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WCDT Strips 3606 to 3610 (6th - 10th November 2017)
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: brasca on 09 Nov 2017, 16:58 ---
It’s in character for Beatrice, but what I find odd is that she seems to have waited a few years to spring this on Hannelore. When we last saw her she was bullying Hannelore the whole time until she finally left and since then has only been mentioned. Maybe she gave Hannelore a few years to get “cured” and now attempting to pull her into her world.
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How much comic time has in fact passed? I think it might all be part of Beatrice's plan. While Hanners was still living as a complete shut in, she did get assignments from her mother. As a result, it shouldn't surprise me that she now has a very details knowledge of what goes on in ECI.
Moreover, Hanners has made tremendous progress. If her mother keeps track of that - and it seems unlikely that she shouldn't - she may well have judged the time ripe for the next step. Even with the evil master mind quirks she displays, I think that she's realistic enough to realise the limits of her daughter. Or disappointed enough, but the result is the same.
BenRG:
I started giggling at panel 6, I really did. Something tells me that, for Tilly, 'reorganisation' is the magical word: A large project that requires exquisite levels of organisation; something that would make her happy for hours or even days. Curiously, that makes her very similar to Twilight Sparkle but I won't follow that up. However, this does suggest that she and Hannelore have one thing in common in their love of organising things.
Of course, all this does expose how little Beatrice really knows about Hannelore. It's hard to hire someone to take over your daughter's life when she doesn't have much of a life, mostly because her anxiety disorder makes it hard to do anything without it creating a huge chain-reaction of other things that she suddenly needs to do.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 09 Nov 2017, 22:36 ---"Taffy"?
Right before saying you have a photographic memory?
Deliberate insult, or turning into her mother?
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No, it simpler than that: She's reminding us that human memory tends to be associative and that, even though she's in the middle of a conversation with Tilly, she's still thinking about her mother and what she said (Tilly not really having individual existence in her head disassociated from her mother's poisonous whims). So, instead of picking up the right name, she picks up the wrong name her mother used!
Tova:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 09 Nov 2017, 22:36 ---"Taffy"?
Right before saying you have a photographic memory?
Deliberate insult, or turning into her mother?
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"Taffy" is the name that her mother told her over the phone.
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Nice Ben, but it's simpler still.
Tilly introduced herself to Winslow, not to Hanners. So Hanners didn't forget. She just didn't know.
Edit again: looking back, I may be wrong, but heck, I'll stick with that explanation and just go with the theory that Hanners is retrieving her phone wreckage while the start of that conversation is happening.
BenRG:
Nope, check Strip 3606 again. The very second sentence Tilly said to Hannelore was introducing herself by name.
blt:
I can see the Taffy - Tilly thing being a recurring joke.
What made me laugh is that she doesn't skip a beat either. Probably got used to it with Beatrice.
Edit: because the font resizing code is ass
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