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2012-10-12, 08:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
I'm starting to worry that Jones' reply to Annie's question will be "Tired of living".
I wonder if the guy coming in through the door is Edward Jones, and he 'adopts' and renames 'Emma' once he realizes what he's done by destroying her Lady Elizabeth identity.
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2012-10-12, 10:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Next thing we'll see is that further down the line she has also been Gengis Khan, led the french revolution and has been pretty much every other historical figure of importance.
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2012-10-12, 02:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
You know what's terrible? Ever since the update before todays', every time I see a comic with Jones in it, the following automatically begins playing in my head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1jPUB7gRyg
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2012-10-13, 06:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
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2012-10-15, 11:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
I think I'm beginning to understand how Jones got her nickname.
Also, reading this series of strips in reverse order made this strip much sadder. "Reassuring?" indeed.Name inspiration.
G. K. Chesterton's food for thought:
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."
"You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion."
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2012-10-15, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Hmm, I wonder what kind of accent Jones has. She seems to be eternal; you'd think she'd pick something strange up.
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2012-10-15, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Heh. Now it reminds me of this.
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2012-10-15, 12:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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- I smell chocolate
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
A potent relic of the past. 'Tis said the wearer commands the wisdom of kings, and can see the unseeable.
Like the grue lurking in your bedroom waiting for you to fall asleep.
But perhaps some things are better left unseen...
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2012-10-15, 12:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Xin-Shalast
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2012-10-15, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Antimony: Jones, what are you?
Jones. I'm...well, I'm an immortal gold-digger, if you must ask.
Antimony: ...
Jones: ...
Antimony: Well, at least everyone can say that they didn't see it coming.
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2012-10-17, 08:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Good GOD this is getting disturbing! This is a very effective - and creepy, and perhaps even heartbreaking - demonstration of what it would be like to be immortal. And wander through an ever changing world, those you care for growing old and dying while you never do.
I wonder where she got the name Elizabeth. We'll probably find that out next.
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2012-10-17, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-17, 05:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Yeah. I am actually shocked at just how creepy Jones comes across here. This could just as easily be seen as deeply predatory action on her part- grooming 'companions' and benefactors as children.
Of course, every other indication is that she's not like that. But still.
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2012-10-17, 05:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
She must have very strong mental barriers to both care about people and not be too strongly effected by their deaths to be completely nihilistic.
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2012-10-17, 05:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Eh, I doubt she's actually human, and if she isn't, its unlikely her mind works quite the same way ours does.
On the other hand, maybe the reason she never smiles is that she has in fact closed off most or even all her emotions, and she's simply going through the motions when she acts like she has emotions.
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2012-10-17, 05:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-17, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Thats pretty much what I meant. No human can be both dis-attached AND attached at the same time.
On the other hand, maybe the reason she never smiles is that she has in fact closed off most or even all her emotions, and she's simply going through the motions when she acts like she has emotions.
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2012-10-17, 05:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Argonth
Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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2012-10-17, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
I sure hope however Samuel lost that eye was congenital. The thought of a child being in the kind of accident that would mean losing an eye makes me shudder.
I think it can be said that, given the spaces with the time jumps, that factory explosion was in World War 2 or some equivalent.Last edited by Ravens_cry; 2012-10-17 at 07:58 PM.
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2012-10-17, 08:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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2012-10-17, 08:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Interestingly, there *was* a Samuel Langdon. Had both eyes though, so there you go.
- Sometimes, the knights are the monsters
- The main problem with the world? So many grownups, not enough adults.
- Talk less; say more.
- George R.R. Martin, Kirkman, and Joss Whedon walked into a bar. There were no survivors.
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2012-10-17, 08:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Argonth
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2012-10-18, 12:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2012
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2012-10-18, 01:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-18, 02:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
So - James and Jones romantic, or not?
Going back to the field strip several days ago, I think not. He puts his arms around her legs in a really very intimate way.SpoilerI am a...
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2012-10-18, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
It might be the most obvious way to cope with the fact that they died and she'll be around forever. There are probably less objectionable methods of coping (That in particular seems very sociopathic for Jones), but if the alternative is cutting oneself off from emotion entirely...
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2012-10-18, 08:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-18, 07:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Argonth
Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Yeah, that's kind of exactly how I'm picturing it going actually. Short lived, doesn't come anywhere close to sharing your worldview, easily replaced from a large population. Just because they can talk doesn't mean she necessarily views them as more than particularly intelligent animals. We don't consider ourselves animals, but she isn't a human so she doesn't have that self pride that keeps us from thinking of ourselves as animals(animal vs. person is sort of an arbitrary distinction). I've sure known dogs that were as smart as a really dumb person so It's not as severe a difference as it sounds.Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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2012-10-19, 12:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
"Why would I get a fish? I'd just die in a few years."
"Well, the important thing I'd the time you'll share with the fish."
"Wait...this is the lifespan talk isn't it? I don't want to have the lifespan talk!"
"We'll we have to have it sometime!"
A thought: Jones is a golem/immortal spirit/whatever who was created/trained/put under a geas to act as a nanny/mistress/companion for someone, who needless to day died of old age.
This is less a weird predatory thing that her way of following her purpose/programming/true nature when she gained independence. Possibly it's
the only way she knows how to form bonds with people.Last edited by Somebloke; 2012-10-19 at 12:57 AM.
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2012-10-19, 02:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Lost in the Hinterlands
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
The time jumps are skipping ahead whole centuries now.
I haven't given up hope on my "Galatea" theory.Last edited by Giggling Ghast; 2012-10-19 at 02:11 AM.
A father taken by time, a brother dead by my own hand.
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