OOTS #629 is up
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ArisKatsaris
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No, this is the follow up to V saying the 4 right words to the right being for all the wrong reasons: Giant In the Playground Games
Nothing that V will say now in pursuit of trying to save his family can POSSIBLY be for all the wrong reasons. It might be the wrong thing for the *right* reasons, but it won't be the right thing for the wrong reasons. That one was Kubata.
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Explorer
Damn nice reasoning in hindsight (at least my hindsight). If V doesn't make this decision, the strip goes in a different direction.
I buy it, suitably dramatic, and seems to fit the bill. Nice find/theory.
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PoeticJustice
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Not that it's worth anything, but I agree with you 100%. There's been a lot of speculation since V met Qarr, but none of the recent dialogue resonates with the concept of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons as this one. Good call.
How this leads to V achieving Ultimate Arcane Power is what I'm really curious about now. In a way, it's the ultimate spoiler: we know V isn't going to learn her lesson and reintegrate, because she can't admit that she needs others. Doing so would be tantamount to admitting she allowed her family to be needlessly murdered and then damned.
Not totally unlike Redcloak's situation, when I think on it. "Now I know you'll obey me, because I give you an excuse for your inexcusable behavior." But then, maybe V will overcome where Redcloak has failed.
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While I wouldn't put past Mr. Burlew to let this be the action that forges the evil alliance between V and the imp, I really don't think he'll do something like this. It seems too obvious. I'm leaning towards that will force V to go into a trance, face the guilt, find a teleportation spell, and then seriously kick some ass against the Dragon. But I really don't think V would join forces with the imp.
What I really like that he's made a rather sympathetic villain out of the Dragon. She's doing the wrong thing for all the right reasons (The Nine Hells can't handle a mother's revenge), and even if she gets killed in the end, she's already accomplished part of her goal of making V understand her torment and suffering. The other part, is of course, reunion with her deceased son.
What I really like that he's made a rather sympathetic villain out of the Dragon. She's doing the wrong thing for all the right reasons (The Nine Hells can't handle a mother's revenge), and even if she gets killed in the end, she's already accomplished part of her goal of making V understand her torment and suffering. The other part, is of course, reunion with her deceased son.
aboyd
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Sure it can. It may be right in the way you're thinking ("save the children") but that still doesn't mean that's the only way to portray it.
V's 4 words will be "I accept your offer" to the imp. It will have a very right reason for it ("save the children"). However, in 20 more strips, when V is ensnared in some impish plot that makes the situation even worse, he will protest, "I never wanted this!" And the imp will reply, "Doesn't matter that you did it for the wrong reason, you got it anyway."
Rich has used that kind of logic in his strip before. In fact, after the imp says that, V will likely fly into a rage about how saving his kids was most certainly not the wrong reason. And the imp will shrug and say something like, "Believe what you want, doesn't change reality."
We know the imp does this. He's indebted huge demons with outrageous bluffs before.
small pumpkin man
Explorer
No, the efficient thing for the Dragon to do is to kill them beforehand and then do everything she just did anyway, thus making sure they're dead and at the same time making it worse for V by implying the V had a chance at saving them but failed because of hubris, saying "I'm going to kill them" and then going through with it it much nastier than just killing them while V isn't aware of them.
Then again, not everybody's a damn robot who does the most efficient thing at every turn, and I certainly wouldn't want to read about people who did.
Wulf Ratbane
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Orlando Bloom would like a word with you...
roguerouge
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I want to know what gingko bilboa will solve for the raven.
Ginkgo biloba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ? Or am I missing some culture reference?
