Just because you don’t understand – or even believe in – something, that’s no reason to insult someone who is working with you, especially when that someone is one of your girlfriend’s best friends. You will inevitably be sorry for it, and probably sooner rather than later.
I cannot think of any other excuse for her sudden disbelief in magic at this late date. She’s encountered werewolves and zombies and still can’t handle the idea of a spirit world existing? O_o
Yeah, but those were all made by people with with some sort of condition which makes them capable of bending the laws of the universe to their will. Which definitely isn’t magic.
To be fair, virtually every time Remy has been expected to summon up some magic to help, he’s flaked out and made excuses.
The one exception is the time he “channeled the spirit of Alphonse”, and everyone understandably assumed it was just a clever act, and he once again refused to give a clear answer one way or the other.
You don’t get to play the whole “cryptic mystical non-answer” game, and then complain that no one takes you seriously.
The Mads of the world don’t have that problem – they say they’re going to do something absurd, and then they do it, and there’s no denying that they did it, even if you can’t make sense of HOW they did it.
Remy does the opposite – he refuses to make any promises and mostly doesn’t do anything at all, and on the rare occassion when something does happen, it’s not at all clear that he was responsible, he won’t even take proper credit for it, and there’s a perfectly logical alternative explanation that suggests he in fact did nothing.
To be equally fair (well, maybe not quite equally), Remy did arrive here by following disturbances in the spiritual plane. So he must know something of what he’s doing, even if he can’t (or simply refuses to) explain it.
… or that’s what he said. If he is in fact a conman it’s quite possible he actually arrived by following, say, reports of a *walking office building*. It’s not like the gang is *inconspicuous*.
@Nix, if he followed reports of a “walking office building”, he’d be in Kansas right now. They flew out to the Habakkuk on Nick and picked up the zombies, and then flew down to Florida. An aircraft flying into Florida is not exactly out of the ordinary.
He also apparently has a chemical test for ghosts ( http://skin-horse.com/comic/new-storyline/ ) which allowed him to distinguish a vaporous entity from a “real” ghost, would seem to suggest he has actual know-how (or at least bought the stuff from someone with actual know-how 🙂 )
Preferable to having Mulder’s Syndrome, believing in all sorts of random nonsense and being wrong about it at least as often as being right.
A stopped clock is right twice a day, and a TV show protagonist is right whenever the writers decide it’s convenient for them to be so, but even from an in-universe standpoint Mulder is basically just guessing and getting lucky most of the time.
That’s tellin’ her, Remy.
Sweetheart, Sweetheart, Sweetheart…
Just because you don’t understand – or even believe in – something, that’s no reason to insult someone who is working with you, especially when that someone is one of your girlfriend’s best friends. You will inevitably be sorry for it, and probably sooner rather than later.
Agreed! Sweetheart is definitely being catty.
Yeah, Sweetheart really should know better. Especially since Remy has been useful to them previously.
He was useful to them yesterday (in in-universe time). He brought Unity a whole heap of body parts. There’s more to Remy than voodoo.
Even if she doesn’t think he could do anything to help the investigation now, she could at least ask him to check if Leo needs anything.
Looks like Sweetheart might be a little jealous of Unity’s friendship with Remy.
I cannot think of any other excuse for her sudden disbelief in magic at this late date. She’s encountered werewolves and zombies and still can’t handle the idea of a spirit world existing? O_o
Yeah, but those were all made by people with with some sort of condition which makes them capable of bending the laws of the universe to their will. Which definitely isn’t magic.
To be fair, virtually every time Remy has been expected to summon up some magic to help, he’s flaked out and made excuses.
The one exception is the time he “channeled the spirit of Alphonse”, and everyone understandably assumed it was just a clever act, and he once again refused to give a clear answer one way or the other.
You don’t get to play the whole “cryptic mystical non-answer” game, and then complain that no one takes you seriously.
The Mads of the world don’t have that problem – they say they’re going to do something absurd, and then they do it, and there’s no denying that they did it, even if you can’t make sense of HOW they did it.
Remy does the opposite – he refuses to make any promises and mostly doesn’t do anything at all, and on the rare occassion when something does happen, it’s not at all clear that he was responsible, he won’t even take proper credit for it, and there’s a perfectly logical alternative explanation that suggests he in fact did nothing.
To be equally fair (well, maybe not quite equally), Remy did arrive here by following disturbances in the spiritual plane. So he must know something of what he’s doing, even if he can’t (or simply refuses to) explain it.
… or that’s what he said. If he is in fact a conman it’s quite possible he actually arrived by following, say, reports of a *walking office building*. It’s not like the gang is *inconspicuous*.
@Nix, if he followed reports of a “walking office building”, he’d be in Kansas right now. They flew out to the Habakkuk on Nick and picked up the zombies, and then flew down to Florida. An aircraft flying into Florida is not exactly out of the ordinary.
He also apparently has a chemical test for ghosts ( http://skin-horse.com/comic/new-storyline/ ) which allowed him to distinguish a vaporous entity from a “real” ghost, would seem to suggest he has actual know-how (or at least bought the stuff from someone with actual know-how 🙂 )
Seems, though, that if there was going to be a serious plumb of the spirit world, Tip would get the job.
Sweetheart has Scully’s Syndrome. She disbelieves in anything that can’t be explained by Science, of either the Mad or Sane varieties.
If it can’t be reproduced it’s not science.
Go on, then, Reproduce the Big Bang.
The Big Bang isn’t science. It’s a theory. And it will always be just a theory, because it cannot be reproduced.
That’s not quite right. Repeatability is important, but what makes it science is testability.
Preferable to having Mulder’s Syndrome, believing in all sorts of random nonsense and being wrong about it at least as often as being right.
A stopped clock is right twice a day, and a TV show protagonist is right whenever the writers decide it’s convenient for them to be so, but even from an in-universe standpoint Mulder is basically just guessing and getting lucky most of the time.
Every time I saw the show—which wasn’t often—I’d think, “Hey, J. Edgar would never have tolerated agents like this.”
Perhaps not, but J. Edgar was a psychopath, so I’m not sure his judgement or tolerance counts for much either way.
“Psychopath” seems an odd term for a dedicated patriot…
He guesses and then investigates.
Scully ignores evidence because she’s a scientist, and that’s what scientists do.
When Remy proved key to resolving the problem, would Sweetheart blush under her fur? And if so, how could we tell?
Be honest, how long have you been waiting for a chance to use the word “ensorcelled”?