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( I love that all the pieces are told to us ahead of time… We knew dreamselves could die. We knew Jade’s robot copies everything her dreamself does. We knew it would blow up at some point. Surprise! )

Not a very happy surprise mind you. But I have to give respect to any writer that puts in hints and foreshadowing in their story for this big of a payoff. Especially with time travel. And the way Hussie manages to keep his head on straight and keep his timelines in order, that just boggles my mind.

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( Jack holding up the white kings started The Reckoning, which if you remember is when meteors start launching towards Skaia. This is why the Lab meteor launched. The defense portals around Skaia are how some of the meteors ended up hitting Earth (like the one that hit Johns house for example)

See this is why I love recaps like this. Because with everything else I have to try and remember from this series, I knew that there was something that might have fallen in the cracks.

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( When GC tells dave his “Bro wont be there to bail him out this time”, she was referring to when Bro cut the meteor in half when Dave entered, because if he hadnt Dave wouldnt have entered in time and would’ve been hit by it)

Ah, see when I first read that I wasn’t sure what she was talking about. But after the video with the meteor thing, it all makes sense

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( “It is nice to get an explanation like this, but why is it that the “Reckoning starts when the Black King gets the power? Why not the white king who gets the black scepter?” 1) White King never gets the black scepter (see: white always looses). 2) Only the Black King wants destruction. Even if WK got the other scepter he wouldn’t want to use the power to start the Reckoning. )

ok yeah, I get that the in the context of SBURB the white pieces lost, which has the 4 players rise up to defeat the Black pieces. But in general, why is it the black side always the evil side and the white side is always the good side? I mean I get the symbolism, white=good, black=bad, but sometimes I just want to shake it up a bit, you know?

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(If you havent caught on to the parallels between karkat and john yet, id recommend rereading the first 5 or so pages in the comic, as well as pages 80-82. It’s not super important overall, but it is sorta interesting (or at least I think it is) )

Yeah, I got the naming thing because all of the kids have to go through that one way or another. But seeing how they both see an empty street and having a “long day” is pretty interesting. I’m going to have to keep an eye out for more parallels between the two of them from now on

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(Just a reminder, we’ve see ~ATH come up before along with the other punny coding languages John has dabbled with (pg. 4 & 11)

I was looking back and

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You’re right. I didn’t know. John also has the same shitty programming books as Karkat.

Also how long has this ink-oil crap been following you John!? This was on page fucking 15.

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Yeah I am calling it here.

So we have the introduction of the new troll Gamzee, one we have not met before. And in just 3 sentences he is already #2 in my Troll Ranking. Yes I am still doing that, but I will do the full explaination tomorrow when I have more time.

Overall, Gamzee is a positive person without sounding like a naive idiot, but it also high as well. I absolutely love my weird Juggalo troll.

There was also hint about the blood thing, I guess Blue = rich/high. So if it is in the color spectrum and blue is high, does that mean it goes like

  • RED    - - - - - - - - - - - - - PURPLE
  • POOR - - - - - - -  - - - - -  RICH

Just a guess, but I might be onto something

and we hear sayings from out IT guy again (I had to go back to make sure I knew who they were talking about) and yeah, gruff personalities tend to flock together