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Post by La Poire on Mar 10, 2007 20:14:06 GMT
I suspect the robots have some sort of strict hierarchy, and the topbot controls the tocs! Boxbots are on the bottom of robot society, of course.
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Post by owl on Mar 10, 2007 22:08:21 GMT
Yeah! And new robots (ones that havent been recycled from old robots) appear sometimes to keep the peace. They are from the Nice Man and are immediately welcomed on pain of becoming paperclips.
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Post by neal on Mar 11, 2007 5:50:47 GMT
I think they have a Borg Queen-like entity ruling them. She is really creepy, and will attempt to assimilate Annie in an attempt to refresh the thought processes and maybe gain her innate abilities!
Also, I think this chapter is a plot device to make Annie look less calm in contrast with actual robots with no emotions.
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Post by La Poire on Mar 11, 2007 14:03:43 GMT
Also, I think this chapter is a plot device to make Annie look less calm in contrast with actual robots with no emotions. I think it's going to be more of a plot device for conversation between Annie and Reynardine, actually, but yes, her calmness doesn't seem all that impressive anymore, and probably will deteriorate even further as the chapter progresses. I'm also really hoping for something towards an explanation of the Court, but I know that would be a bit too wild. |
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Post by UbiquitousDragon on Mar 11, 2007 23:16:42 GMT
Also, I think this chapter is a plot device to make Annie look less calm in contrast with actual robots with no emotions. Hmm, but she did think Robot was dead and made into paperclips--and it would have been her fault 'cause she sent him away from the Court. Err, that's not particularly wild, is it ... Reynardine will fall in love with the Borg-like Queen, 'cause one is needed really. And there'll be a cameo appearence from Patrick Stewart (hey, a girl can dream!). |
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Post by todd on Mar 23, 2007 22:38:25 GMT
Here's one wild speculation, based on my observation elsewhere about the way that Annie looks in Panel 4 of the most recent instalment:
When Reynardine took on his "great wolf" form, he secretly infected Annie with something that will gradually change her into a werewolf, as his nefarious scheme to corrupt her and thereby free himself from her hold over him. That's why she's got such a wild expression upon her face (though she doesn't even suspect anything as yet).
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Post by La Poire on Mar 24, 2007 0:13:14 GMT
Of course. Annie being a werewolf makes perfect sense! The only thing stopping her from transforming will be her necklace, of course, as silver (I'm assuming it's silver) tends to annoy werewolfs to the point of death.
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Post by owl on Mar 24, 2007 1:11:29 GMT
Yeah, suddenly she has EMOTIONS. That must be the lycanthropy!
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Post by todd on Mar 24, 2007 2:15:51 GMT
It's not the emotions part that prompted that wild speculation. It's that the smile on her face is more like that of a wild animal than the one on the previous page where she's happily thanking the robot-administrator. (Of course, I think that it simply looks more feral than Tom intended it to be.)
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Post by owl on Mar 24, 2007 2:22:23 GMT
Bah! You and your reason have no place in this thread!
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Post by mrw on Mar 24, 2007 2:38:51 GMT
Display of emotion is but the first sign of infection by Reynardine's lycanthropic fur of DOOM. Bwahahahahaaaa!
Before long she will become an Emo Furry and Eglamore will have no choice but to relocate her to Namir Deiter.
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Post by todd on Mar 24, 2007 10:52:47 GMT
What's Namir Deiter?
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Post by mrw on Mar 24, 2007 13:26:02 GMT
It's a webcomic starring anthropomorphic animal-humans who are living very human lives. There's a lot of dwelling on feelings, relationships and emotions, hence the "emo" reference. Totally different venue than GC, but worth a look. www.namirdeiter.com/archive/index.php(It's also the first hit if you Google "namir") |
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Post by yeochild on Mar 26, 2007 18:17:33 GMT
Idea, idea!!
Broadus got me thinking: what if Zimmy's science fair project wasn't confiscated because it was dangerous, but because it was USEFUL? The Gunnerkrigg biologists are/were in league with TVNM, and infected Robot's body with Zimmy's creation. Her "It's not dangerous, you prats!" could have had an omitted qualifier of "Well . . . unless you're a robot, of course. THEN it might cause you to push your mommy off a bridge, have her saved by a lot of robot birds and get her nearly killed by a mostly-hallucinatory ghost-girl."
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Post by mrw on Mar 26, 2007 19:13:02 GMT
(Insert dark, dramatic epiphany music here) Yeochild, I think you might be on to something here... sounds very X-files-ish...
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 27, 2007 0:44:55 GMT
Conspiracy theorists unite! I like it. It's very convoluted; perfect for this comic.
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 28, 2007 2:13:14 GMT
Ok, speaking of Zimmy, has this theory been put out already?
