I would regard Sweetheart as the only possible target of such since she is the one rejecting the evidence that the others had worked and risked themselves to gather and truthfully if I were him I would be thinking it’s Sweetheart who is acting as though he is beneath her and unworthy of *her* time. @_@
Sweetheart is dismissing the possibility that he could be Mr. Green, simply because she knows him as the janitor. And she is either ignoring the kids’ research, or hasn’t even bothered to ask them why they think he is Mr. Green. But either way, she’s telling the kids they are wrong, and she doesn’t want his input either.
Shelby, on the other hand, is basically saying, “Can you hurry it up? I have places to be, and this isn’t one of them.”
In fairness to Mr. Green though they *did* interrupt him while he was engaged in a journey and minding his own business. I’d argue that letting his kidnappers know that he did have places to be was not that far outside the teachings of what Emily Post would allow. >_>
That’s kinda assuming that he has anything against them when they themselves are a part of the Conspiracy he belongs to. How many of your own co-workers would you do that to? o_O
It’s A color-based name, but not necessarily the right color-based name. “Mr. Green” favors aliases based on the counties of Oz, and as far as I can remember, there was no silver-colored area. Something very strange is going on, but I don’t think Shelby is the man behind the curtain.
Not to mention the advice Peter Bishop gave for coming up with good aliases on Fringe. “If it’s related to your real name, it’ll be easier to remember.” and he lists Rook, Knight, King, Black, and White as examples.
Seems like that would be a good way to let someone figure out who you are. Like the vampires in Terry Pratchett who have the inescapable belief that if they spell their names backward no one will be able to figure out who they are. (A tribute to Carmilla, I guess?)
This in turn reminds me of an Isaac Asimov mystery story where they’re trying to figure out who the spy is and the clue is that the codename wouldn’t have anything to do with the actual spy. This extended to “The codename is ‘Granite’ and this suspect is a married woman who didn’t change her name and those women are called Lucy Stoners, Stone, get it, so it can’t be her!” so yeah, it was total nonsense.
True. I used to wear my watch on my right wrist even though I am right-handed. Might have had something to do with my mom having been a southpaw, though.
At some point I switched to wearing it on the left – not sure why. Maybe I kept banging it on stuff all the time when I wore it on the right. I’m kind of a klutz. Lol!
I’m a southpaw, always worn my watch on my left wrist, though now I know about this, maybe I should switch. It could help when taking a patient’s pulse.
It was hard to wean myself from being a southpaw, but after years of practice, now it feels perfectly natural to face east. There, that’s the least punchy joke you’ll read all week.
Most wristwatches are designed to be worn on the left hand. The dial is on the right side for easy access for a right hand. And the button layout is very inconvenient on the right hand. I used to accidentally change the time or set the alarm while going through normal hand movements.
More to the point, most wristwatches are designed for right-handed people. Analog watches have the knob on the right side, which is inconvenient for lefties, even if they wear the watch on their left arm, or even take the watch off to wind it and set the time. Many of them lack the dexterity in their right hand to turn the knob easily.
Actually, that’s not more to the point. I was responding to Cadance’s statement about not knowing why they switched to wearing a watch on the left. It’s a matter of design.
And many of us southpaws will wear watches on the left as well because we would prefer occasionally struggling with pressing the right button with our fingers over continuously pressing the wrong button with the back of our hands.
Ah, but it is more to the point. You made the point that wristwatches are designed to be worn on the left hand. I quite literally added more to your point, explaining why they are designed that way. Statistically, there are a lot more right-handed people than there are lefties, so many things — wristwatches, microwave ovens, computer keyboards, even cell phones — are designed for right-handed users.
Don’t know why I find the back of Tip’s head in panel 1 so attention getting, other than its front and center. And I can’t recall seeing that view of him before, though I’m sure there are plenty of examples..
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Mr. Green (and Anasigma as a whole) is actually a cover created by Shelby in order to make maintenance at Annex One easier. See, the government was accepting bids for something (maybe remodelling the Office of Giant Leaking Containers?), and Shelby thought the easiest way to keep the place clean was to win that contract. Everything else – Second Gate, mutant axolotls, etc? All done with the singular purpose in mind of keeping Annex One clean.
