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** WordOfGod states that the Storm King was based on the Sun King, another name for Louis XIV of France. That was 1738-1615. If those are literally the same people (except the Storm King is Louis with the Spark) then that means its sometime in the 1900s--its been mentioned a few times that the Storm King's reign ended about two hundred years ago.
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** If you REALLY want it to bug you, unless you REALLY REALLY stretch and try to force "tag" to rhyme with "bleib'" (command form of "bleiben", to stay) the rhyme ONLY WORKS IN ENGLISH, and they're almost certainly not supposed to be speaking it.
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** Two German leagues would be about 15 kilometers--a decent distance. Two Roman leagues would be 5 km or less; a bit short, but there's no real reason for it to be Roman leagues, so we can ignore that. Honestly, I think the rhyme was invented by the Heterodyne's enemies, so they we referring to their own leagues (whatever those were). Other countries picked it up after discovering that their leagues worked for it too. Besides, as the old airman pointed out "we just stayed away from the place." The exact distance really was not important.
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** Two German leagues would be about 15 kilometers--a decent distance. Two Roman leagues would be 5 km or less; a bit short, but there's no real reason for it to be Roman leagues, so we can ignore that. Honestly, I think the rhyme was invented by the Heterodyne's enemies, so they we referring to their own leagues (whatever those were). were). Other countries picked it up after discovering that their leagues worked for it too. too. Besides, as the old airman pointed out "we just stayed away from the place." " The exact distance really was not important.
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** Two German leagues would be about 15 kilometers--a decent distance. Two Roman leagues would be 5 km or less; a bit short, but there's no real reason for it to be Roman leagues, so we can ignore that. Honestly, I think the rhyme was invented by the Heterodyne's enemies, so they we referring to their own leagues (whatever those were). Other countries picked it up after discovering that their leagues worked for it too. Besides, as the old airman pointed out "we just stayed away from the place." The exact distance really was not important.
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* "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080801 If you'd live to see the end of day, from Mechanicsburg two leagues stay.]]" A few strips later, Agatha has the castle chase the airships [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080825 two English leagues]]; given the suggestion of time travel, this probably isn't a coincidence. But whose leagues, indeed? Mechanicsburg is in Transylvania, the English barely mentioned other than Wooster's arc. The German "meile" (often translated "league") is generally around one and a half English leagues. The Roman league was less than half an English league. Especially in a world with less British influence than our own, why did Transylvanians make a rule around the English league? (...no, I'm not going to ask why it rhymed. A couplet that simple could be made to rhyme in any language.)
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*** The impression I got is that they're tying up every single storyline related to the castle, so that Agatha won't have to come back later. Oh, it will be seen and referenced, but no main plots will take place there. I mean, think about it: Agatha went in to repair the castle (main arc). Zola obviously can't try to usurp her ''after'' the castle is repaired, so that has to happen now. All the prisoners (mostly Sanaa, Moloch, and Tiktoffen) need to be taken care of, and there's no way to avoid their stories if they're running around anyway. Agatha needed to know about the Dyne (since the power was ebbing and the castle wouldn't be repaired without it), and it makes sense to include the Otilla subplot for that part, since she's like ten yards away. The "Zola won't die" arc is basically a "look how FUCKING AWESOME Higgs is" arc. I think we're going to get some of the questions about him, too, answered soon.
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**** And a good editor could have trimmed a whole year out of the arc, removing a lot of the filler-ey bits. The plotting in the Castle Wulfenbach arc was much tighter.
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*** The entire point of the Castle Wulfenbach arc(s) was her quest to escape. Learning family secrets was a (unwanted) bonus. Castle Heterodyne is Where She Came From, and filled with Heterodyne secrets, many of them {{Dark Secret}}s - she's not trying to escape from it, she's trying to figure it out. And given that ''[[GeniusLoci the castle itself]]'' is schizophrenic, that's a large order. And she has assassins and suitors to deal with at the same time. Right now, the castle is giving up its secrets to the Heterodyne rather freely, and the suitors seem healthy, but. ''Zola.'' '''Just.''' '''''Won't.''''' '''''DIE!'''''
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** One of {{James P Hogan}}'s books points out that science that works is engineering. Science that doesn't work is bunk. Objectively, that means '''''science does not exist!''''' [[IceCreamKoan Hear the sound of one hand clapping!]]
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** If there is any parallel to our own timeline then we can start by noticing that the Arc de Triomphe (built in 1806) was standing a few years ago when Tarvek and Gil were in Paris.
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**Note that the scene where it was announced that she was definitely dead and would be revived was added later, when the collected volume was released (and retroactively added to the webcomic), because the page count for that book required one more page. Meaning that originally, we probably weren't going to discover her fate until later (possibly much much later) -- or, perhaps, it wasn't part of the original story at all, and was added as a sideplot later on.
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*** Eh...that was probably a DoubleEntendre. Although they ''were'' just about to...[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean experiment.]
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*** Eh...that was probably a DoubleEntendre. Although they ''were'' just about to...[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean experiment.]]]
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* Whenabouts does this actually take place? A lot of our familiar milestones are probably meaningless - most of Europe being ruled by a baron rules out familiar dynasties, sparks ruin eras in thought, the apparently atheistic invocations we see probably rule out Christ, but, for instance, how long has it been since the death of Caesar? Did this world even have Caesar? Charlemagne? Othar's Twitter mentions Voltaire, but he lived much later than the architecture and fashions seem to indicate. Hell, Phil and Kaja coming to our world would almost seems to imply it's been about [[MedievalStasis 2,750 years since the founding of Rome]]...
