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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 22, 2024 7:14:42 GMT
As expected, Robot was behind the Torn Sea incident. Also, Antimony didn't suspect a thing. ...and the barnacles are back |
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Post by arf on Mar 22, 2024 7:19:19 GMT
This might explain *why* there are barnacles...
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 22, 2024 7:35:42 GMT
This might explain *why* there are barnacles... Yeah I'm thinking that the barnacles fouling the flight feathers is a representation of what Robot is hung up on. Looks like they're going to have to be scraped off which is a bit of a shame because I liked the idea of them as filter feeders gathering ether to complete Robot's new body or something along those lines. We probably won't know for absolute certain until this sequence is over, though. That reminds me, I think I saw a short vid post somewhere on the internets within the last few months about someone who found an old barnacle scraper (a small piece of old wood with a big bunch of rusty nails pounded into it) buried in the sand on a beach and they were convinced that they'd found a booby-trap someone made. |
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Post by Igniz on Mar 22, 2024 8:23:58 GMT
I think that the barnacles' presence is also because Robot's main accomplice and co-conspirator will turn out to be a sponge that lives in a pineapple under the sea. I think the shock value will come on Friday, when Annie sees "It was worth it" repeated by the seraphs following the ship incident.  (Though it was less shocking than we thought) Having grown up a bit since the last time, I think her reaction this time will be more assertive.  |
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Post by storyteller on Mar 22, 2024 12:21:03 GMT
I rather hope that the narrative remembers that Robot didn't stop. This isn't just something that happened five years ago but things he'd been actively doing not so long ago the pieces are falling down now - but Robot didn't stop.
Which to be honest - I rather suspect is coming home next week. We are now at Torn Sea aka kinda the half way point of the narrative it feels like. That's when Robot escalated to doing stuff... And i don't believe we know what he's been up to since.
So while this is bad - following information drops might be worse
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Post by saardvark on Mar 22, 2024 12:54:41 GMT
Not sure if someone pointed this out already, but the barnacles sort of look like warped organic (NP!) versions of seraph eyes. Robot has thought himself a prophet of the Angel, a robot John-the-Baptist type, a shower-of-the-way. But the barnacles infesting the angel wings seem to indicate that he now sees that he is just another corrupt and corrupted seraph, doing dubious things in the name of good.
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Post by ctso74 on Mar 22, 2024 13:13:00 GMT
"our love for her that makes us act in strange ways"
Who can say if it means anything, but that's some Diego crap, right there.
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Post by pyradonis on Mar 22, 2024 13:54:05 GMT
Just in case someone was still doubting that S13 had devised the plan for the Torn Sea incident.
Having grown up a bit since the last time, I think her reaction this time will be more assertive. Yeeeeaaaaahhhh... |
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Post by blahzor on Mar 22, 2024 15:13:38 GMT
dumb brains never could come up with their own plan
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Post by Gemini Jim on Mar 22, 2024 15:52:41 GMT
I never noticed before, so maybe I'm late to the party, but I like how Robot's hoodie looks especially like a monk's cowl or something in this one.
It's like the whole history of religion summed up in one robot cult, and now the leader seeks penance.
