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Post by imaginaryfriend on May 15, 2023 5:05:19 GMT
I guess by the time they knew for sure Jerrek was "Loup" he'd been running around loose for a good while and hadn't really done anything bad (unless Piter is dead somewhere). He may have even been helpful sometimes (though helpful failing to trap "Loup" doesn't count). They probably figured that as long as he wanted to stay disguised he would have to keep from doing bad stuff and therefore was effectively self-restrained already, so they'd just let this game play out. As soon as Jerrek announced he was "Loup" the game was over; that announcement could be a cue he would begin doing stuff they wouldn't like, therefore immediate and probably pre-planned zappage. I understand that reasoning though I think that was an error as Jerrek had something he wanted to communicate at that moment and there probably wasn't any risk in hearing him out before caging him. Of course I think that it's very likely that Robot made that bargain knowing that Kat and/or Antimony was already planning to let Jerrek run loose as long as he maintained the disguise, and he probably verified Jerrek was "Loup" at the request of one or both girls, therefore they already know about "the traitor" so there probably isn't anything to gain either... but they don't know that for 100% sure. Essentially they traded whatever Jerrek was going to say before they caged him, along with a better chance for maybe talking things out amicably, for a better chance at trapping him. (shrug)
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Post by grahamf on May 15, 2023 5:52:03 GMT
i suspect that if Kat is doing some administration on the robots then she would've recognized that jerrik wasn't registering with her database correctly (or she noticed that there was one more New Persons then she had converted to them and did an audit.
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Post by pyradonis on May 15, 2023 16:37:55 GMT
Maybe something happened around Ch. 88-89 that wasn't in the comic. Annie had to be awfully suspicious by Chapter 86, page 26. I mean, he was freaking out right in front of her, and then mysteriously ran off. And that was followed by this: Looking at the page you linked, and the two pages after that, Annie is quite obviously not noticing anything about Jerrek. She doesn't look at him, closes her eyes, turns away... and then is visibly surprised, when the two of them suddenly run away.
i suspect that if Kat is doing some administration on the robots then she would've recognized that jerrik wasn't registering with her database correctly (or she noticed that there was one more New Persons then she had converted to them and did an audit. Kat hasn't converted any robot in a long time. S13 was taking care of that. And there's no indication that Kat ever knew how many robots there were before.
This would be the standard sysadmin way of doing things. Sure, but, speaking as a sysadmin, once the number of systems exceeds a certain threshold, they all start blurring together and you can't really keep track of them anymore. I also think that if Kat had a link to, or control over, the NP's, then that would be a pretty serious violation of their privacy and individuality. I just don't think that GC is that sort of comic. Kat grew up in the Court, which is a total surveillance state, filled to the brim with surveillance devices in every house plus tracking its inhabitants through their food and no one except Jack and Tony ever seemed to have any problem with that. Plus, for most of the comic, their good friend Renard was under the direct verbal control of either Annie or Kat, and no one saw anything wrong with that either. So, in my opinion, GC is absolutely that sort of comic. |
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Post by mturtle7 on May 17, 2023 18:24:13 GMT
Sure, but, speaking as a sysadmin, once the number of systems exceeds a certain threshold, they all start blurring together and you can't really keep track of them anymore. I also think that if Kat had a link to, or control over, the NP's, then that would be a pretty serious violation of their privacy and individuality. I just don't think that GC is that sort of comic. Kat grew up in the Court, which is a total surveillance state, filled to the brim with surveillance devices in every house plus tracking its inhabitants through their food and no one except Jack and Tony ever seemed to have any problem with that. Plus, for most of the comic, their good friend Renard was under the direct verbal control of either Annie or Kat, and no one saw anything wrong with that either. So, in my opinion, GC is absolutely that sort of comic. I would agree, except the thing is that Annie and Renard had a whole arc where their relationship shifted from "girl casually using her magical-enslavement powers to keep a mischievous demon in line" to "girl reluctantly keeps her magical-enslavement powers over her spirit friend, at the friend's request"; in other words, she used to be ok with that sort of thing, and then stopped being ok with it (and imho, the comic's overall tone shifted correspondingly). Similarly, Kat may have been 100% blase about the surveillance state at first, but I'm pretty sure that changed once some people sat her down and specifically explained to her why this was bad and dangerous for her. So I'm gonna have to agree with @sky Schemer here, not because the comic isn't that dark, but because it doesn't make sense for the characters at this point. |
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