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Diet Conan Doyle posted:I want the next page to have Coyote going "Congratulations, Firehead Girl!" because he's terrible with names. This would be great.
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Everyone just acts like Annie is medium, while Headmaster  s in the background.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:20
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I'd love to know Coyote's nickname for Smitty. Have we seen him in the ether? I bet he looks super boring.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:34
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TenKindsOfCrazy posted:I agree that it's very likely that they expected it to be Annie so hard that they reacted that way. I just think it's strange for anyone who's read (and enjoyed) GC up until now to act like it's unreasonable for others to wonder if something more exotic is going on. Yeah exactly. I'm split between Smitty Shenanigans, and Headmaster Shenanigans Plus Everybody Expected It To Be Annie. Also, with this comic in particular, with its elementals and gods and fairies and valkyries and families that turn into birds because they feel like it, using weird magic that we already know exists as an explanation for what we just saw strikes me as introducing less new elements than Jones recommending Some Girl for Some Thing that we don't know about yet. There's an old joke about an engineer, a physicist and a mathematician taking a train trip through Scotland. They pass a black sheep standing in a field. The engineer says, "Look! In Scotland, sheep are black!" The physicist says, "No, no, some Scottish sheep are black." The mathematician, irritated, says, "You're both being much too general! All we can say for sure is that in Scotland there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep, at least half of which is black." Phy fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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Feb 8, 2013 21:35
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Fecha posted:I'd love to know Coyote's nickname for Smitty. Have we seen him in the ether? I bet he looks super boring. Boringhead guy! Welcome to my forest!
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Feb 8, 2013 21:36
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Donkringel posted:My money is behind 1 because this is fairly momentous and Tom doesn't usually stick in gags like that so readily. It's not lfgcomic after all. Except he totally does.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:40
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Roland Jones posted:You know, this nomination might be a ploy by the Court; people have mentioned Coyote and such not standing for it. What if that's the point, though? Either get a rise out of them before putting forth Annie or whatever, or not even doing that? We already know these meetings consist of both sides posturing at each other. This could be something like that as well. This is actually a good point. Someone mentioned earlier that ysengrin is the forest's medium. I always thought (for some reason) that the medium was a singular position, but upon further reflection each side having a medium, who communicate with each other makes sense. And then someone a page back linked this image, which shows a medium from either side. I personally hope Smitty stays as medium, but this could be a ploy for the Court to get Coyote strip Ysengrin of his position in order to maintain relations. The court really doesn't have much to lose either as they don't take the forest seriously.
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Feb 8, 2013 22:01
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It makes a lot of sense that they'd skip over Annie for the medium job, actually. From the court's perspective, she's a little too close to the forest people, and might not have the court's interests in mind. She's also shown herself to be a total loose cannon time and time again. They're probably looking for someone that'll do a better job of keeping the relationship stable.
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Feb 8, 2013 22:06
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ImpactVector posted:It makes a lot of sense that they'd skip over Annie for the medium job, actually. From the court's perspective, she's a little too close to the forest people, and might not have the court's interests in mind. She's also shown herself to be a total loose cannon time and time again. They're probably looking for someone that'll do a better job of keeping the relationship stable. Honestly, I'm pretty sure the last thing the court is interested in is a truly neutral medium. Remember that Surma, the previous medium, helped lure and capture Renard. Annie would not be a tool of the court due to her familiarity with the forest; Smitty is far more likely to be manipulated by the court.
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Feb 8, 2013 22:19
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Whatever the reasoning is, I hope it stays with Smitty being medium because I'd love him to get more "screen time" that isn't just directly related to his relationship with Parley.
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Feb 8, 2013 22:26
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One of the pages next week had better be Coyote and Smitty shaking hands and both saying, "Alright, mate."
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Feb 8, 2013 22:30
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Has anyone considered that these are relevant to how there were three candidates, and there might be more to this than just the selection?
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Feb 8, 2013 23:24
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motoh posted:Has anyone considered that these are relevant to how there were three candidates, and there might be more to this than just the selection? Nnnnnnoooooo?  Think you could elaborate?
