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EndOfTheWorld posted:It's one of the things that rankles the most about the last two chapters. Characters doing bad deeds and being portrayed as the real victim in all of this. It's the Dominic Deegan Noble Rapist all over again. At least Mary, with as many problems she and that entire storyline, completely owned her broken ideas. It would be a lot more interesting if Alison was tripping over herself trying to justify kidnapping and coercion, possibly leading up to a breakdown, instead cutting away to her occasionally and having her look sad. Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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EndOfTheWorld posted:It's one of the things that rankles the most about the last two chapters. Characters doing bad deeds and being portrayed as the real victim in all of this. It's the Dominic Deegan Noble Rapist all over again.
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Oct 29, 2016 09:11
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Avshalom posted:throwing fair-trade organs at the man new thread title please
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Oct 29, 2016 10:02
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Oct 29, 2016 10:09
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I can't believe I kickstarted this garbage. I thought the whole point was that superpowers didn't actually make the world better but ha, gotcha, turns out violence and a deus ex machina libertarian fixs everything. What a waste of money.
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Oct 29, 2016 10:34
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Okay so I'm reading the beginning of this thread and everyone's praising it to the skies and now everyone's making GBS threads all over it. When did everyone turn on this comic? Is the beginning worth it even if it gets bad eventually?
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Oct 29, 2016 11:06
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whowhatwhere posted:Okay so I'm reading the beginning of this thread and everyone's praising it to the skies and now everyone's making GBS threads all over it. When did everyone turn on this comic? Is the beginning worth it even if it gets bad eventually? It's fun to be mad at a webcomic.
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Oct 29, 2016 11:31
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whowhatwhere posted:Okay so I'm reading the beginning of this thread and everyone's praising it to the skies and now everyone's making GBS threads all over it. When did everyone turn on this comic? Is the beginning worth it even if it gets bad eventually? The first three chapters are relatively coherent. Set up the world, the basic premise ("could superpowers actually help society, and if so, how?") and a conclusion with Feral's sacrifice that, while far from flawless, look like it had an actual idea on what would be truly superheroic. Then they ran out of ideas. So chapter 4 is filler about dad's cancer, chapter 5 jumps the shark, and chapter 6 jumps a sharktopus.
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Oct 29, 2016 11:53
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Paladinus posted:It's fun to be mad at a webcomic. It's just so disappointing, really.
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whowhatwhere posted:Okay so I'm reading the beginning of this thread and everyone's praising it to the skies and now everyone's making GBS threads all over it. When did everyone turn on this comic? Is the beginning worth it even if it gets bad eventually? The turning began when the authors did a really long awkward chapter about murdering rapists that had no pay off and no one learned anything.
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Oct 29, 2016 12:18
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Nuebot posted:The turning began when the authors did a really long awkward chapter about murdering rapists that had no pay off and no one learned anything. You were supposed to learn that rape is bad.
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Oct 29, 2016 12:21
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Also strapping explosives to people and drugging them impairs their judgement.
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whowhatwhere posted:Okay so I'm reading the beginning of this thread and everyone's praising it to the skies and now everyone's making GBS threads all over it. When did everyone turn on this comic? Is the beginning worth it even if it gets bad eventually? It was really the last chapter that turned a lot of people. The series unfortunately peaked with Feral's chapter, and then there was another chapter that wasn't as good, but was completely inoffensive. Then Chapter 5 happened and what could have been a good idea was marred by really poor dialogue, a very confusing stance on whether or not murdering rapists was good or bad, and flat characters. The chapter ends with the author not really punishing Mary for her actions, or providing a solid voice to talk-down her ideals. Of all the conversations about what Mary is doing I remember only Furnace opposing the actions but then the series cuts his legs from underneath him by presenting the idea that he himself may be a rapist. Now in this chapter we have Allison trying to find a magical quick fix solution to a problem when the series has spent years telling us that this should be impossible. Then this chapter provided the series with it's Loss.jpg/jazzhands moment and the thread completed the transition to a mock thread.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Also strapping explosives to people and drugging them impairs their judgement.
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Avshalom posted:blushing virgin clevin mods please rename me
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Oct 30, 2016 14:52
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I am curious if anything actually happens with that doubt in the last panel.
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Discendo Vox posted:I am curious if anything actually happens with that doubt in the last panel. I try not to be the sort of person who gets annoyed at fictional cartoon characters but these "oh no Allison feels kind of bad" panels are getting real annoying. Especially since nobody actually believes any of the downer endings brought up in this thread have a chance of happening (what someone brought up about the buff being temporary would actually be kinda clever, since it would explain why Max didn't want to use his power at all: once you help someone, you have to help EVERYONE. At all times.) mycot fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Oct 30, 2016 |
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Elysiume posted:But at least blowing up a dam is, at worst, a moderate inconvenience to a handful of people.