(That Annex One got closed down just shows that Shelby is better at companies and covers than he was at cleaning.)
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Well, we have previously seen body parts of someone who at least was masquerading as Mr. Green, although that doesn’t necessarily mean he really was Mr. Green. Perhaps there *is* no Mr. Green. Or perhaps Mr. Green is a title, rather than an individual.
Well it almost slipped by me, but I caught it in time. Come on, guys. Shelby Silvers isn’t Mr. Green. Think about it. Think about every big reveal in Skin Horse. Shelby Silvers clearly wants everyone to think he’s Mr. Green and you’re all falling for it. But he just made a crucial mistake: He just TOLD US who Mr. Green is.
Come on, think about it: Mr. Green is OBVIOUSLY…
The flying car.
Not someone in the car, but the car itself. Just like Nick.
My conspiracy theory runs like this: Mr. Green has passed on, leaving his immediate subordinates (the Color Guard) to carry on. Members of the Color Guard always refer to the other members, in singular or collective, as Mr. Green, thus maintaining the illusion that there is still a “Mr. Green”.
The ironic thing is this organization is so steeped in secrecy none of the Color Guard suspects the actual Mr. Green is no longer there.
Well, there was Project Silvereye on The Big Board—but I thought that was AG-I, the gang of morally-superior idiot superheroes, rather than Shelby Silver. (By the way, Shelby never did explain what he was doing up at the safe house.)
Not sure what they can do if he’s uncooperative – forcing answers out of him is probably off the table [1], and Sweetheart will probably freak out if he points out that legally they’re taking part in a kidnapping. (Is there some way for them to get access to Whimsy’s mind control tech?)
[1] Unity would probably cheerfully volunteer to beat answers (and snot) out of him, but I don’t think Tip, Sweetheart, or the kids would approve it.
There may be a way to access Whimsy’s software, even though Whimsy sold it to A-Sig. There’s still the copy that Aimee is guarding inside the VR server that they gave to Baron Mistycorn when he left. And Lovelace would still have a backup copy, even though she “gave” it back to Whimsy.
And really, mind control is probably the only way they’d get any answers out of him. He is undoubtedly a master of misleading and mendacity, so it would be fairly easy for him to feign incompetence.
Very thoughtful.
I appreciate a man who can see all sides of an issue. ^_^
Even if in doing so he is demonstrating that he considers you beneath him, unworthy of his time, and is basically just humoring you condescendingly?
Is that your interpretation? o_O
I would regard Sweetheart as the only possible target of such since she is the one rejecting the evidence that the others had worked and risked themselves to gather and truthfully if I were him I would be thinking it’s Sweetheart who is acting as though he is beneath her and unworthy of *her* time. @_@
Seems to me that they’re both condescending.
Sweetheart is dismissing the possibility that he could be Mr. Green, simply because she knows him as the janitor. And she is either ignoring the kids’ research, or hasn’t even bothered to ask them why they think he is Mr. Green. But either way, she’s telling the kids they are wrong, and she doesn’t want his input either.
Shelby, on the other hand, is basically saying, “Can you hurry it up? I have places to be, and this isn’t one of them.”
Kinda rude of both of them.
In fairness to Mr. Green though they *did* interrupt him while he was engaged in a journey and minding his own business. I’d argue that letting his kidnappers know that he did have places to be was not that far outside the teachings of what Emily Post would allow. >_>
If he’s really hypercompetent, shouldn’t he have escaped by now? Or erased their memories or something?
Surely. If that honestly and fully helped his plans.
If it’s just the same for him in the end, woud be a waste of effort to do all that, see?
So we might be dealing with a Xanatos Gambit?
More like he knows their track record and wants to get to work on time.
That’s kinda assuming that he has anything against them when they themselves are a part of the Conspiracy he belongs to. How many of your own co-workers would you do that to? o_O
If I was Anasigma? All of them. Repeatedly.
