I kinda thought the dance itself would cause reintegration, and only bees would remain of the women. And I see that the bus is almost certainly not Nick.
Maybe his subconscious wants to trade them for prizes to give to Virginia as gifts.
My question is this: would Bus-Nick have a driver sitting in the driver seat? Perhaps Nick himself, in his old meatbody?
And before you say, “But Nick doesn’t have a pilot as a helicopter!”… actually he does! His brain is in a tank which is installed in the helicopter. So if the VR bus version of Nick doesn’t have a driver in the form of a person (as an expression of his psyche and self identity), it should at least have his brain in a jar buckled in.
I was thinking the same thing. He could get a big fluffy bunny – or a plush brain – to give to Virginia. Skee ball tickets are good for lots of things.
If the prizes were in a vending machine that only accepted skee-ball tickets, that might make sense. But they’re right out there on the shelves on the walls. Virginia just grabbed a bunch of glowsticks; there was no-one demanding recompense for them.
Specifically, it’s “No bus will come for you. Until you heal that which is broken, you are with us forever.”, which implies to me that it’s not that Virginia’s not allowed on the bus, but that the bus won’t just show up without Virginia taking action.
The dark interpretation of that is that all the other women — all of “us” — can leave on the the bus, but Virginia can’t. She won’t be with them forever if they’ve all left . . .
I don’t know if that’s what’s “really” meant. I just look for possibly faulty assumptions, especially with vaguely-worded prophecies and predictions.
Sure, if you stubbornly insist on interpreting “No bus will come for you” as “No bus will ever come for you under any circumstance“, rather than “No bus will come for you right now“.
I look at that bus, and I think, that sure looks whimsical. Or maybe even Whimsycal. Or maybe, to be even more pedantic, Tanchibical (“Whimsy acquired Tanchibi Studios in the ’80s“)
Could the driver be Aimee, Baron Mistycorn, or duplicate-Nick-who-wandered-away-and-was-never-seen-in-that-storyline-again (Backup!Nick for short)?
NB: Since it occurs to me that not everyone is familiar with Japanese anime — Just as Whimsy is an obvious alt-Disney, so too is Tanchibi an obvious alt-Studio Ghibli, in that Studio Ghibli has made a deal with Disney (not quite the level of “acquisition”), and, as referenced above, the Ghibli-release “My Neighbor Totoro” has a famous and iconic Catbus.
“Too much, Magic Bus!”
Was just about to mention that vehicle 😀
Obvious music is obvious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl9bvuAV-Ao
I kinda thought the dance itself would cause reintegration, and only bees would remain of the women. And I see that the bus is almost certainly not Nick.
Sigh.
I hadn’t heard that song before. It was weird.
Wow. I haven’t heard that song for ages! Thanks for the memories.
Same
Not necessarily not Nick.
But not exactly the Cat bus from Totoro either
Seatbelts, everyone!
Awww, it treated my “Ms Frizzle” tags as real html. 🙁
Awwww…!
Prediction: just like the Emerald City, seeing the truth will require removing the glasses…
what if… that’s Nick
Good question.
I’d be an interesting twist.
Then? Then he will snark.
What would nick want skeeball tickets for?
Maybe his subconscious wants to trade them for prizes to give to Virginia as gifts.
My question is this: would Bus-Nick have a driver sitting in the driver seat? Perhaps Nick himself, in his old meatbody?
And before you say, “But Nick doesn’t have a pilot as a helicopter!”… actually he does! His brain is in a tank which is installed in the helicopter. So if the VR bus version of Nick doesn’t have a driver in the form of a person (as an expression of his psyche and self identity), it should at least have his brain in a jar buckled in.
Nick is the helicopter.
You don’t refer to your brain as the helmsman that drives you, do you?
I was thinking the same thing. He could get a big fluffy bunny – or a plush brain – to give to Virginia. Skee ball tickets are good for lots of things.
If the prizes were in a vending machine that only accepted skee-ball tickets, that might make sense. But they’re right out there on the shelves on the walls. Virginia just grabbed a bunch of glowsticks; there was no-one demanding recompense for them.
Ms. Friizzle? Wow! What a crossover!
… nice comment from -another- timelord…! XD
That’s one tricked out metaphor.
Hey, if you have to have a visual metaphor, it might as well be stylin’.
I just remembered that the prediction was that “No bus will come for [Virginia Lee]”. Does that mean that this bus is only for everyone else?
And are those bee wings behind the fin?
I figure the bus and / or its driver are another part of the divided Gavotte (or whoever it is that’s divided).
Seconded.
Specifically, it’s “No bus will come for you. Until you heal that which is broken, you are with us forever.”, which implies to me that it’s not that Virginia’s not allowed on the bus, but that the bus won’t just show up without Virginia taking action.
The dark interpretation of that is that all the other women — all of “us” — can leave on the the bus, but Virginia can’t. She won’t be with them forever if they’ve all left . . .
I don’t know if that’s what’s “really” meant. I just look for possibly faulty assumptions, especially with vaguely-worded prophecies and predictions.
Sure, if you stubbornly insist on interpreting “No bus will come for you” as “No bus will ever come for you under any circumstance“, rather than “No bus will come for you right now“.
A simple experiment establishing cause and effect relationship.
It looks like the Magic School Bus had a baby with a caterpillar. Or a bee larva, I suppose.
OK, one more whack notion:
I look at that bus, and I think, that sure looks whimsical. Or maybe even Whimsycal. Or maybe, to be even more pedantic, Tanchibical (“Whimsy acquired Tanchibi Studios in the ’80s“)
Could the driver be Aimee, Baron Mistycorn, or duplicate-Nick-who-wandered-away-and-was-never-seen-in-that-storyline-again (Backup!Nick for short)?
NB: Since it occurs to me that not everyone is familiar with Japanese anime — Just as Whimsy is an obvious alt-Disney, so too is Tanchibi an obvious alt-Studio Ghibli, in that Studio Ghibli has made a deal with Disney (not quite the level of “acquisition”), and, as referenced above, the Ghibli-release “My Neighbor Totoro” has a famous and iconic Catbus.
The bus does seem to have a kindly face.
This never happened in my old VR!
… Waiting For Gavotte….
(Which is only fitting, since we began this chapter — as the comments pointed out — learning that Rosenkranz Is Dead…)
Get on the Bus!
Is anyone else trying very, very hard to shut off the part of their brain responsible for imagining Mrs. Apis krumping?
Now that you mention it… no 😉
At least she’s not twerking! 😛
Well, they are talking about dancing, so that rules out twerking right there.