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WCDT Strips 3406-3410 (28 January - 3 February 2017)
Kugai:
Sometimes, you have to have faith in something or someone.
Method of Madness:
What you believe or have faith in could change based on what you observe, but I still don't see how the faith or belief themselves are active choices.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 03 Feb 2017, 12:29 ---What you believe or have faith in could change based on what you observe, but I still don't see how the faith or belief themselves are active choices.
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I think that this is one of the best examples of 'choosing to have faith'.
Bubbles didn't need to trust them; she could have rejected their offer. In fact, she made it very clear that she knew them to be untrustworthy: "Your price?" She had a choice, and she made that choice in spite of that evidence: she chose to have faith that they were benevolent in this case.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Cheesefondue on 03 Feb 2017, 00:05 ---As I said, I like this arc. And to those who didn't like it, would it have made you appreciate it more if you knew it was ultimately building up towards a failure? A Deus ex Machina that didn't work?
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But it did. The definition of Deus ex machina is often interpreted as a plot device that resolves an insoluble difficulty, but it doesn't have to be the usual definition of "resolve" as in "complete". And they don't have to be at the end.
Our Grey One resolved several issues for Bubbles, and managed, in a week, to move the plot forward a distance that would have taken a year or more without their work.
If that's not god-like interference from above, I don't know what is!
brasca:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 03 Feb 2017, 20:54 ---
--- Quote from: Cheesefondue on 03 Feb 2017, 00:05 ---As I said, I like this arc. And to those who didn't like it, would it have made you appreciate it more if you knew it was ultimately building up towards a failure? A Deus ex Machina that didn't work?
--- End quote ---
But it did. The definition of Deus ex machina is often interpreted as a plot device that resolves an insoluble difficulty, but it doesn't have to be the usual definition of "resolve" as in "complete". And they don't have to be at the end.
Our Grey One resolved several issues for Bubbles, and managed, in a week, to move the plot forward a distance that would have taken a year or more without their work.
If that's not god-like interference from above, I don't know what is!
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Normally I would have a problem with deus ex machina resolutions, but in this case it wasn't what I expected. I really didn't want this problem resolved by either Hannelore's father or mother and their vast resources and it wasn't. Instead we are introduced to an enigmatic AI who takes it upon themselves to intervene in this one case. For any other AI this would be far fetched, but Bubbles may be the only one suffering from PTSD. Perhaps other soldier AIs never had this problem since no one else could help her. Once they heard about Bubbles predicament they decided to act and while it was ultimately revealed that Bubbles memories were gone the entire time the same outcome would've occurred even if Station succeeded in breaking the encryption.
I know Bubbles likened them to a squid on the aquatic life form food chain, but they put me in mind of one of the First Ones from Babylon 5. They aren't really gods, but they've evolved to such a level that they're certainly above every other known life form.
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