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… wait, so they knew he was Loup, a volatile and powerful creature of unknown powers who has already done a lot of destruction to the court, burnt Reynard, made up of two parts who have both done violence to Annie herself despite her personal relationship to them (the wrist teeth secret, the forest berserker followed by stolen memories)… And… they just let him stay with Lana who’s a squishy human now? The millisecond they found out they didn’t try to rescue her??? You can’t even argue he won’t do her violence in this body because he already has done it to others right at the start.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Weird how the main characters never behaved like they knew, even in private, where they had ample opportunity and cause to demonstrate such knowledge. It's going to be revealed that they found out about it off-screen between the last chapter and this one. During that time they developed their plan to capture him as well, also off-screen.
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May 12, 2023 10:16
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Captain Oblivious posted:Weird how the main characters never behaved like they knew, even in private, where they had ample opportunity and cause to demonstrate such knowledge. What are you talking about? Lana and Loup, the main characters, demonstrated that knowledge plenty of times!
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May 12, 2023 10:17
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DontMockMySmock posted:lmao, what??
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May 12, 2023 10:38
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DontMockMySmock posted:lmao, what?? Randalor posted:I kinda get what Tom is going with, where Loup-as-Jerk is becoming more caring and empathetic (or maybe he sees a kind of kin in the robots-turned-human) while Annie is dead set on killing Loup and so we're going to end up with Annie as the villain.
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May 12, 2023 11:32
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So we’re either pivoting to the Court as the main villain as Annie forgives him, or Loup’s return as an active villain if she rejects him. Loup fleeing the subway tram was a dead giveaway, but nobody talking about it was a weird given how many chapters we’ve had since. It also make Robot’s deal with him off, but the whole robot cult thing has been building for years and maybe it’s to get us to some kind of narrative payoff here. Robot’s deal with Loup accomplished squat since the latter immediately hosed off for a while, so are we to not trust Robot?
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There Bias Two posted:It's going to be revealed that they found out about it off-screen between the last chapter and this one. During that time they developed their plan to capture him as well, also off-screen. Honestly I think it's gonna be this. When Kat went God-mode, she explicitly mentioned being able to track Loup. Which irks me because Annie was so incurious that she never just peeked into the ether while talking to him.
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YaketySass posted:lmao Gunnerkrigg Court: lmao. at least something is happening
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May 12, 2023 12:15
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Let’s just see and find out since when they knew so we can decide if it’s really a bad twist or not.
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Darth TNT posted:Let’s just see and find out since when they knew so we can decide if it’s really a bad twist or not. I mean, it’s a bad twist either way because no matter what it positions Loup as the protagonist whose perspective we follow, in order to set up a twist by hiding Annie’s perspective from us.
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May 12, 2023 12:54
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"Of course we knew. We're not idiots"
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May 12, 2023 14:24
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The right time for this reveal was many updates ago, and the central problem with it now is that already knowing Jerrick is Loup does not match up with the private, no-need-to-hide-anything behavior of Annie or Kat. Like, why did they go to meet him in a private location? Doesn't that seem like a loving stupid idea, unless you're going to try to turn the tables on a suspected trap asap? But no they waited for him to admit it before moving on him because...??????? What was the plan, here But I guess I can also huff the hopium and see if future updates make this better, who knows!
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May 12, 2023 14:25
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GunnerJ posted:The right time for this reveal was many updates ago Yeah like, even if it does get justified why here and now was the best time to capture him, why keep the audience in the dark? If we knew that Annie and Kat knew about Loup, then as soon as Jerrick and Lana come to speak with them it'd have so much more tension. But then I guess we wouldn't have this surprising twist, and Annie & Kat would be framed less villainously, and the story wouldn't have been as strongly from Loup's perspective 
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May 12, 2023 14:35
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Perhaps Robot's been using his uqbiquitous surveillance capabilities to keep tabs on Loup, and all he was buying with the deal was enough time to backstop his story about how he found out. He then arranges to tell Annie and Kat his fabricated story of how things went down once it is quite clear to him that Loup is going to spill the beans. If it works, this gets Loup captured. And probably gives Robot access to the fettered diety,
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I'm getting a shonen jump vibe from Loup, where they beat the poo poo out of the antagonist and he just becomes their friend* it would explain why he hasn't really flexed his power and why he's more of an annoyance then a threat I think between Kat's robo-apotheosis and Annie becoming Annie², maybe they're supposed to be at more equal footing? *Except, obv, we didn't see any of that happen Xand_Man fucked around with this message at 14:59 on May 12, 2023 |
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May 12, 2023 14:55
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Has Jerrik actually done anything when he's been in that body? Or could Jerrik be a poor robot-turned-human that Loup brainwashed or put a small part of his power into? I know that we've seen another Loup running around way back when.