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It blows my mind that some people in this thread could possibly read this as something other than just a joke. There's no mystical trickery to make people think that there's a different medium! What are you even thinking?
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Feb 8, 2013 23:50
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Brightman posted:One of the pages next week had better be Coyote and Smitty shaking hands and both saying, "Alright, mate." I get the feeling Coyote's going to be either unamused or conniving at this announcement. He's been getting off on playing head games with Annie, and if she's not in the position of Medium, that's going to inconvenience him.
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Feb 8, 2013 23:52
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http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=386 Smitface is probably the Courtyest candidate here. Parley's observation is too shallow to be useful, Annie's observation is probably the most insightful but it's directed against the Court, Andrew's observation is the one that looked the most like some sort of intel for the Court.
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Rasamune posted:Nnnnnnoooooo? I hate speculating because I prefer to think pretty freeform, but three seeds (were they ever dealt with past this scene) and three candidates tells me that something was linked. At a wild guess, the seeds each represent the growth of the medium candidates, and each one will in turn have a chance to grow. (more clearly, a chance to be the medium.)
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ChairMaster posted:It blows my mind that some people in this thread could possibly read this as something other than just a joke. There's no mystical trickery to make people think that there's a different medium! What are you even thinking? You should see the comments section for this page. Jesus Christ on Golgotha, some of them think it's a damned typo 
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Cat Mattress posted:http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=386 Only problem I've got with this is that that conversation was with Jones, and no one else was around. Jones seems like she'd be looking for the person who could most capably perform the medium's job, that is, mediating between the Court and the Forest. You could take it as an indication of a greater pattern that the Court might notice in making their decision, but the other thing to keep in mind is that this was just about the first we'd seen of Parley and Smitty, and they've both changed a decent amount since then (though admittedly, Parley more than Smitty). If I remember correctly, Smitty didn't seem to have any objections to the whole plan to help Jeanne. On the other hand, from what we've seen of all of them, I think Smitty's the closest to what the medium is supposed to be: neutral and conciliatory. Parley's too much of a hothead, and Annie seems to care more about the Forest than she does the Court.
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Kantesu posted:On the other hand, from what we've seen of all of them, I think Smitty's the closest to what the medium is supposed to be: neutral and conciliatory. Parley's too much of a hothead, and Annie seems to care more about the Forest than she does the Court. The most interesting thing about Smitty as medium is seeing whether or not his power has any effect on Coyote and the Forest. If not then he'll only have his (admittedly awesome) personality to work with.
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Kantesu posted:Only problem I've got with this is that that conversation was with Jones, and no one else was around. Jones seems like she'd be looking for the person who could most capably perform the medium's job, that is, mediating between the Court and the Forest. You could take it as an indication of a greater pattern that the Court might notice in making their decision, but the other thing to keep in mind is that this was just about the first we'd seen of Parley and Smitty, and they've both changed a decent amount since then (though admittedly, Parley more than Smitty). If I remember correctly, Smitty didn't seem to have any objections to the whole plan to help Jeanne.
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Feb 9, 2013 02:01
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Plus, if you look at panel 2 Smitty's OBVIOUSLY the medium, since Annie's the small and Parley's the large.
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fatherdog posted:Plus, if you look at panel 2 Smitty's OBVIOUSLY the medium, since Annie's the small and Parley's the large.  This is the best update of this webcomic ever.
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TenKindsOfCrazy posted:If I were a writer like Tom with an engaged audience like he has I'd be disappointed if they didn't speculate like mad when something this bizarre happens. It shows that his stories are interesting and unpredictable. If I were a writer like Tom, this is exactly the sort of in[s]ane speculation that would make me belabor the obvious in the newspost below every comic that might concievably be misinterpreted. It's the sort of 'speculation' that shows that the readers have no idea about even the surface-level, obvious story I'm trying to tell. The comic is depicting a humorously belated realization :: the big guy is Eglamore. This isn't some kind of great mystery or even a cliffhanger; it's a plot twist, delivered in the form of a joke. fatherdog posted:Plus, if you look at panel 2 Smitty's OBVIOUSLY the medium, since Annie's the small and Parley's the large. I love you.
