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Post by Refugee on Oct 10, 2008 23:46:01 GMT
Reread Tom's note below that comic: Gah, I forgot about that. Damn. I really don't want Zimmy to be bad. I don't want Gamma to be attached to the bad person Zimmy tries so hard to be. I also want Annie to be able to trust her instincts, and her instincts say, Zimmy is not to be trusted. Very disturbing, all of it, and I'm impatient to see Zimmy and Gamma's fate. === About who to rescue first: It might have been a matter of trust -- if, as chibisoma points out, Zimmy needs Gamma to get them back out, Annie might well have feared that if they found Gamma first, Zimmy would have abandoned Annie and Kat.
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Post by inhumandecency on Oct 11, 2008 0:03:41 GMT
I had the tab with GC open for a while while I checked other webcomics and stuff (saving it for last) and when I closed the last tab before GC I forgot what I was looking at and was really confused til I saw Gamma! haha, that happened to me too! I'd even read the speculation from people who thought that was Gamma glowing off in the distance, but I still wasn't prepared for this. I hope that when this chapter of GC is collected in print, there's a page-turn between the previous page and this one. It would be a shame to ruin the surprise. Given all that, who was really being more selfish in demanding that her partner be found first [ 460.7]? Hate to say it, but I think Annie kinda blew it here. (In story terms, of course, that's a good thing -- it keeps her from being a Mary Sue.) Very much agreed. Annie wasn't making the most strategically correct move, but it's true to her character. She's reserved enough that you might not see it, but the idea of losing Kat probably freaks her out about as badly as Zimmy would freak over losing Gamma. I think Annie probably also felt obligated to reciprocate Kat's no-holds-barred rescue effort from that night on the bridge. In that sense she's just being loyal, thought at the cost of being compassionate (not acknowledging that Zimmy is just as concerned as she is). I think it's a particularly modernist thing to assume that either virtue should have been subordinated to the question of what makes the most pragmatic sense. I mean, I think they should have been, but every once in a while I like to try on my deontic ethics lenses and see how different things look. Tangentially, I found it endearing that Annie is so instantaneously and overwhelmingly happy when Kat shows up on her own. Some people might have gotten too invested in the idea of being the big hero, and had a little bit of trouble switching gears. Really, everyone is acting pretty admirably in this chapter, considering the trying circumstances. (Zimmy's whole life is a trying circumstance.)
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Post by idonotlikepeas on Oct 11, 2008 3:11:27 GMT
This page is one of the most wonderful things I have ever seen in a comic.
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Post by Refugee on Oct 11, 2008 5:52:16 GMT
Sorry to keep butting in, but man, this installment just keeps sparkin' for me.
"The only thing..." is not Gamma herself -- it's Gamma's smile, directed at Zimmy. Zimmy lives for that smile, and the warm radar love that comes beaming in with it.
This is why I want Zimmy to be healed -- because if she's not, she will end up betraying Gamma, and that's really going to hurt to watch.
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We want to believe, we want so desperately to believe that love will find a way, that love heals, that love is all.
Sometimes it doesn't, though, it doesn't and can't and isn't, and that is always agony to have to watch.
Tom, this is simply one of the most moving stretches of suspense any story teller has ever put me through.
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Zimmy's power is that sometimes she can force her very twisted reality on to select others. But even when she cannot do so fully, she can still project the image of her blasted eyes.
Remember the awful science project, the one on the microsope?
I don't think there was anything on that stage at all, just a blank slide -- and the force of Zimmy's will that anyone who looked through the lens would be disgusted.
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OK, I think I'm done again. For now.
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Post by Goatmon on Oct 11, 2008 23:51:16 GMT
D'awwwwing pretty hard at this, you guys.
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