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WCDT Strips 3401-3405 (23rd to 27th January 2017)

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Is it cold in here?:
EG's reaction and facial expression make it believable that success was genuinely important to them and that failure left them too gut-punched to keep up the swagger.

Getting back to what Zoe said about the Creepy Collective's values, they don't intervene in poverty, anti-robot racism, or unfair treatment by parole departments. But let them catch word of a mind-rape and the gloves come off. I can respect that.

So, does Officer Basilisk re-appear? After a mysterious leak triggers a corruption scandal that sends several of her superiors to prison? The EG collective does seem to prefer working in the shadows.

Storel:
Anticlimactic is the word, all right. I just didn't expect Creepybot's utility suite to be so powerful that breaking a powerful encryption and overcoming protective malware would be so easy that Emily -- who, we thought, was selected for her quirky brilliance, for what she could add to the fight -- never had to do anything more than turn a key and pull a trigger. And then to find there's simply nothing there on top of that? Huh.

I guess Emily was selected more for her emotional detachment than her brilliance -- that Creepybot figured if the memories were still there, Emily would be less likely to be traumatized by them than, say, Faye. Which makes sense, in a way; anybody who could be that blase about vomiting probably is less prone to emotional trauma than most people. But still, some explanations would have been nice.

Zog:
It looks to me as if Creepybot left behind her tools. Maybe Emily will go back in and find the memories.

BenRG:
No, sorry Jeph. I fully understand the desire on your part to fast-track this part of Bubbles' story and move on to its consequences. I also understand the urge to introduce an interesting new character when they pop into your brain. However, the whole way this arc has been handled has just been on long narrative hand-wave. Simply put, there was no need to use Creepybot whatsoever. It would have been just as simple to use existing characters like Station and 'one of my colleagues who has an out-of-the-box idea on how to fix this'. This would avoid creating expectations for the Creepybot character that are never going to be fulfilled.

Okay, that aside, it looks like Jeph is going with the 'the memories were erased - be it malice or incompetence matters not' angle (once again downgrading Corpse Witch as a threat by several notches). I think it's pretty obvious that the rest of this week will be Faye trying to help Bubbles come to terms with the fact that she's lost some very important things; she'll never remember her squad-mates faces or be able to recall their fates, something that I'm sure was important to her as remembering them would give their sacrifice meaning. It's hard to understate just how devastating that fact will be to her.

Yeah, I'm disappointed in this outcome. Jeph could have done some excellent things with this character and this set-up but chose to just use it as window-dressing for a hand-wave of the whole dilemma. I guess we need to move forwards but I'm sorry to say that this was one of his worse arcs because of how it was handled and how it was resolved.

anahata:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 23 Jan 2017, 23:27 ---I'm disappointed in this outcome. Jeph could have done some excellent things with this character and this set-up but chose to just use it as window-dressing for a hand-wave of the whole dilemma. I guess we need to move forwards but I'm sorry to say that this was one of his worse arcs because of how it was handled and how it was resolved.

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I'm open to the possibility that it's not fully resolved, and that the inclusion of EG in the plot is going to be relevant to what follows.
If it does fizzle out meaninglessly, I'll be disappointed too...

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