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WCDT Strips 3626 to 3630 (4th to 8th December 2017)
lawoot:
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--- Quote from: Storel on 08 Dec 2017, 15:43 ---Do they even make Grape-Nuts any more? I haven't seen it in any grocery store for years, perhaps decades. I thought they must have discontinued it.
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It appears from postconsumerbrands.com that they're still around. I always imagined Saki's Filboid Studge as being something like Grape Nuts.
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Oh, interesting! I guess I haven't looked in the right stores. Granted, I don't buy cereal much anyway, so it's possible that it's been in plain sight without my noticing.
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Usually on the top shelf, with all the other "It's good for you / kids won't like it" cereals.
Thrudd:
Okay - I abstained as best I could and did the rest of this weeks strips in one go.
That did not help at all.
I have this underlying déjà vu feeling and was wracking my brain trying to figure out why and then it hit me - George Lucas.
He was enamored with Jar Jar. Unfortunately he had nobody to rein him in like in the first trilogy.
Like Jar Jar my guess is that there is a perfectly valid and interesting history and story arc for the character but the depiction up till now has been far short of what we have come to expect from him.
The pendulum has swung and hopefully it shall swing back sooner than latter.
hakko504:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 09 Dec 2017, 12:25 ---I have this underlying déjà vu feeling and was wracking my brain trying to figure out why and then it hit me - George Lucas.
He was enamored with Jar Jar. Unfortunately he had nobody to rein him in like in the first trilogy.
Like Jar Jar my guess is that there is a perfectly valid and interesting history and story arc for the character but the depiction up till now has been far short of what we have come to expect from him.
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I take it you have only seen the movies and not the animated TV series The Clone Wars where Jar Jar is developed in a much better way. Still mostly comic relief but also with a much better understanding of his character and motivations.
Tova:
Fools. Tilly was clearly planted by Beatrice, with the incorrect name "Taffy" planted in Hanners' mind to increase her sympathy for them. Further, it is clear from the increasing number of people whom the group have "adopted," such as Brun, that Beatrice has planted them all. This is all possible because Beatrice has subtly been manipulating their lives through the use of nano-machines invented by scientists that she first enslaved and later killed to hide the evidence.
Ultimately, Hanners will come to see how persecuted all of these friends are by the world, and she will gradually come to realise that the only way that she can make the world a better place is to take control of it. Towards the end, Marten will realise what is happening and try to intervene, but Beatrice will trick Hanners into thinking Marten is evil, and Beatrice will kill him. With force lightning.
Hanners will thus inherit Beatrice's business, and Beatrice's evil plans will come to fruition.
Beatrice probably eats pineapple and ham pizza, too. Monster.
Thrudd:
No. I have seen the animated series but I take that as a band-aid on Lucas's bruised ego at that time between the last two films where the hastily written in count for the second film didn't quite pan all that well with the fans after the Jar Jar debacle in the first film.
There is a whole library of material written about what was done, could have been done, and what may have been happening behind the scenes but George and his precious ego will never come clean - my bet is that he destroyed all evidence of the original story-line and made everyone in the know sign nondisclosure's.
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