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Alice Grove MCDLT - THE END...?
moriastar:
I honestly feel bad for Alice. In her mind humanity has not progressed enough mentally and emotionally to handle that level of tech. Pate proved that to her by being willing to murder needlessly. A few years is not enough time to prepare the world. And in the meantime some towns will start fighting for the tech provided by the changers. Or be fighting for the changers themselves.
What concerns me is the world around her is turning white. If she can break the rules, is she about to cause another blink and not realize it? For that matter is breaking the rules causing other side effects... like the universe itself is trying to reset things to the way they were?
BenRG:
@moristar,
I'll say this much: I'm certain that, in the next couple of strips, we're going to find out just who Alice really is, what she has done and why, in five thousand years, she has been unable to forgive herself.
pwhodges:
Well, with only three-odd strips to go, we'd better! Even so, this ending seems to me to be heading for something with the subtlety of "rocks fall, everybody dies". I think the best we can hope for now is some hint of what the full planned story might have been if Jeph hadn't decided to do an emergency wrap-up to clear his desk.
TheEvilDog:
I think you're missing the bigger picture.
Alice has failed.
She has failed her mission.
She wanted to keep a delicate balance, to prevent another war.
Only that balance has been screwed up by beings with perhaps the best of intentions. And now her future is leading leading down to hell, a path paved by those good intentions.
So much effort, so much time and its all for nothing. And its the realisation of how easily she slipped into her old ways that finally broke her.
(click to show/hide)Perhaps this whole world, this whole existence of Alice Grove have been the last cruel moments of a dying soldier, bleeding out as a war wages around her with only a fantasy to ease her suffering. And now that fantasy is broken.
derech:
Laughing because Pate just could have waited, done nothing, and still likely gotten what he wanted. Even if it took longer than he'd live to actually see the full results. Rather almost 2112 protagonist-ic-ish, but kind of backwards-like. Not giving up but forcing his own demise through attempting to get something already apparently well in motion.
Crying because she thinks humanity lost and the AI won. Or at least because this whole sequence appears unhaltable.
Still, she could be wrong about either the short-term or long-term results of this.
Maybe we'll find out.
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