Quote Originally Posted by datalaughing View Post
It's clear from today's comic that powering up the zappy stick will be important to the story of how this battle goes. So it wasn't a digression. It wasn't random.
Its just completely UNNECESSARY!

We don't know the full extent of the power in GG (We almost never do). She could have just set it to "High setting" or something similar. Whip out an extra battery.

This was just a dilly dally distraction.