Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - February 2015
SomeCanadianWeirdo:
So, what's the chance the flower in the latest strip chimes in with something next strip?
Neko_Ali:
Hmmm.. Perhaps it's a Praeses remote terminal? Say, supposing the Praeses are named after genus of trees because they are actually intelligent tree caretakers. Each overlooking their own grove, but all interconnected via plant-fiber network. Actually I started this as a joke... but I don't know. It has some appeal as a concept, and fits what we know before. That they would be referred to as 'it'. They would be incredibly long lived, could easily be 'awake' all the time and so expected to respond. They would need volunteer caretakers to deal with things they couldn't do, being immobile plant life. They could be sufficiently alien in thought patterns that it would be thought impossible to trick them. Possibly Alice's Grove (and others like them) aren't like a zoo.. but rather a colony or reclamation project. The people 'up there' have become so dependent on the Praeses and tech advanced enough to have super powers and changed your body on a genetic level, they've lost touch with nature. So you have these colonies, set down and left to develop naturally, with minimal tech for generations. An intelligent tree can certainly afford to take a long view planning approach. And the Viccisitudes have been tricked into coming down here so they can experience what natural life is like.
Talk about your literal epileptic tree....
Thrudd:
I kept banging my head and wracking my brains because it all sounds oh so familiar - then I looked at my anime shelf and the title jumped out at me - Tenchi Muyo!
Kugai:
But I don't think Alice is Tenchi
Neko_Ali:
Nah, that's Jack's job.
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