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WCDT: 2598-2602 (16-20 December 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
akronnick:
I think this pretty much takes care of Pintsize's obsession with cake batter.
Actually, that probably explains most of Pintsize's behavior. And if that doesn't work, there's always this :evil:
RightInTheSquishyParts:
--- Quote ---and that still doesn't explain the cake mix.
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Perhaps at the point those gags were written (cake mix, tomato sauce) Jeph hadn't fleshed things out in regards to AnthroPC life and civilization. We are trying to backfit and rationalize what may have very well been done for the laughs.
I see this all the time in Star Trek "canon" discussions. "When they wrote this episode of this show were they not aware it would later conflict with what was going to be written later on." It's easy to look back over 40 years of TV and assume that there has been some master-plot-meta-plan.... when in fact the writers and producers themselves said there is not. They simply write a story and fit it into the show.... and if there is some resemblance of a 40 year meta-plot-line it's pure accident. This, incidentally is why I hate the new Trek Novels, as they try to do exactly this.
Back to the comic. I don't think Jeph had the year 2014 and nearly 3000 strips on his mind the day he sat down and wrote the cake mix jokes. Or the one where Pintsize ate tomato-sauce.
DrBear:
Just came in to see what the kerfuffle quotient was with the new design. Looks like everyone is taking it in stride, I'm happy to see.
(personally, I never really liked the pink, blocky title; the new one is subtler. As for the page size, it will take getting used to but I agree, Jeph's improvement in art skills deserves a larger area in which to shine. Wouldn't necessarily have liked this format during, say, the first 200 strips.)
J:
--- Quote from: RightInTheSquishyParts on 17 Dec 2013, 22:22 ---
--- Quote ---and that still doesn't explain the cake mix.
--- End quote ---
Perhaps at the point those gags were written (cake mix, tomato sauce) Jeph hadn't fleshed things out in regards to AnthroPC life and civilization. We are trying to backfit and rationalize what may have very well been done for the laughs.
I see this all the time in Star Trek "canon" discussions. "When they wrote this episode of this show were they not aware it would later conflict with what was going to be written later on." It's easy to look back over 40 years of TV and assume that there has been some master-plot-meta-plan.... when in fact the writers and producers themselves said there is not. They simply write a story and fit it into the show.... and if there is some resemblance of a 40 year meta-plot-line it's pure accident. This, incidentally is why I hate the new Trek Novels, as they try to do exactly this.
Back to the comic. I don't think Jeph had the year 2014 and nearly 3000 strips on his mind the day he sat down and wrote the cake mix jokes. Or the one where Pintsize ate tomato-sauce.
--- End quote ---
oh, that's undoubtedly the case, but since jeph chose to start exploring the larger philosophical issues of AI, i think it's fair game to look at how they gel or don't with earlier events within the same continuity. not necessarily for the purposing of picking the story apart, but rather to shine a different light on the issues as they stand. identifying things that don't quite make sense can help build a more coherent picture of what does.
cesium133:
So am I the only one bothered a bit by the lack of a punchline in this comic?
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