Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - June 2015
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: osaka on 02 Jun 2015, 17:02 ---So apparently Alice isn't human by any definition of the word, if we're going by what Amos says.
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Well, he didn't say that. He said she weren't natural. That could mean 'augmented-human' as easily as anything else.
jheartney:
I don't see Alice as having anything like the Three (or Four) Laws built in, if only because her charges (the planet-bound humans) are not a complete representation of humanity. All the ones we've seen are two-dimensional hicks - pulling their forelocks in amazement as Alice threatens/cajoles/protects them. They seem to be deliberately anachronistic, as the far more advanced space culture has cut them off from exposure to anything non-rural. Ardent and Gavia, for all their immaturity, are far more educated and sophisticated than any of the locals besides Alice. Even the town elder, in his talk revealing what he thinks of Alice, ends up defending the idea that history should be misremembered.
If this comic is ever to have any compelling drama, it'll have to come from Alice (rather than the local yokels), and it'll need her to face someone (or multiple someones) who can be her equal. So far no one like that has appeared in the comic. All we have are townspeople and the two siblings, whom she effortlessly cows.
cesium133:
I'm wondering if it could be a scenario sort of like A Canticle for Leibowitz, where humanity has, in the wake of a major disaster, decided to destroy all technology, except in this case the technology is preserved by a subset of humanity in space. The ones left behind, though, after several generations, have forgotten all about the technology, and so what Alice does looks like magic to them. Amos, on the other hand, may be from the original generation that destroyed the technology to begin with... which would explain his apparent hostility to Alice and his suggestion that things are best left forgotten.
Method of Madness:
You think it happened that recently?
cesium133:
Oh. Heh. I guess that would contradict the whole Alice-being-thousands-of-years-old thing.
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