Zimmy is a Suicide Fairy who passed the test. Gamma too, maybe, but less likely. Zimmy died in her fairy form, and was born in Birmingham until the GC Brass came to take her to the school--and give her her just rewards for managing to die.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Mar 28, 2007 4:52:55 GMT
Careful with the double posts- this forum does have a edit button.
Not really sure I like that idea much, the Suicide Faeries state that they go straight to Gunner's Krag, as if they'd been told that it would happen. I'm also pretty sure that they don't turn into the students.
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 28, 2007 4:54:27 GMT
Apologies for the DP...and didn't the fairies say something about "new bodies?" That might not mean students, I guess, but Tom seemed to imply that.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Mar 28, 2007 4:57:08 GMT
Eh, they said 'is this what our new bodies look like? I think i'm going ot have to go on a diet." << not a direct quote.
I got the impression that they didn't exactly know whether they were going to get new bodies or not.
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Post by owl on Mar 31, 2007 17:53:19 GMT
I got the impression that yes, they were going straight to Gunner's Krag, but that they had absolutely NO idea what it was like. So that would mean (like us, actually) they have no idea what kind of people live there...and what they would be like when they did.
Which doesn't point one way or the other on the student thing, though.
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Post by yeochild on Mar 31, 2007 20:14:04 GMT
New bodies . . . now, who says these new forms have to be made especially FOR the fairies? Wouldn't it be easier to just use some pre-made ones that are already hanging around? And who says that each fairy gets only ONE body? Thus, I submit that REYNARDINE is a passed-on suicide fairy, though maybe not a typical example of one. He gets angry about Robot explaining about TVNM because TVNM knew what a sickeningly cute creature Rey was back in the Suicide Fairy days. I am a fount of bizarre and baseless ideas, no?
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Post by Count Casimir on Apr 1, 2007 2:39:25 GMT
Hmm...that seems like a stretch, even for the WS thread. Maybe he is a passed on fairy, but...
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Post by owl on Apr 1, 2007 5:26:00 GMT
Nah, NOTHING's too much of a stretch for this thread....that doesn't mean I don't doubt that theory, yeochild, I just admit that it does have a place here...
So here's one: TVNM is an alchemist who made Reynardine from Mercury and ghosts and eyeballs. He sent Renardine to the Court for him to cause chaos, bring Annie to TVNM, or whatever other sinister purposes he felt needed carrying out. He couldn't go himself because of something to do with Annan Waters...but once Rey was there, he learned that TVNM wasn't QUITE so nice, so he turned against him - but not before he'd killed Sivo. He intentionally took Annie's Wolf Doll, and is acting like he hates it so that TVNM (who is watching through the Tic-Tocs) can't tell that he;s been betrayed. However, he shows his true loyalty far inside the Court - in the Robot Cortex, for example, where the Thousand Eyes cannot see.
Well? Opinions? (keep in mind it was 1 AM when I wrote this... ;D )
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Post by yeochild on Apr 1, 2007 9:36:40 GMT
Clever, very clever. I don't agree with the entire theory, but the general jist of it . . . Rey being a double-agent who would rather aid Annie . . . makes sense.
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Post by fjodor on Apr 1, 2007 18:46:41 GMT
My idea of Reynardine is that he is really old, like ancient. What if Zimmy and Reynardine are the same species? Body snatchers of some kind, and Zimmy made a wrong choice of body that causes her eyes to clod up so that she can't 'jump'.
When it comes to the very nice man, he did something to robot that caused him to attack Reynardine, and not Annie. Annie got pushed, but Robot's last reaction suggests that he did not mean to kill her. It's likely that there is some sort of feud between Reynardine and the nice man, possibly because of a body Reynardine snatched in the past.
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Post by fjodor on Apr 4, 2007 19:07:10 GMT
Rambling on about the feud-theory: I am wondering about Robot/Shados remark "Oh so this is Reynardine. This makes things so much easier." www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=118On a previous page, Reynardine spots the Shadow attached to Robot and is immediately alarmed. www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=115So I postulate (such a nice word..) that there's some big thing going on between Reynardine and the very nice man, and we'll see a major conflict between forest folk on the one side, and GC robot soldiers on the other side. I *so* hope I am right about this :-) |
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Post by owl on Apr 4, 2007 19:30:47 GMT
Me too, fjodor, me too.
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Post by Count Casimir on Apr 5, 2007 3:33:34 GMT
Guys ('n girls)! Guess what I just found on a French museum website! VV  ^^ Yeah, I got really excited. I clicked on it, it took me to an "accessibility" page. Hmm... |
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Post by UbiquitousDragon on Apr 5, 2007 16:27:16 GMT
Guys ('n girls)! Guess what I just found on a French museum website! VV ^^ Yeah, I got really excited. I clicked on it, it took me to an "accessibility" page. Hmm... I think it's a sign to do with the visually impaired, I've seen it before. But I did think I reconised the No Eyes sign, now I know where from! |
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