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Avshalom posted:why exactly did she take him to a dam anyway, obviously she thought he was an irredeemable piece of poo poo so should have understood "hey you'll kill yourself and all these people!" wouldn't be much more of a deterrent than just "hey you'll kill yourself!" so just putting him in a secluded bunker somewhere rigged with explosives would have been just as effective without endangering any other lives. as it is she comes off looking like she actually wanted to blow up a dam for no reason and therefore like a psychopath, which against all my better judgment i have to say isn't what the author was going for, and the last minute handwave of "oh all that land happened to be totally uninhabited" hinders more than it helps. incompetent webclevin uh clearly everyone who could possibly have been harmed by the dam blowing up were actually rapists yep, all of them. Every single one.
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Discendo Vox posted:I am curious if anything actually happens with that doubt in the last panel. Well obviously a hiatus and a new chapter
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Mazerunner posted:uh clearly everyone who could possibly have been harmed by the dam blowing up were actually rapists a god dam rapist
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Oct 31, 2016 01:51
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WELL WELL! This might be going somewhere interesting after all! allison's depowered oh nooooooo
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Flesh Forge posted:WELL WELL! This might be going somewhere interesting after all! Everyone seems to be leaping to that conclusion for no real reason when it seems more likely that the doctor specifically mentioning "can't force you" made her realize that oh yeah, she assaulted a man and forced him to do something against his will.
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Hospital food, am I right?
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Nov 1, 2016 13:06
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No "good" deed goes unpunished.
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Nuebot posted:Everyone seems to be leaping to that conclusion for no real reason when it seems more likely that the doctor specifically mentioning "can't force you" made her realize that oh yeah, she assaulted a man and forced him to do something against his will. Hey I've said before I have a lot of dumb ideas so the odds favor me 
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Flesh Forge posted:Hey I've said before I have a lot of dumb ideas so the odds favor me Honestly you're probably going to be right. They'll just suddenly reveal that Max actually transfers powers, not flat out powers up people and now OH NO Alison is normal.
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See, THAT might actually go somewhere. If you had to trade "I have superpowers" with "Someone else can supply all the world's organ transplant needs basically forever" that's a slightly interesting ethical dilemma. Actually no it's not, it's an automatic "lol duh of course I want superpowers"
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Nuebot posted:Honestly you're probably going to be right. They'll just suddenly reveal that Max actually transfers powers, not flat out powers up people and now OH NO Alison is normal. Max's power's already dumb, so I won't be surprised if it gets even dumber.
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It's obviously morning sickness guys.
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Trast posted:It's obviously morning sickness guys. 
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Why did she even admit to having a hand in Feral's new condition? She already knows that people's abilities are evolving and getting stronger . She herself is proof of that so it's not outside the realm of possibility that the same would happen to Feral. All she has to do is sit back after she forced Max to do his fireball trick and show up a week later acting surprised. Not that I don't mind seeing her actually grapple with this mindset but this scene shouldn't have to happen at all. Now I'm surprised why they aren't questioning her harder since she just ensured enough organs to apparently change the status quo literally overnight. This is something that is going to demand investigation, security footage is going to be analyzed, Feral's room is going to be cased by forensic teams trying to find traces of what Allison might have done. They will probably have someone tail Allison and start going through her recent history to try and figure out how a college student was able to manufacture a process that could enhance another person's ability.
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Brought To You By posted:Why did she even admit to having a hand in Feral's new condition? Alison is not a smart person.
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Nuebot posted:Everyone seems to be leaping to that conclusion for no real reason when it seems more likely that the doctor specifically mentioning "can't force you" made her realize that oh yeah, she assaulted a man and forced him to do something against his will. Yeah, I'm gonna say that's a good old-fashioned guilt puke. Truly, Alison is the victim in all this.
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Brought To You By posted:Why did she even admit to having a hand in Feral's new condition? She already knows that people's abilities are evolving and getting stronger . She herself is proof of that so it's not outside the realm of possibility that the same would happen to Feral. All she has to do is sit back after she forced Max to do his fireball trick and show up a week later acting surprised. You probably put a lot more thought into this than the author did, just fyi.
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I thought that she was just getting sick at the idea of having to notrape that guy again for the good of humanity.
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I kind of wonder if the writer has an ongoing kickstarterish thing where you can throw enough money at him and he'll adjust a character/plotline to your liking. It would explain the ridiculous heel-turns semi-popular characters did for no obvious reason.
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Brought To You By posted:Why did she even admit to having a hand in Feral's new condition? She already knows that people's abilities are evolving and getting stronger . She herself is proof of that so it's not outside the realm of possibility that the same would happen to Feral. All she has to do is sit back after she forced Max to do his fireball trick and show up a week later acting surprised. It's the same reason she came up with Project Valkyrie instead of going to quietly go work with disaster relief/charities that work on building infrastructure in developing countries in a capacity where she would be helping build things but get none of the credit. It's hard to tell whether it's bad writing or if she can't stand to not be in the spotlight.
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Flesh Forge posted:You probably put a lot more thought into this than the author did, just fyi. Can a mod make this my forum signature?
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I'm reposting this from the last time "but why did Allison do this?" was discussed over in the webcomics thread.Mikl posted:Re: SFP, you know what would be better than her being a firefighter, or a glorified Uber driver? International rapid response rescue team. There are literally a million situations where she would be more useful but get none of the credit. Her whole thought process seems like it's striving towards a single end goal: "Allison Green saves the world." Which is at the same time very similar but not the same as "the world is saved".
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