Also, have you double checked to make sure no-one else is in the car?
Plus another color-based name.
YES THAT!
Also, today’s filename is “blue-madam”
It’s A color-based name, but not necessarily the right color-based name. “Mr. Green” favors aliases based on the counties of Oz, and as far as I can remember, there was no silver-colored area. Something very strange is going on, but I don’t think Shelby is the man behind the curtain.
On the other hand, his name is yet another colour. Part of a growing set… gold, green, violet, blue (ao), and now silver.
I see someone beat me to the punch by a few seconds.
Not to mention the advice Peter Bishop gave for coming up with good aliases on Fringe. “If it’s related to your real name, it’ll be easier to remember.” and he lists Rook, Knight, King, Black, and White as examples.
*as examples for the surname Bishop.
Stupid auto-rotate.
Seems like that would be a good way to let someone figure out who you are. Like the vampires in Terry Pratchett who have the inescapable belief that if they spell their names backward no one will be able to figure out who they are. (A tribute to Carmilla, I guess?)
This in turn reminds me of an Isaac Asimov mystery story where they’re trying to figure out who the spy is and the clue is that the codename wouldn’t have anything to do with the actual spy. This extended to “The codename is ‘Granite’ and this suspect is a married woman who didn’t change her name and those women are called Lucy Stoners, Stone, get it, so it can’t be her!” so yeah, it was total nonsense.
Partially to Carmilla, perhaps, but I think mostly to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alucard
Huh… I wonder if Harold Finch knows anybody in Fringe Division.
He wears his watch on the right wrist! He’s a southpaw!
Definitely something sinister about him…
Not everyone who wears their watch on their right wrist is a southpaw. And not all southpaws wear their watch on their right wrist.
Geez… say that three times fast!
True. I used to wear my watch on my right wrist even though I am right-handed. Might have had something to do with my mom having been a southpaw, though.
At some point I switched to wearing it on the left – not sure why. Maybe I kept banging it on stuff all the time when I wore it on the right. I’m kind of a klutz. Lol!
I’m a southpaw, always worn my watch on my left wrist, though now I know about this, maybe I should switch. It could help when taking a patient’s pulse.
It was hard to wean myself from being a southpaw, but after years of practice, now it feels perfectly natural to face east. There, that’s the least punchy joke you’ll read all week.
Most wristwatches are designed to be worn on the left hand. The dial is on the right side for easy access for a right hand. And the button layout is very inconvenient on the right hand. I used to accidentally change the time or set the alarm while going through normal hand movements.
More to the point, most wristwatches are designed for right-handed people. Analog watches have the knob on the right side, which is inconvenient for lefties, even if they wear the watch on their left arm, or even take the watch off to wind it and set the time. Many of them lack the dexterity in their right hand to turn the knob easily.
Actually, that’s not more to the point. I was responding to Cadance’s statement about not knowing why they switched to wearing a watch on the left. It’s a matter of design.
And many of us southpaws will wear watches on the left as well because we would prefer occasionally struggling with pressing the right button with our fingers over continuously pressing the wrong button with the back of our hands.
Ah, but it is more to the point. You made the point that wristwatches are designed to be worn on the left hand. I quite literally added more to your point, explaining why they are designed that way. Statistically, there are a lot more right-handed people than there are lefties, so many things — wristwatches, microwave ovens, computer keyboards, even cell phones — are designed for right-handed users.
I dunno, he seems very dexterous when getting out of sticky situations…
Finally, someone “got” it! Thanks! Poor Ogden thought *his* joke lacked punch…
Really gotta hand it to him, though.
Seems to me that you’d wear the watch on your dominant hand if it contains a weapons system, to facilitate aiming.
Of course he’s ‘helping.’ The man is terrified and psychologically broken from the interrogation. He’ll say anything to get Sweetheart off his back.
Sounds like perfectly reasonable grounds for a multibillion-dollar lawsuit to me
Would “Silvers” maybe be not jusr a color name but also have some Oz reference, as in a Tin Man?
