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Post by todd on Jul 2, 2017 0:17:56 GMT
As for Juliette, who knows how they would punish her for her attempt to leave in such a way? Surely they wouldn't turn HER into paperclips - that would be gruesome. But I do have a feeling that this won't end happily for these poor lovers. So far, we haven't seen any sign of what the Court's punishment is for adults who go against it (except maybe Jeanne, and she was an unusual case - put to death more for "reasons of state" than for punishment). Of course, so far, we haven't seen any adult characters openly defying the Court and being caught at it. Execution would be too severe (and the Court would have to handle it carefully from the PR perspective, even if it took that approach). Imprisonment? Demotion? Exile? (Maybe not that last one - for one thing, it would make a strange punishment for someone trying to run away - like giving the death penalty for attempted suicide.) Not to mention the question of how crucial Jeliette's skills are to the everyday administration of the Court. |
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Post by aline on Jul 2, 2017 20:14:36 GMT
I doubt it, but it might deprive them from the means to do it. There's probably some mechanism in the robot's bodies that warns the Court when they try to leave. There was no alarm going off when Robot left the Court in his original S13 body. However, when Annie left school grounds, the siren immediately started blaring. Also, if the robot's bodies had such a mechanism, the Court is full of people who could build new bodies without built-in surveillance. If their CPUs are bugged, however, not even a biological body would help. Robot's original body was paperclipped after he returned, but by then he had been in the Forest for several months. I'm pretty sure the Court would have done something about one of their robots being in the Forest, had they known about it. It's not because there was no alarm that no one noticed. It's a good point about just building any other body, though. If Arthur needs a biological body to leave, there must be something about a robotic body that makes it easy to detect and isn't easy to get rid of. Possibly their power source? The Court wouldn't necessarily need to do something about a robot going into the Forest. Its creatures hate every form of technology. It's very unlikely the Forest people would either let a robot through, or allow it to live happily ever after. If someone did notice Robot leaving, they probably expected he'd be teared to pieces and shrugged. |
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Post by todd on Jul 2, 2017 23:42:22 GMT
The Court wouldn't necessarily need to do something about a robot going into the Forest. Its creatures hate every form of technology. It's very unlikely the Forest people would either let a robot through, or allow it to live happily ever after. If someone did notice Robot leaving, they probably expected he'd be teared to pieces and shrugged. Except the forest-folk might misinterpret such an event as an intrusion from the Court and express their displeasure (as indeed happened in Chapter Fourteen), and the Court would certainly expect such an event and not want to face a diplomatic incident. As I said, more likely the Court's failure to act (apart from the fact that, if it *had* stopped Robot from entering the forest, there'd have been a lot less story) stemmed from Tom probably not having worked out all the details about the Court, the Wood, and the rest of the setting when he was writing the first chapter. We know that one of the characters in that chapter, a stuffy anonymous teacher who fails to notice Shadow2's presence throughout, received no further development, and Tom once said that he wouldn 't have included the man if he was redoing that chapter today. |
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