Girl Genius discussion OPEN SPOILERS

[thorny]

Is anyone else expecting Lucrezia to explode into bits at any moment?

-- and did anybody else think that moment on the previous page when Albia switched from 'oh you rescued me!' to 'I will rescue you!' was kind of weird? If the Hetereodyne and friends can actually take down Lucrezia, they can probably fix their own airship, too; and give Albia a ride home on it. She looks like she could use one; though I suspect her power would revive quite fast once there.

-- entirely off topic -- is it actually raining outside my window? and is there any chance it'll do so long enough to accomplish anything? -- bah, I think it's stopping. Maybe it'll start again.

[JoB]

Is anyone else expecting Lucrezia to explode into bits at any moment?

... you mean, any more than she already did for that single-mind-distributed-into-however-many-bodies shtick of hers?

-- and did anybody else think that moment on the previous page when Albia switched from 'oh you rescued me!' to 'I will rescue you!' was kind of weird? If the Hetereodyne and friends can actually take down Lucrezia, they can probably fix their own airship, too; and give Albia a ride home on it.

Hmmmm, if you want to split hairs over her saying "allow us to repair your airship" instead of "allow us to help repair your airship", maybe; having one more spark working on that should speed things up in any case. (Though possibly not in the direction you wanted it to go, I admit.) Or maybe - IIUC that is a British airship - she's actually been the lead designer and really can fix it up much better/faster/sparkier than anyone else present?

[thorny]

I'm sure the airship repairs would be faster and easier with Albia helping, and maybe she could even wave a hand and fix it once she's recovered a bit. But that instant change in attitude seemed jarring to me. Maybe it's just me.

[Jitter]

Thorny, the intense back and forth of the pages since… far too long is muchly irritating, but that particular change of mood seems in character to me. Immediately snapping back to arrogant when possible seems like something a Queen who addresses herself as “us” would do.

Other than that, could we PLEASE move on now. This arc is done! Please be done.

[thorny]

True. I'm becoming reminded of the fight between Mama Bear and Surma.

[Jitter]

Yes! This is exactly it!

[wavewright62]

Agreed, I'm having difficulty processing it, too.  Mr Wright has done his work superbly, but I still have a confuzzle.  A reread later will help.

[thorny]

I think that's finally done it.

At least, if Albia and Monahan don't proceed to start fighting.

[Róisín]

Won’t much trouble Lucrezia. When you have as many copies of yourself scattered about as she appears to have, dead is not necessarily dead. At most she will be inconvenienced.

[thorny]

If your self-destruct system was intended to blow up whoever had just defeated you, why would it make warning noises?

[JoB]

If your self-destruct system was intended to blow up whoever had just defeated you, why would it make warning noises?

So that if it ever gets triggered when you actually have not been utterly defeated, you'll notice and have a chance to use the top secret deactivation routine?
(Granted, an itsy bitsy tiny buzzer near your ears would still make more sense than alerting half the landscape ...)

[Jitter]

Róisín, agreed, this will not be the end of all of Lucrezia. But hopefully it will finally be the end of this fight.

[thorny]

Looks like it, whew.

And apparently Albia can indeed wave a hand (or snap fingers) and fix the airship. But what about Monahan?

[wavewright62]

Albia seems to have accepted her as a full-fledged queen?

[thorny]

It does kind of look like that, doesn't it?

But does that mean that they'll actively cooperate, or at least not fight? -- though I wouldn't think either of them would be in the mood for more fighting, right now. (Neither am I!)