He claims that they all survived. I think the theatrical version (1973) shows the families of the rejected kids leaving the factory, but I might be misremembering.
In the books, canonically… basically none? Wonka was *definitely* as evil as they get. Dahl was a horror writer who found horror also worked well when writing for children, after all.
In the book, all kids survive. You get a short view of them at the end. Mike TV is stretched to basketball height and Veruca and father have fish bones and garbage in their hair. Always loved that part. In the movie, it’s much more ambiguous. Speaking of the Gene Wilder movie, of course.
If you’re working WITH them, you may not be crazy, but you ARE facilitating EVIL.
So, you’re sane, but EVIL. Like your government job? like working for the BANK?
So you’re a ‘good cop’? Uh-huh. Think about it. The story line is like a game trap….
keep following it and eventually youmake a choice you can’t reverse….
Continuous caffeine drip? Good wifi? Cute brain parasite with a scent of French vanilla? Access to all that knowledge that can’t be found on the Internet? No need to worry about extirpation? It would have to be one heck of a non-evil job offer.
Yeah, it does sound like the biomass is actually less evil than Anasigma. And clearly has far better employee benefits.
With Dr. Lee on board, Skin Horse could provide some of those things, but not all of them. If Tigerlily came back, SH could do better, but would certainly struggle to be able to offer all of the things available within the biomass.
Mr. Green could stand to learn some things from the biomass about employee recruitment and retention.
The latter, I think. They’re using mad intelligence as a firing pin to detonate the gestalt entity, the way a nuclear explosion is caused by a bunch of simultaneous smaller detonations. It’s… a neuron bomb.
Tip is saying the biomass wants their unstable intelligence.
I have a hunch that Mr. Green didn’t think that part through. He doesn’t think of non-humans – and therefore, the biomass – as intelligent creatures, so he just thinks the biomass has been killing off all the previous teams they’ve sent in, not absorbing their intellect.
Offer them a job at Skin Horse! I mean, it’s not really a job, since there’s no pay now, but I kind of doubt the biomass gives out much of a salary either.
Who says the bear was “killing” the scientists? It was mostly filled with plant matter, it probably was forcibly assimilating them into the collective.
There should be a happy medium somewhere, some lab she can research in without causing too much havoc to the rest of humanity. Dang it, why did Eureka go off of Syfy?
If you’re not perpetrating evil, are you *really* a mad scientist?
There are good mad scientists but their citation rate in the Journal of Malology are really low so they don’t get funding.
That’s the New Journal of Malology.
Sadly the non-evil Mads had a low survival rate while reproducing results due to typos, kinda skewed the balance.
Good mad scientists do exist, but are considered deeply creepy by the rest of the mad science community.
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That Narbonic strip has always made me wonder if Willy Wonka qualifies as a good or evil mad scientist.
I would say good. He was quirky and creepy, but that doesn’t make him evil.
Sooo… Chaotic Neutral?
Depends on how many of those kids actually survived.
He claims that they all survived. I think the theatrical version (1973) shows the families of the rejected kids leaving the factory, but I might be misremembering.
In the books, canonically… basically none? Wonka was *definitely* as evil as they get. Dahl was a horror writer who found horror also worked well when writing for children, after all.
In the book, all kids survive. You get a short view of them at the end. Mike TV is stretched to basketball height and Veruca and father have fish bones and garbage in their hair. Always loved that part. In the movie, it’s much more ambiguous. Speaking of the Gene Wilder movie, of course.
If you’re working WITH them, you may not be crazy, but you ARE facilitating EVIL.
So, you’re sane, but EVIL. Like your government job? like working for the BANK?
So you’re a ‘good cop’? Uh-huh. Think about it. The story line is like a game trap….
keep following it and eventually youmake a choice you can’t reverse….
Kudos to Seph for anticipating the caffeine drip!
Surely Tip has contacts who could secure Lt. Eris a position at Triple Canopy?
Continuous caffeine drip? Good wifi? Cute brain parasite with a scent of French vanilla? Access to all that knowledge that can’t be found on the Internet? No need to worry about extirpation? It would have to be one heck of a non-evil job offer.
Yeah, it does sound like the biomass is actually less evil than Anasigma. And clearly has far better employee benefits.
With Dr. Lee on board, Skin Horse could provide some of those things, but not all of them. If Tigerlily came back, SH could do better, but would certainly struggle to be able to offer all of the things available within the biomass.
Mr. Green could stand to learn some things from the biomass about employee recruitment and retention.
That’s all just the “sign up bonus”. It expires in 30 days.
Wait, is Tip saying the biomass wants unstable intelligence, or that Anasigma wants the biomass’ intelligence to be unstable?
…Are Ari *and* HT both steepling their fingers and laughing evilly?
The latter, I think. They’re using mad intelligence as a firing pin to detonate the gestalt entity, the way a nuclear explosion is caused by a bunch of simultaneous smaller detonations. It’s… a neuron bomb.
Is H.T. able to do that?
The steepling thing I mean.
H.T. doesn’t have fingers, per se, but I can easily picture a tiger sitting there doing something very similar with his paws.
Tip is saying the biomass wants their unstable intelligence.
I have a hunch that Mr. Green didn’t think that part through. He doesn’t think of non-humans – and therefore, the biomass – as intelligent creatures, so he just thinks the biomass has been killing off all the previous teams they’ve sent in, not absorbing their intellect.
Offer them a job at Skin Horse! I mean, it’s not really a job, since there’s no pay now, but I kind of doubt the biomass gives out much of a salary either.
Tip could offer the biomass a job at Skin Horse, and cut out the middleman.
I thought they were the first team of mad scientists sent in.
Wait, if the Biomass wants mad scientists, how come the bear kept killing them?
How do you know the bear wasn’t killing duplicates?
Who says the bear was “killing” the scientists? It was mostly filled with plant matter, it probably was forcibly assimilating them into the collective.
Isn’t this just how job-hunting always works? Trying to find the least evil option with the best benefits?
There should be a happy medium somewhere, some lab she can research in without causing too much havoc to the rest of humanity. Dang it, why did Eureka go off of Syfy?
That would qualify as one heck of a non-evil job offer.