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Alice Grove MCDLT - THE END...?
JimC:
--- Quote from: A Duck on 13 Jul 2017, 00:17 ---I am now 100% convinced that Alice Grove is just the beginning of Jeph's sci-fi universe.
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QC is also a sci-fi universe. Stated not to be the same one, but more famous science fiction writers have succumbed to the temptation to weld entirely different universes into a single whole at a later date with varying degrees of consistency.
Its clearly a thing that both some writers and some fans are tempted to. I must confess I don't altogether understand the need myself. While there's something cute about the way Asimov welded his robot universe onto his Foundation universe, I'm not really sure it was the right thing to do as regards internal logic. I more admire the wonderful get-out-of-gaol free that pterry constructed when he had his past history shattered into pieces and glued together wherever the bits fitted, enabling him to permit inconsistencies if they better served the story.
LKR1009:
I wish Jeph would add on some sort of Patreon stretch goal that would get us 100 more strips of A.G. if met.
Sorflakne:
--- Quote ---QC is also a sci-fi universe. Stated not to be the same one, but more famous science fiction writers have succumbed to the temptation to weld entirely different universes into a single whole at a later date with varying degrees of consistency.
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Considering there's more than 5,000 years at minimum between QC (assuming it's just a '20 minutes into the future' of our world) and AG, the two could be joined with little to no issue.
mikmaxs:
--- Quote from: Tova on 13 Jul 2017, 01:57 ---Hey mikmaxs, I think that the word you are searching for in that post is denouement.
denouement
deɪˈnuːmɒ̃/
noun
noun: denouement; plural noun: denouements; noun: dénouement; plural noun: dénouements
the final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
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Well, okay, but... Does the word matter?
It doesn't change the fact that the only antagonist of the story thus far (Pate, backed up by Church) has had literally nothing to do with the actual conflict or inciting incedent. The real storyline has done nothing to raise the stakes or escalate the tension.
We're getting explanations and a wrap-up to the main storyline, but the main storyline hasn't really existed for most recent third of the story. We've got a narrative arc that escalates well in the first act and then is completely flat for the remainder of the story because the B-plot completely overwhelmed everything that was going on.
There are zero stakes in answering the mystery at this point, because the promise of escalating danger was never made good on.
LKR1009:
New comic's up!
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