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Post by swankivy on Oct 29, 2010 18:07:12 GMT -5
Have anything to say about #285: weaver #33: not like you? This is the place to discuss with others without having to post directly on the comic (though you're free to do both)! |
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Post by SHO! on Oct 30, 2010 1:55:35 GMT -5
Umm, hmmm... it looks like Alix is making passes at Weaver all over this one. Also, I LOVED the "I'm not like you" drawing of Weaver! It is very animated and he looks cool. ;D
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Post by SHO! on Oct 31, 2010 17:14:47 GMT -5
I find some of the reactions of some of the commenters about Weaver's hostility toward Alix to be puzzling. 
You're not an astronaut. You're not an explorer. You're not an adventurer of any kind. Or at least, even if you are, you have no memory of these things because you've found yourself washed up on the shore of an alien world, no memory of self or country and are half drowned.
Before you can even gather your strength back a creature of that world overpowers you and takes you prisoner. It locks you away and treats you like an animal. Over time it parades other creatures around you that ogle you as if you are in a zoo.
During your captivity the alien allows you access to a learning machine and through your own cunning you begin to decipher the creature's strange clicks and yowls and learn its language well enough to tell it you are not an animal and that you are a thinking and reasoning being that can't stand captivity and should be freed. To whit it ignores you, mocks you, and continues to imprison you for study and display. None of its kind that you meet are willing to aid you either.
The learning device also gives you in-depth knowledge of story after story of how the majority of your captor's species treats those that are most different from it in an ill manner. Aliens such as yourself are often hunted, captured, and studied as you are, and in the end are even murdered and dissected only to further this war mongering race's curiosity.
In the end you devise a plan and free yourself. When you escape you run far into the alien wilderness and hide from all of your captor's kind in fear that you will be enslaved for amusement once more and possibly ultimately destroyed. You fend for yourself and eek out a meager survival in seclusion.
During your time alone you meet another amnestic castaway like you. Much different than the things that captured you, this new fellow becomes a friend and has even more distasteful stories of the abhorrent behavior of the things that put you in a private zoo, kept as a possession because you weren't as strong. Only with your new companion they tried to indoctrinate him into a band that victimized their own kind as well!
With your new friend you find peace and a routinely lifestyle that works and then suddenly one of the creatures that victimized you both (albeit in different ways) appears in your sanctuary unannounced. Your friend, not as knowledgeable of the ways of this world as you, who did not have access to the learning device, and who has proven himself overly trusting before, readily welcomes this interloper into your confidence threatening your freedom and safety with the unknown. You stay guarded and the newcomer takes that as a cue to mock you as your previous captor did, and then vilify you as those in the learning device often did to anyone different from them... usually shortly before betraying, capturing, murdering, and dissecting them.
Are you now ready to throw a welcoming party to the newbie?! 
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Post by swankivy on Nov 1, 2010 11:04:53 GMT -5
Wow. I think it's safe to say that SHO! has a VERY GOOD UNDERSTANDING of Weaver's thought process. Congratulations on properly expressing what Weaver must be going through, SHO!. Yeah, it's pretty tough after his very first terrible experiences in this world to just be nice. . . . He has no reason to think that he's safe just because he's not in a cage right now. Not to mention that even if he doesn't think he's in any danger of being imprisoned or hurt by Alix, he's still got a lot of anger and disappointment and annoyance and bitterness left from what was done to him. And since there weren't all that many episodes of the comic that featured Weaver in his imprisonment compared to the time he's spent freed from it, it's easier to forget that that experience spanned many months. Ouch. :/
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Post by SHO! on Nov 5, 2010 21:37:01 GMT -5
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Ya heard?! 
