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WCDT December 15-19, 2014 (2855-2859)
Baphomet:
Why is she mentally ill, now? Clinton says her program displayed eldritch runes, then prompted government agents to show up and EMP it. She says the program made satellites be friends and that the government threatened her family if she revealed its secrets. Outlandish though it may sound, her story checks out. I mean, this is also the comic where a perverted robot got access to a military laser chest cannon because a sentient truck was having sex with another truck. I could buy "The satellites' view from the stars gives them insight into the dark horrors of space undreamt-of by man" about as readily as "an A.I. achieved apotheosis and magically put a farewell message on all computers, even those not connected to the internet, as it ascended to a higher plane of existence," which is also another thing which has been established as part of the history of this comic universe.
Her "Clinnnn-tonnn" thing is weird, yeah. I knew people in high school who behaved similarly. Most of them disappeared by college, but I suppose I could see some having kept the "quirkiness" that long. Especially if she's playing the "so smart she's dumb" archetype, which she might be given her apparent skill at...artificial orbital intelligence psychology? Let's just say "programming".
I dunno. I don't exactly like her character, but I don't think she needs some kind of clinical diagnosis to belong in the world the comic takes place in.
MrNumbers:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Dec 2014, 23:57 ---She is one of those powerful but vulnerable minds that could be misused by the unscrupulous. I think, eventually, she'll be imprisoned on the space-station to protect her from misuse.
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I'm seriously thinking of Leonard of Quirm from Terry Pratchett's Discworld right now.
Doodling things like guns and bombs in the margins of automatic vegetable peeler patents because nobody could be horrible enough to actually use one. Of course not. Just an interesting mental exercise.
Of course, Emily is more of the Pinkie from My Little Pony flavour of this brilliant madness, or Nora from RWBY, both of which I believe are incredibly polarizing but whom I love dearly.
hedgie:
And the real secret is that Emily, despite being a bit odd is actually trolling everyone.
brown paper bag:
There's a quote from Alan Moore which kind of describes my issue with some of Jeph's writing. I think he does extremely well with 99% of his characters and story arcs, but sometimes he throws something (or someone) in which strains credibility for me:
"In my work as an author, I traffic in fiction. I do not traffic in lies. Although I'll admit the distinction is a nice one, and perhaps not easy for the layman to make. With fiction, with art and writing, it's important that even if you're dealing with areas of complete outrageous fantasy, that there is an emotional resonance. It is important that a story ring true upon a human level, even if it never happened."
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Baphomet on 15 Dec 2014, 03:13 ---Why is she mentally ill, now? Clinton says her program displayed eldritch runes, then prompted government agents to show up and EMP it. She says the program made satellites be friends and that the government threatened her family if she revealed its secrets. Outlandish though it may sound, her story checks out.
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This is not funny. It's as unfunny as someone's father blowing his brains out in front of his daughter.
If we're lucky, there will be a serious story arc exploring psychosis, and how psychotics can be helped by understanding and compassion.
If we're very lucky, the Elder Gods will be involved instead.
If we're unlucky, the QCverse has a dark side, where parents of those who know too much really do get killed by the "good guys", and prisoners get tortured.
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