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Post by feliszerda on Mar 22, 2024 17:59:03 GMT
"our love for her that makes us act in strange ways" Who can say if it means anything, but that's some Diego crap, right there. It is some Diego crap, in fact, if only by extension. |
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Post by silicondream on Mar 22, 2024 18:33:30 GMT
"our love for her that makes us act in strange ways" Who can say if it means anything, but that's some Diego crap, right there. In fact, it's something Kat told the robots about Diego, well before The Torn Sea. And while the robots thought her comment was super-profound and had their "finest minds" analyzing its meaning, what they didn't take away from it--and, in fairness, what Kat never explicitly added--was that behavior like this was an unacceptable expression of love. So it's not that surprising that they took her comment as a prescription or prediction, rather than as a warning of what not to do. I think it's significant that most of the robots identify as male. Most boys love and respect their mothers, but they identify more with their fathers--even if they don't like their fathers very much, or think they're shitty people. It's hard to break that habit of using the same-gender parent as a role model...probably especially for the Robot and the other Seraphs, who know that they were literally designed in Diego's image, and who were built to help the other 'bots follow the will of the Creators. *EDIT* I don't know if they'd be receptive to it, but I don't think we've ever seen anyone straight-out tell the robots, "What Diego did here was wrong, and you can choose to be different." |
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Post by drmemory on Mar 22, 2024 19:02:36 GMT
I think we're still seeing recent events, events that Annie already knew something about. Not the roots of Robot's actions nor why he is experiencing remorse. Not complaining, I'm delighted to see some blanks filled in.  I just think there is more to come in Robot's sharing session. |
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Post by Gemminie on Mar 22, 2024 20:20:56 GMT
Annie is looking upset at these revelations from Robot about how he's been the instigator of the Cult of the Angel. Kat and Annie knew the robots and now the New People have been considering Kat their angel for some time, but it's seemed that they were assuming it was just a term of endearment, or at the very least, if they suspected it was an actual religious movement, they were assuming that it had formed organically without any particular instigation from anyone. But now Annie knows that Robot was actively promoting it. And then we come to this page. Now Robot tells Annie how he and the seraph bots planned the entire chapter 49 incident. We begin with a scene we never saw, where Robot is explaining the plan to the seraphs. But then we're seeing the post-"Torn Sea" scene where Robot talks to the seraphs and gets them to accept that it was worth the consequences – this scene told us, the readers, that Robot had been part of that whole plan. Intercut with this are Annie and Shadow looking surprised at this revelation, and later, Annie sadly saying, "Oh, Robot ..." But is it an "Oh, Robot, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to convert this body to paperclips as well ..." or "Oh, Robot, it does no good to dwell on how badly you messed up; the only question is what you're going to do to fix it now?" Or, of course, something else? What is Annie feeling right now? On the previous page she looked angry. On this page she looks shocked at first, then sad. Maybe it's just, "Oh, Robot, I thought you were my friend. How could you have gone so wrong?" Maybe it's going to be "I'm not the one you need to apologize to." The framing is still made of metallic-looking feathers and barnacles; no cilia this time. Barnacles are a very good symbol for Robot here; they're not actually parasites (well, some species are), but they're sessile filter-feeders; once they attach themselves to something they stay there and let their host do the traveling for them, feeding on what comes in range. Robot's latched onto the Angel mythology he's created and is just passively taking advantage of it without running risks or doing much himself. The question is what happens now? Are there more revelations about what Robot thinks he needs to do penance for? Or will the discussion turn to what kind of penance he should do? Suppose Sam's entry into the Ether with his belief in Kat-as-Angel does in fact cause Kat to change. Suppose it happens retroactively – just like the stars having existed for billions of years but Coyote having a clear memory of throwing them into the sky, what if Kat's always been a human girl who's Annie's friend but Kat and all the New People start remembering that she's actually the Angel? |
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 23, 2024 2:01:21 GMT
Zimmy probably is not very happy with him right now, either.
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Post by Storel on Mar 23, 2024 19:16:21 GMT
Ohhh, myyy. [/takei]
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Post by Igniz on Mar 24, 2024 10:25:14 GMT
[...]Robot and the other Seraphs, who know that they were literally designed in Diego's ideal image...  |
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Post by silicondream on Mar 25, 2024 2:26:05 GMT
[...]Robot and the other Seraphs, who know that they were literally designed in Diego's ideal image... I'm sure Jeanne would have fallen for him if his head were sufficiently box-shaped. |
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Post by Igniz on Mar 25, 2024 10:52:26 GMT
Indeed. That's why everyone in the Court likes Boxbot!  |
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Post by silicondream on Mar 25, 2024 17:25:19 GMT
Indeed. That's why everyone in the Court likes Boxbot! The important thing is to have 1) a box-shaped body part and 2) legs. The first without the second is an abomination. |
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Post by Igniz on Mar 25, 2024 19:56:46 GMT
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I just think there is more to come in Robot's sharing session.