Childhood ended with the disco era, for me… but IIRC weren’t the slippers in the book, silver? I suspect a Shel Silverstein influence, too…
Indeed you do recall correctly. The slippers were silver.
I thought it was a reference to Shel Silverstein.
Which is precisely what he wanted you to think
Tin Man is Nick.
If anything, “Mr Green” would be the Wizard.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Oh you’re absolutely right! As we all know, emerald is green and the city in which the wizard resides is Emerald City!
Well, silver is another color, too.
If Shelby is the guy who restocks the toilet paper when the roll is empty, then he’s got the ultimate power.
This is true. Never piss off your janitor.
Don’t know why I find the back of Tip’s head in panel 1 so attention getting, other than its front and center. And I can’t recall seeing that view of him before, though I’m sure there are plenty of examples..
Probably it’s the first time we get to see him at this angle after his new haircut
Super Bonus Unfounded Wild Conspiracy Time!
Mr. Green (and Anasigma as a whole) is actually a cover created by Shelby in order to make maintenance at Annex One easier. See, the government was accepting bids for something (maybe remodelling the Office of Giant Leaking Containers?), and Shelby thought the easiest way to keep the place clean was to win that contract. Everything else – Second Gate, mutant axolotls, etc? All done with the singular purpose in mind of keeping Annex One clean.
(That Annex One got closed down just shows that Shelby is better at companies and covers than he was at cleaning.)
This has been your Super Bonus Unfounded Wild Conspiracy Time! Join us next time, when we explain the secret causal link between Tip’s dresses and Artie’s shapechanging abilities!
Well, we have previously seen body parts of someone who at least was masquerading as Mr. Green, although that doesn’t necessarily mean he really was Mr. Green. Perhaps there *is* no Mr. Green. Or perhaps Mr. Green is a title, rather than an individual.
Just like the Dalai Lama, or the ghost of Anakin Skywalker
Well it almost slipped by me, but I caught it in time. Come on, guys. Shelby Silvers isn’t Mr. Green. Think about it. Think about every big reveal in Skin Horse. Shelby Silvers clearly wants everyone to think he’s Mr. Green and you’re all falling for it. But he just made a crucial mistake: He just TOLD US who Mr. Green is.
Come on, think about it: Mr. Green is OBVIOUSLY…
The flying car.
Not someone in the car, but the car itself. Just like Nick.
You’re welcome.
Thanks, but someone else already mentioned that theory on Monday.
Ah, I missed it. Glad someone agrees with me and has a time machine.
My conspiracy theory runs like this: Mr. Green has passed on, leaving his immediate subordinates (the Color Guard) to carry on. Members of the Color Guard always refer to the other members, in singular or collective, as Mr. Green, thus maintaining the illusion that there is still a “Mr. Green”.
The ironic thing is this organization is so steeped in secrecy none of the Color Guard suspects the actual Mr. Green is no longer there.
Well, there was Project Silvereye on The Big Board—but I thought that was AG-I, the gang of morally-superior idiot superheroes, rather than Shelby Silver. (By the way, Shelby never did explain what he was doing up at the safe house.)
Not sure what they can do if he’s uncooperative – forcing answers out of him is probably off the table [1], and Sweetheart will probably freak out if he points out that legally they’re taking part in a kidnapping. (Is there some way for them to get access to Whimsy’s mind control tech?)
[1] Unity would probably cheerfully volunteer to beat answers (and snot) out of him, but I don’t think Tip, Sweetheart, or the kids would approve it.
There may be a way to access Whimsy’s software, even though Whimsy sold it to A-Sig. There’s still the copy that Aimee is guarding inside the VR server that they gave to Baron Mistycorn when he left. And Lovelace would still have a backup copy, even though she “gave” it back to Whimsy.
And really, mind control is probably the only way they’d get any answers out of him. He is undoubtedly a master of misleading and mendacity, so it would be fairly easy for him to feign incompetence.
Well when your cover is blown you might as well clear up everything you can.