Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - June 2015
jheartney:
Observations and questions:
1. We don't know that the regional conflicts that escalated into world war were between bio- and tech- factions. Since Alice mentions war machinery, it could have been AI-enabled factions fighting each other. Or not.
2. "Spaceborne" means "carried in (or by) space." The "new stars" suggests there weren't any habitats in orbit until after the Blink. There was no orbital culture before the war.
3. Gavia and Ardent are from the same Spaceborne culture (in fact they're siblings), and one is bio- and the other tech-. This suggests that it's not a question of Earth=tech- descendants and Orbit=bio- decendants (or the reverse). Both factions were carried into space and the Earth was cleansed of both.
4. The Spaceborne culture is not necessarily any more in control than the Earthborne one. Spaceborne people could be as ignorant as the Earthborne, just living their lives in orbit. (Thus Alice's remark about Praeses not sharing their sap.)
5. Alice says that AI's "began integrating" into the tech- society. So AI's were not necessarily fully identified with the tech- culture. Did the AI's "blink?" And then withdraw?
6. Or was it aliens performing a surgical procedure, slicing away the "cancer" of tech- and bio- factions so that Earth could be left to a sustainable (if somewhat dimwitted) culture?
7. Does Alice perform the same function for the Earthborne as the Praeses perform for the Spaceborne? (i.e. benevolent dictatorial overlords.) You could argue that both Ailce and the Praeses are telepathic. In the case of the Praeses, they answer (or are expected to answer) calls made by their charges from anywhere. In the case of Alice, Alice is thoroughly familiar with the minutiae of in-town social interactions (she knows who wants to date Jebediah before he does) despite rarely leaving her home base.
8. Whatever the setup, Ardent and Gavia's appearance on the surface suggests something's up, and the old order may be about to shift. As Alice notes, neither ought to be able to be present on Earth.
greywolfe:
It's getting very 2001-ish, but also smacks of Trigun (probably because of the potentially plant-based AIs).
Alice as Vash and Knives' younger sister....bad news XD
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 14 Jun 2015, 07:32 ---
7. Does Alice perform the same function for the Earthborne as the Praeses perform for the Spaceborne? (i.e. benevolent dictatorial overlords.) You could argue that both Ailce and the Praeses are telepathic. In the case of the Praeses, they answer (or are expected to answer) calls made by their charges from anywhere. In the case of Alice, Alice is thoroughly familiar with the minutiae of in-town social interactions (she knows who wants to date Jebediah before he does) despite rarely leaving her home base.
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I don't think Alice is telepathic, just really observant and has thousands of years of experience reading body language.
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 11 Jun 2015, 23:14 ---
--- Quote from: SubaruStephen on 11 Jun 2015, 22:42 ---So Alice is either a genetically super enhanced human, or she's more human than human.
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Perhaps a super freak.
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Yow.
http://loopthetube.com/#QYHxGBH6o4M&start=149.4&end=151.80
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: dexeron on 12 Jun 2015, 06:36 ---I'm calling it now.
Alice is Pintsize.
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dangit you beat me to it!
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