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WCDT Strips 3766 - 3770 (18th-22nd June 2018)
hakko504:
I went with 9/10 in the poll, mostly for the same reasons as have been stated before here: The Spookybot resolution just felt forced and not really fitting the tone of the rest of the story. Here's this more or less omnipotent robot and look, they fix everything in just a few pages. No. The rest is of the high standard that we have come to appreciate and expect and be disappointed when he fails to live up to (*cough*Tilly*cough*). Also, as others have noted, Spookybot is an interesting character. They just weren't used in a good way through this storyline.
Nigel:
I agree that Spookybot seemed like a cheap shortcut, but Faye getting fired bothered me more from a consistency standpoint. Dora bought beer (and pizza) for all the employees on the clock and encouraged Faye's attitude with customers. I get that it had to happen for (obvious and major) plot reasons, but it didn't seem to 'fit', imo.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Nigel on 18 Jun 2018, 06:32 ---I agree that Spookybot seemed like a cheap shortcut, but Faye getting fired bothered me more from a consistency standpoint. Dora bought beer (and pizza) for all the employees on the clock and encouraged Faye's attitude with customers. I get that it had to happen for (obvious and major) plot reasons, but it didn't seem to 'fit', imo.
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A beer on the clock for special occasions and a terse register manner isn't the same as showing up to work smashed and angry.
Love today's comic. I greatly appreciated the emotional payoff to Faybles but was in dire need of a light aside to the rest of the cast.
Is it cold in here?:
I wish I could remember the line of reasoning Zoe used about Arrogant Architeuthis. She found an argument that it was a logical necessity for such a being to exist in the QC universe.
HughYeman:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 17 Jun 2018, 13:41 ---So, as we've finally come to a watershed in Faye and Bubbles' relationship, I think that the time is appropriate to ask what forumites thought of the entire arc from the first meeting to the realisation that the Bed is Dead.
IMO, it's some of Jeph's best writing. He caught the development of both women's personalities as a result of their interaction. From early on it was clear that this was something special; Faye was pushing too hard and Bubbles was really letting her get away with too much. However, it wasn't until Faye went into Bubbles' room when the latter was hiding away from a world she was sure hated her that we realised just how close the two of them were getting.
It wasn't a perfect story. I'm still not ready to forgive the deus ex machina that was Spookybot, a plot device that was neither really needed nor (IMO at least) properly used. Nonetheless, I give the overall effort a better-than-good score.
What do you think?
As for this week's strips, I'm half-expecting a series of semi-random vignettes before Jeph settles on where he wants to go next.
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Well, I think it's pretty obvious how strongly I felt about it, but to recap: It's been decades since a piece of fiction has hit me this hard. It is embarrassingly difficult to overstate how much it affected me. It helped me reconnect with how much I love my wife, and why I fell in love with her in the first place. I wrote a piece of fan fiction, for heaven's sake.
I loved the Spookybot story. I can see why you thought it was a deus ex machina because there has never been a more literal deus ex machina, but I thought it was justified within the universe Jeph has wrought, so it was shocking to me in a "Wow, this is big!" sense more than a "Boy, this is out of left field!" sense.
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