Saint James Infirmary 78: The Ring

[master]

Very Watchman-esque foreshadowing. Can't wait to find out what happens at 10:30.

[jmundt29]

Thank you for the clarification.  We eagerly await the next installment.

[laguna85]

I was think How may week or month it take to do One day

I count Start about 14 pages there are may be 4 Splash pages
Cont 64 page so 60 page week and 15 month  or one year and three days

Think for One whole day start record  page 14 intill now the ring page 78.

[Daphne]

I was think How may week or month it take to do One day

I count about 14 pages there are may be 4 Splash pages
Cont 64 page so 60 page week and 15 month  or one year and three days

Think for One whole day start record shop page 14 intill now the ring page 78.

They've been very, very busy over there in Kearsarge, that's for sure.

[mns_95125]

Well, since the production problems have left us with an update-free Wednesday I guess I'll toss out a question.  Perhaps I'm over-thinking this... but it seems like the characters are pretty blase about Derek's having essentially raped three women.  For us, sure, it's fantasy, but for them it's real.  Shouldn't somebody have filed a police report or something?  Sure, Derek ran away, but crooks do that all the time.  (In fact, his running away implies that he expected some sort of further retaliation for his actions.)  And I'd expect psychological ramifications for the victims, unless Marliese and Mallory used the watch to 'fix' that too -- and even if they did, wouldn't Adrian be curious about why they accepted what Derek did to them so calmly?

Or is this just one of those things I'm supposed to suspend disbelief over because it would derail the plot too much?

[jmundt29]

Suspension of disbelief.  Suspension of disbelief.  Suspension of disbelief.  Also, we did see sort of a reaction from Laura in the third panel of "Back to the Lab," issue 83.  She sees the Derek experience as "a holiday fling."  To me that translates to her equating it to a bad one-night stand.  This is undoubtedly the combination of Derek's bumbling programming and Marliese's supervised programming.

You can also see evidence of it The Ring.  Particularly Laura's reaction "Derek was a moron.  We thought [the hypnocock] was just part of the scene."

Caitlyn was surprised that Adrian's gag even worked.  Amy is also dismissive of and embarrassed by the LARP in that sequence, but that's as much as we get because of the layers of programming (unless Amy says something about the experience in the next couple of weeks).

Are there even police in Kearsarge?  Wilmot doesn't seem to have much of a campus security detachment (though we probably won't meet them until they intersect with the pheremones that...Vikram just accidentally invented/discovered).  I can't believe I almost typed Rajesh there.