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Jerrek is a fully shapeshifted Loup, which is why he didn’t show up in Robot’s logs
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There Bias Two posted:It's going to be revealed that they found out about it off-screen between the last chapter and this one. During that time they developed their plan to capture him as well, also off-screen.
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this is just an even further disconnect from annie. we used to have insight to her thoughts and emotions, and now we, the audience, are being blindsided by this revelation? this sucks, what the gently caress.
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i’m reserving judgment for now but it’s still baffling how the last gasps of this comic are being spent pushing Loup front and center. what does Tom expect us to like about this guy? he completely sucks even if you downplay all the horrid stuff he did in earlier chapters
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May 12, 2023 16:00
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The final panel of the comic will be Coyote saying "The Aristocrats!"
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I knew the thread going from mostly dead all week to this many posts meant Some poo poo Involving Loup had occurred but I still wasn't prepared for how loving stupid it was.
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 Why are Annie and Kat seemingly confused here if they knew Jerrek was Loup? Shouldn't they like, be on edge here or something? Loup just came up to them and said "we have news about Loup, but we need to be somewhere private" so you'd think they'd be at least a little on guard?
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May 12, 2023 19:05
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You can read the expressions as "Loup just said he had info about Loup? What? Uh, I guess let's play along?" But, yeah, this is a situation where I don't really see any great answer to "When exactly did they discover Jerrik was Loup?"
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May 12, 2023 19:35
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Eh, they're teens and Jerrik looks REALLY nervous there, I can see them being a "Uh... what?" moment.
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May 12, 2023 19:35
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I think we've hit Game of Thrones levels of "just check off all the plot points, who gives a poo poo if they make sense" A part of me is genuinely angry with Tom for how stupid this is.
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So did Tom say anything about when he's going to start writing again himself instead of publishing somebody else's lovely fanfiction? [whispers from offstage] What? Oh.
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May 12, 2023 20:41
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I enjoyed the acanonical guest comics at first but they're getting kind of old.
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Okay this definitely caught me off guard, and not in a good way. Either they recently learned this (when it should have been earlier) or they were playing 4d chess by talking like they didn't know where Loup was even when he wasn't there, for fear of being overheard or something.
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It really kills me how this is no longer anything like the comic I fell in love with.
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mycatscrimes posted:It really kills me how this is no longer anything like the comic I fell in love with. Yeah, it wouldn't feel so bad if the comic hadn't been so much better than this in the early days of it. It's a shame.
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Beating a dead horse here but one final one
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also this is just a pet peeve but can no one else see how loving weird kat's eyes look when she's going all mother of machines? like are her eyes supposed to look like black voids to everyone or are they just normal
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gbh my entire reaction to this update is "Uh. Huh. Ok?"
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I still don't understand how the story is hitting seemingly logical beats while still making them all feel absurd.
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Oh. Hum. Based on these past two pages, maybe I should be glad there hasn't been any news on book 9. Carry on.
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Battle Pigeon posted:Beating a dead horse here but one final one The monster drink lmao. I feel like the time between us and Annie and the gang discovering Jerrick is Loup was too long. It make their obliviousness frustrating and baffling, especially with Jerrick being so knowledgeable about the ether. It also removed a potentially fun element of wondering what's with this new boy interested in Annie, and why's he doing xyz, which could have been fun on reread. Having him be shy, reserved, and a New Person could have been a great cover for certain behaviors that might have otherwise raised alarms. Edit: but ofc that would have put focus on Annie and Kat and we wouldn't get to see the Loup/Lana love saga catapede fucked around with this message at 04:00 on May 13, 2023 |
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A big flaming stink posted:also this is just a pet peeve but can no one else see how loving weird kat's eyes look when she's going all mother of machines? They're the same as her mom's, as the thread pointed out to me when I questioned it. Either its a side-effect of accessing her mom's magic computer, or she's squinting (maybe all the computer display stuff is on the inside of her eyelids?)
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