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Feb 9, 2013 02:30
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So does that make Reynardine the kids' size?
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Feb 9, 2013 03:15
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I sort of figured this would happen because, Court politics or not, Annie's record with mediating has been kind of poo poo over the past year or so. She's moody, often selfish, at once enamored with and mildly disrespectful of the forest, and tried to light Jimmy Jims on fire that one time. She's still got a lot of maturing to do. I wouldn't be surprised if there was still some kind of ulterior motive to denying her the position, though. Coyote's reaction will probably make or break that theory.
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fatherdog posted:Plus, if you look at panel 2 Smitty's OBVIOUSLY the medium, since Annie's the small and Parley's the large. ahahahhaa oh my god
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fatherdog posted:Plus, if you look at panel 2 Smitty's OBVIOUSLY the medium, since Annie's the small and Parley's the large. Hate to break it to you all, but Annie has always been shorter than Smitty.
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Feb 9, 2013 04:43
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Hate to break it to him that he's right? 
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Feb 9, 2013 05:00
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Jon Joe posted:Hate to break it to him that he's right? Oh. Way for me to miss the pun. 
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Donkringel posted:Tom doesn't usually stick in gags like that so readily. Oh and don't you dare compare this comic to Ryan Sohmer's drivel even in passing, them's fightin' words. 
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Feb 9, 2013 05:52
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I suppose that this could be a gambit to open negotiations with Coyote, if he really won't accept anyone but Annie as medium. On the other hand, Annie really isn't good at objectivity. Who would be at her age? Only the guy whose superpower is making things calm and orderly. Then again, that may be exactly why Coyote would want Annie for the job... Also, Jones has clearly taken an interest in Annie. It may be that she recommended Annie for a position working with herself, which in turn eliminated her from consideration for medium. That would dull the implications for Annie's characterization, though.
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Hodgepodge posted:I suppose that this could be a gambit to open negotiations with Coyote, if he really won't accept anyone but Annie as medium. On the other hand, Annie really isn't good at objectivity. Who would be at her age? Only the guy whose superpower is making things calm and orderly. Then again, that may be exactly why Coyote would want Annie for the job... It does strike me as odd that the court would be looking at such young people for the role of medium. Even if they don't consider the creatures of the forest to be much more than animals they do still consider it a threat as a whole and want to maintain a connection even if just to study it more closely. Keeping that connection means having a medium who can do the job well. Frankly I think Smits is technically the best of the three for the job but the Forest may not agree. I wonder why Anja was never considered? Maybe she was and wanted nothing to do with it, though.
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They choose the medium from a list of people with a connection to the ether, so far as I'm aware it's just the three of them, aside from the people from the forest.
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ChairMaster posted:They choose the medium from a list of people with a connection to the ether, so far as I'm aware it's just the three of them, aside from the people from the forest. OK, I think I do remember something along those lines. Although Anja is connected to the ether, is she not? She can use a blinker stone and all that jazz.
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Feb 10, 2013 03:39
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Damnit you made me do that thing where you read one archive comic and then read through the whole thing again.
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Feb 10, 2013 03:55
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That's a price we all pay sooner or later, and often more than once.
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TenKindsOfCrazy posted:OK, I think I do remember something along those lines. Although Anja is connected to the ether, is she not? She can use a blinker stone and all that jazz. I used poor wording, everyone is connected to the ether. Blinker stones are for stupid people who aren't familiar enough with it. I shoulda said they chose from people who have or are expected to have supernatural abilities, Smitty's orderliness, Annie and Parley both coming from parents with plenty of that.
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ChairMaster posted:I used poor wording, everyone is connected to the ether. Except for Jones, evidently, since she's unable to even use a Blinker Stone.
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Nooo my guess was wrong. Oh well. Brightman posted:One of the pages next week had better be Coyote and Smitty shaking hands and both saying, "Alright, mate." Smitty's powers of order are going to make the Universe implode when they try to affect Coyote.
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