Relique du Madde
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Vyvyan Basterd said:
I'm glad I didn't have to say that in post 2 of this thread
. . You sir won a cookie.Gez said:
Someone has to edit that TV Trops Wiki and add O-Chul under the OoTS mentioning of the Flumphs.
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I'm glad I didn't have to say that in post 2 of this thread
. . You sir won a cookie.Someone has to edit that TV Trops Wiki and add O-Chul under the OoTS mentioning of the Flumphs.
frankthedm
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StreamOfTheSky
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SPoD said:
About sums it up. And yeah, the travelling strips were pretty good, the random killing of the gnome merchant the only (large) negative.
This strip just....how can anyone still find the crap that happens to this guy entertaining? It isn't even "character development" where you develop deep sympathy for the poor paladin, cause he's never actually developed, just trotted onscreen for yet another abuse, then the camera leaves. For me at least, it's generated not sympathy, but a rather strong apathy to the whole thing. I just don't care anymore, my feelings towards the "running gag" having been bludgeoned numb by rich's giant plot sledgehammer.
cignus_pfaccari
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StreamOfTheSky said:
Oh, it's horrifying.
But it's not about poor O-Chul, it's about the twisted people who're doing this to him as entertainment. Who are funny, and yet incredibly evil.
Brad
StreamOfTheSky said:
Well, I'm pretty sure you have failed to understand the point of this strip. It's not a "running gag" at all. This has little to do with O-Chul, per se, and everything to do with the Monster in the Darkness. It's the one getting character development here, because we see that it has developed an attachment to the paladin during the months of captivity and is willing to bet against all his so-called "friends" in the hope that the paladin escapes. That is, it engages in less-than-completely-Evil behavior. This may be the first strip of a story where the Monster helps the paladin escape from his horrible abuse, but we can't have that story without showing the horrible abuse first! This strip also starts the process of explaining why Xykon is still in the city and raises the question of why Redcloak isn't there.
In other words, don't assume that just because he's a human paladin that O-Chul is at all the point here, or that you're supposed to care deeply about him. He's not important; he's just a stand-in so that we have someone for the villains to abuse, because they're VILLAINS and they are the stars (at least in this scene).
(Not to mention, would you really rather Rich introduced yet another minor character to the strip for the bad guys to beat on? Give him some credit for trying to keep the cast of characters to under 100!)
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(Psi)SeveredHead
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How the heck is O-Chul still alive? (Or is he?) I mean, doesn't he need to eat and drink?
Fifth Element
Legend
QFT. Though you forgot the ubiquitous "Another builder strip for me" comments.SPoD said:
Olaf the Stout
Hero
For some reason the strip made me think it could have easily have been a scene in an Austin Powers movie (I know it wasn't but I could see something like that happening). All it needed was for the shark to have lasers! Xykon is seeming more and more like Dr. Evil all the time.
Olaf the Stout
Xykon is seeming more and more like Dr. Evil all the time.Olaf the Stout
Olaf the Stout said:
You beat me to it! I was scanning down the thread, looking to see if anyone else had mentioned it.
Not just lasers, but frickin' lasers.
Oh, and my money's on "dead". It's been, what, three months since the Battle of Azure City? That's a long while to be paralyzed. He would have long since dehydrated, or starved.
MichaelSomething
Legend
I bet 50 gold that Mr. Stiffy lives!
