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

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retrosteve:

--- Quote from: oddtail on 07 Feb 2017, 01:20 ---In my personal opinion, there's something vaguely unsatisfying about a villain/antagonist getting their comeuppance from a "God Mode" character. Feels less than natural in a forced sort of way.

YMMV, naturally.

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I was thinking that but even more so. Bubbles' troubles were basically unresolvable (even Station said so.) In a reasonable world, that is exactly how they'd stay. Pulling a Deus out of the Machina is all very well for a light comic, but feels dramatically forced, like Jeph had painted himself into a corner and needed to Zamboni his way back out.

Method of Madness:
Interesting to know that Station isn't even close to the most powerful being in the QCverse, though.

ZoeB:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 07 Feb 2017, 13:35 ---If you can judge a society by how it treats its prisoners, I am going to judge the Albino Architeuthis by what they do to Corpse Witch.

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Yes. Exactly.

Perhaps rehabilitation is possible. I can think of no other reason for their interest. Investigation of how she became the way she is, maybe? So past mistakes won't be repeated?
At worst, CW has forfeited most of her rights to consideration. But not all. Not respect as a sapient.

jwhouk:

--- Quote from: miados on 07 Feb 2017, 16:54 ---I like this robot that is in corpse witches mind. I like they they are straight forward and hope to see them again. I dont understand why people keep saying things like creepy though.

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That's a Jeph-based moniker. He made a comment about "not creepy at all" in one of the news posts, IMS.

Morituri:
Keep in mind that the gray one was delighted to act as creepy as possible when offering Bubbles his help, but was still apparently sincere about helping.  Remember the "we're why they wake up screaming" opening line to Bubbles & Faye.

"We are very very bad news" is exactly the same kind of opening line to Corpse Witch.  If Bubbles' experience is anything to go by, it's no indication at all of whether they're there to help, hurt, or just stop her.

Of course, "filthy little brainfucker" would seem to be an indication that They at least disapprove of her.  It's likely a clue that They will ensure that CW is something that Bubbles and Faye never need to worry about again, but how they do that is entirely a mystery. 

If their ethos is Kantian, then we can expect good old fashioned painful Retribution.  If their ethos is Socratic, we can expect that she will be turned over to the state.  If their ethos is Nietzchean, they'll probably make her a job offer she can't refuse.  If their ethos is Aristotelian, they will make an effort to rehabilitate her.  If their ethos is Randian, they'll probably just kill her out of hand. And so on.

But we have no idea what their ethos is.  It seems to be "making the world a better place in the most sinister way possible," which doesn't correspond to any of the major currents of philosophy I'm familiar with.

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