was heard and then he popped back in again? Or did everyone run to the galleries to look out the windows? Or did Coyote lift off the top of the building for the sake of putting on a good house-poking scene? |
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