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**** And a good editor could have trimmed a whole year out of the arc, removing a lot of the filler-ey bits. The plotting in the Castle Wulfenbach arc was much tighter.
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*** I'm pretty sure that, at least at the beginning, he allied with whoever happened to be listening at the time.
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*** Nobody's saying she should leave and ''never come back'', just that it'll be kinda dull if she ''never leaves''.
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**** It's possible that the slaver wasps are geared to work on most common types of constructs - The Other would certainly have had the opportunity to work with Jaegers, so long as she could keep the Heterodyne Boys from noticing that individual Jaegers were disappearing. However, Klaus is definitely not one of the more common types of constructs - he seems to have Jaeger-ish aspects but he's also definitely not a Jaeger. The Other could have assumed or hoped that his similarity to the Heterodyne's constructs would make Klaus vulnerable, and been partially or wholly mistaken.
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** Keep in mind, they're obtaining energy densities and cognitive efforts that surpass modern science out of ''springs and gears.'' We never actually see how they do this; it's quite possible that the process of building a clank (or death ray, or what have you) involves countless smaller examples of theoretical science to invent the device's overarching principles and constituent parts, which are then applied through engineering. They just find the science part of it [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean more exciting.]] This seems to be confirmed when Agatha resolves the Si Vales Valeo; she implements her new ideas ''untested,'' which absolutely shocks Gil, implying that the testing is vital to the process.
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**His current mission seems to involve being somewhat sympathetic to Agatha, getting Klaus's most axe-crazy retainers personally angry with him (Bangladesh and Dolokov) and avoiding Gil like the plague (which is probably not a bad plan of itself.)
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*** Eh...that was probably a DoubleEntendre. Although they ''were'' just about to...[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean experiment.]
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*** The whole "slaver wasps don't affect Jaegers" thing is sketchy at best -- IIRC, when they first discovered the type of revenant that retained its mental faculties, it's briefly mentioned that the infectee was a construct, and thus supposed to be immune. So their immunity could have been a deliberate lie. And if The Other could develop a wasp that worked on sparks -- also immune -- then it isn't much of a stretch to assume that she could design it to work on Jaegers as well.
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** And I paraphrase: "It'll take more than that to kill Othar Tryvagassen, GentlemanAdventurer! [...] Er... Not ''much'' more..."
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** [[FridgeBrilliance ...And Von Pinn could resist because she was the Muse of Protection, in other words,]] ''a high-functioning construct!''
construct!'' (Granted, probably not a case of wasp, but still mind-control.)
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** [[FridgeBrilliance ...And Von Pinn could resist because she was the Muse of Protection, in other words,]] ''a high-functioning construct!''
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*** That castle happens to be ''her'' home! How could she just leave and never come back? We should've been expecting this for a long while.
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** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100827 Well, we've got our answer now.]]
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** Oh...Well, it looks like the castle arc is ''nearly'' done. =)
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**** Wait, are you talking about the present day comics? They were in the castle for two real life years?
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* I kind of confused about who the fake Heterodyne in the pink is. She's not Robo-Lucrezia?
** She's been apparently trained since birth to be the perfect Heterodyne duplicate - or at least trained since the Heterodyne Boys vanished. No, not Robo-Lucrezia - her name is Zola, and there's speculation up on the WMG page. (Spoiler: [[spoiler: the Storm King house is at least partially responsible for her]])
*** It's been revealed that [[spoiler: she's some girl that Gil knows who somehow always gets mixed up in sparky plots that fail miserably and needs to be saved by Gil. This is just the latest plot she's been drawn into that's in the process of failing miserably]].
**** Whether [[spoiler: she's actually a Mongfish of some sort]] has yet to be revealed, but is a strong possibility. One way or another, though, she's no Heterodyne.
***** Considering how she walks under the portrait that resembles her ''that'' much and gives a talk about how the Order was "whipped into shape" (vol.9 p.036)? For all we know, Zola is ''very'' likely to be [[spoiler:a niece of Agatha's mom]] or close to this. While everyone looks at Heterodynes for legitimacy (and some for prophecy), this distracts from Mongfishes (connected to the Order) and Lucrezia's Spark that was on a par with with them.
** She's been apparently trained since birth to be the perfect Heterodyne duplicate - or at least trained since the Heterodyne Boys vanished. No, not Robo-Lucrezia - her name is Zola, and there's speculation up on the WMG page. (Spoiler: [[spoiler: the Storm King house is at least partially responsible for her]])
*** It's been revealed that [[spoiler: she's some girl that Gil knows who somehow always gets mixed up in sparky plots that fail miserably and needs to be saved by Gil. This is just the latest plot she's been drawn into that's in the process of failing miserably]].
**** Whether [[spoiler: she's actually a Mongfish of some sort]] has yet to be revealed, but is a strong possibility. One way or another, though, she's no Heterodyne.
***** Considering how she walks under the portrait that resembles her ''that'' much and gives a talk about how the Order was "whipped into shape" (vol.9 p.036)? For all we know, Zola is ''very'' likely to be [[spoiler:a niece of Agatha's mom]] or close to this. While everyone looks at Heterodynes for legitimacy (and some for prophecy), this distracts from Mongfishes (connected to the Order) and Lucrezia's Spark that was on a par with with them.
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*** Horray. More dingbots. I am so engaged with the plot right now. I totally care about this irrelevant complication.
