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2019-10-02, 06:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
I find Tweedle's reaction here one the last panel disturbing. It's the reaction of a person who sulfured long term abused.
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2019-10-02, 07:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-02, 09:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
My takeaway from this strip is that Gil and Tarvek are being typical sparks. By which they are getting monofocus blinders on -- 'here is a thing, and it has been tampered with. We must find a way to un-tamper it.' It takes an outsider (any outsider, in this case Martellus) to point out that out-of-box thinking is what is required in this situation. Not unlike in Oots when Haley needs to point out that con pullers try to make you think there are rules to be followed. I'm not sure why Martellus is the one to see this fact (he is a spark as well), but perhaps that means that it isn't a statement on Sparks, so much as people who have gotten too used to being on 'team Agatha' which of course Lucrezia-Agatha would be able to con.
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2019-10-02, 11:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
I think it's also that he's coming to the problem fresh, so to speak. Gil and Tarvek have been working on this for a while.
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2019-10-02, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Martellus is also, I daresay, growing genre-savvy as well. Survival rate just went up a notch.
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2019-10-02, 04:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-02, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-02, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Ah, yes, I forgot...he's only British on his mother's side.
Is this where Tweedle becomes sympathetic, we forget he's a murderer, and like Tarvek joins team "Good"? If Martellus was destined to remain evil instead of comic relief he would have prepared a defense against the attack from 2 foes he's tried to kill for so long instead of a cringe..."We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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2019-10-02, 08:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
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2019-10-02, 11:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
As the Not-Brothers well know, Tweedle will be quite useful for anything involving keeping Agatha safe.
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2019-10-03, 02:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
I don't see Tweedle becoming "good" per se, or even regarded as as such. But I do see him as being prepared to go up against The Other at any cost - he did say as as much to Agatha, and I don't think he was trying to impress her at the time.
That's what he is doing now. And I'm sure that the benefits of not having Lucrezia in Agatha's head really haven't entered his mind. At all.Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
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2019-10-03, 04:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
More sympathetic? Perhaps. But I doubt he'd ever be "good." More of a necessary evil. He's basically won the storm crown, so now has no real need to capture Agatha anymore. And like Agatha and crew, he now has a vested interest in taking down the Other.
But for example, I wouldn't be surprised if Tweedle slipped an ace up his sleeve when he dosed Oggie with his special brew.
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2019-10-04, 06:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
SpoilerOhhh... with Albia gone, Agatha is no longer restrained. But who is in control of the body? Agatha because she wants to know what this Lucrezia is, or Lucrezia who doesn't want a copy of herself destroyed?
This oddly enough, looks like an Agatha expression.
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2019-10-04, 06:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
SpoilerAgatha may not want that Lu to be destroyed since she is even more useful to Albia than the copy in her head. And they don't have to build a transfer device. Just a wipe device.Member of the Giants in the Playground Forum Chapter for the Movement to Reunite Gondwana!
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2019-10-04, 09:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Oh, and Gil, Tarvek and Martellus are too busy looking at the machine to remember about Agatha? This sort of thing does tend to irritate me about Phil's writing, he too often has seriously smart people act like absolute morons in service of the plot.
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2019-10-04, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
To be fair, it's implied in most sparks, the more they are in the madness place, the less common sense they have.
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2019-10-04, 09:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-04, 10:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
It's a work in process!
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2019-10-04, 10:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-04, 12:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
The Foglios do sure love their weekend cliffhangers.
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2019-10-04, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Yep. Plus in this case they're trusting in their allies to handle everything else while they get the machine completely rebuilt from scratch in a matter of minutes.
By the way, did anyone else notice Oggie's unusual toes? Three toes, two of which having two toe-nails. Almost like they were merged.
That's an interesting design. I wonder if that's normal or a result of Tweedle's potion.Last edited by xroads; 2019-10-04 at 05:31 PM. Reason: Fixed grammar
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2019-10-04, 04:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
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2019-10-04, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Yeah. I'm surprised Violetta hasn't tranqed her yet. But then again, maybe all of the fighters and sneaky types are currently under the thrall of Lu's magic voice. With the Mad Boyz occupied with Science!, that leaves only Oggie to handle the Lu clones. At least til reinforcements arrive.
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2019-10-05, 03:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
For control purposes they need to be wasped first. Unless they have been wasped off-screen we know that at the very least Violetta was never wasped (Agatha!Lucrezia was surprised to find that out), and the others have shown no signs of being wasped when commanded by Agatha!Lucrezia.
There is the general effect of someone with the spark, but that looks to be a Spark/Minion thing, and we have really only seen it in play in Mechanicsberg, which Carson explicitly described as a town of Minions directly built up around the Hetrodynes.
The random troops? Looks like they have been subverted by Albia.
Oggie? Well, I think Agatha!Lucrezia is going to try and play Agatha to fool him, and find out that like Dimo he has become a little smarter than the average Jager.Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2019-10-05, 05:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-05, 04:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2019-10-05, 04:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-07, 05:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Please let this arc end with Agatha's brain fixed. Please let this arc end with Agatha's brain fixed.
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2019-10-07, 05:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
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SpoilerSigh... this could not possibly happen, if von Zinzer was around.In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2019-10-07, 06:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
When did she get un-tied up?
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