Annotated 42-12
(Apologies for delays in getting this one up.)
This tower does have stairs and probably an elevator. Bandit leaving by those would actually be less conspicuous than rappelling across the face of a local monument. But she’s got a rep to maintain, never more so than now when she’s trying to inspire a new squad to follow her, one that respects her background rather than overlooking it. And it’s a pretty cool sequence anyway.
RIP Rabbit, who would not only have gladly supported Bandit in her exile but would’ve totally fit into a group like this. Working with Hewie and Pyre would’ve been a challenge, though.
Tobias, we’ve seen before. The others are new, though you can get a lot of Watcher and Bash-Meister Berta’s deal just from their looks and their names. Brock was a visual reference to a show I never really got around to seeing, but I figured we should do something to acknowledge the most famous political-fantasy property of the 2010s. I thought we might go further with that, but he ended up having no real resemblance to Tyrion Lannister beyond the physical. (I started out avoiding Game of Thrones because I didn’t want to be unduly influenced by it while writing a political-fantasy epic. By the time the series was wrapping up, I was planning on binging it as soon as it was over, and then, by all accounts, it fell apart. I’ve absorbed a lot by proxy, tried the novels, and seen a few episodes including the first and last, but I think that’s as far as I’ll go.)
FB: “Peacemakers are last year’s news. GUILDED AGE introduces Bandit Keynes’ Piece-takers.”
Not seeing it yet
I’m guessing Her Grace Iwatani was tagged by mistake?
Yep. Clicked too fast after an autocomplete.
Trying the first and last episodes of a show some infamous for “spoilers” is an interesting idea that I might try. It reminds me of the mysterious intro to Gurenn-Lagaan which doesn’t make any sense until you’ve seen the rest of the show – it probably wouldn’t spoil all that much, more like a prophetic vision of a terrible potential timeline.
Too bad about the other three or four pigtailed gnomes that Bandit tossed over the side on her way in.
That actually confused the crap out of me. Until the last panel i thought Bandit’s “crew” was a squad of black-ops gnomes and they were all leaving together?
Or something?
I really needed some gutters there
When you mind the gutters, the gutters mind you.
I haven’t seen them all myself, but the first four seasons of GoT seem to have been pretty good (assuming you’re not put off by bloody gore), with great casting, good (if colorless) costumes, and even adding neat scenes.
Outrunning their source material left things wobbly, but at least often fun, until season 8. Then you could watch the ratings fall like Bandit here, especially if her rope had broken.
Even S8 had some nice scenes, which I’ve seen through the power of Youtube.
If you feel like getting a gist of A song of ice and fire and Game of thrones, I recommend watching the first season of Game of Thrones. It is by far the best season and the one that sticks closest to the books.
Having both watched the show and read the books, the books have a problem in getting to unwieldy so the author still hasn’t finished the series, and it is increasingly unclear wheter he ever will. The show on the other hand has a problem in the show runners getting high on their early successes, and making more and more changes until the story barely made sense (and political intrigue takes pretty tight plotting), which became evident for all in the last season when they ran out of run way.
So two pretty different cautionary tales there. They all made lots of money though, so perhaps not that cautionary.
Referencing Peter Dinklage is cool and all, but Brock is exactly the kind of role that he would refuse, portraying a fantasy creature of short stature.
And yet he portrayed a dwarf in Narnia, Trumpkin. I suppose his views have changed over time.