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WCDT Strips 3411 to 3415 (6th to 10th February 2017)

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Tova:
Really, you don't think this is divine intervention?

You're not the first to propose that this is a Deal with the Devil, but I don't see it. It's more like a Bargain with Heaven. Where the entity that Bubbles made the bargain with is not exactly evil, but morally ambiguous, but apparently had no evil intentions towards her. Or so Bubbles believes. I guess you think she is wrong. Time will tell, but I doubt it myself.

Just for emphasis: this DEM did solve everyone's problems and did end the plot. Okay, it kickstarted a new plot, that's cool. But that doesn't change the basic fact.

Case:
Somehow I can't shake the idea of Spookybot being the result of Ian M. Banks' trying to write the Emperor into the Culture-verse after binge-watching the Matrix-trilogy ...

Tova:
What do you mean, Matrix trilogy? There was only one Matrix film. Are there more planned? That would be awesome.

Case:

--- Quote from: HiFranc on 08 Feb 2017, 14:37 ---In normal times, I would have just viewed this sequence and "meh" and not thought much about it.  It's a tired old trope and shows lack of imagination on the part of anyone who writes fiction.[1]  However, given the current president of the US says that "torture works", I feel obligated to link to a few things:

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Ps.
I have also emailed Jeph.

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Hmmmmh ... You know, this asshatry about "We've a captured Terrorist refusing to tell us where he hid the dirty nuke - Were's Bauer & his goddamn pliers?" (*) is one of the things I always hated about 24 - and yet this time, the connection flew right over my head.

Good Job pointing it out.


(click to show/hide)There's one (!) real-world example of that stupid 'rescue-torture' trope that I can recall: The "Daschner-Affair", where a German Cop threatened a kidnapper with torture by fictitious 'police experts' in order to get him to reveal the location of the abducted boy. Turned out that Markus Gäfken had already killed his victim. Under German law, even threatening somebody with torture violates human dignity and thereby Art.1 of the basic law - and the Judge presiding over the subsequent trial pointed out that in extremis, even a life lost cannot justify a breach of that principle. Of course, the Gestapo left ample historic precedent for where breaching that principle can lead - which is pretty much why Art.1 is phrased the way it is in the first place.

jwhouk:
You know, if your work is being compared to a book of the Bible, you must be doing something right.

I suspect Jeph had issues with how to deal with the whole "Bubbles' Brain" storyline without resorting to DEM (gee, sounds like "Spock's Brain," don't it?), and it's showing with the rather clunky ending.

There is one thing Jeph could do to make up for it, methinks - have some sort of storyline featuring Creepybot in a situation where they can't just "God-Mode" everything. Maybe something with Hanners, or Station, or whatnot.

Of course, me suggesting that just threw the possibility under the bus, but still.

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