*facepalm* I misremembered what PM and Jack were looking at. Serves me right for commenting before rewatching.
You may well also be right about the dreambubble. I kinda hate trying to interpret the animations sometimes, I'm not sure if I'm just not good at it or if Hussie is just not as good at conveying things textlessly as he thinks.
I mean that Caliborn has seemed kinda pathetic and incompetent up until this animation. There's the drawing, but also the occasional comedic misspeaking (e.g., when he revealed his attraction to Calliope to Dirk via Freudian slip), the thinking he's being totally badass and evil when he's really not (the chess game with Calliope, getting Dirk to draw him "porn"), and his gloating over the alpha kids' "deaths" when it was in at least some cases pretty evident that they weren't nearly down for the count yet. Of course, in reality it's pretty obvious that he is quite competent, and anyone who expected otherwise hasn't been reading very long seeing as John is about the only major character who isn't at least significantly different than the first impression they give. It's also entirely possible (well, probable) that Caliborn is LE, it's just that I can't put it past Hussie to surprise us again, just because it is so obvious to long-time readers that Caliborn should turn out to be Lord English. I know I'm probably just overthinking this.
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Date: 2012-07-29 10:31 pm (UTC)You may well also be right about the dreambubble. I kinda hate trying to interpret the animations sometimes, I'm not sure if I'm just not good at it or if Hussie is just not as good at conveying things textlessly as he thinks.
I mean that Caliborn has seemed kinda pathetic and incompetent up until this animation. There's the drawing, but also the occasional comedic misspeaking (e.g., when he revealed his attraction to Calliope to Dirk via Freudian slip), the thinking he's being totally badass and evil when he's really not (the chess game with Calliope, getting Dirk to draw him "porn"), and his gloating over the alpha kids' "deaths" when it was in at least some cases pretty evident that they weren't nearly down for the count yet. Of course, in reality it's pretty obvious that he is quite competent, and anyone who expected otherwise hasn't been reading very long seeing as John is about the only major character who isn't at least significantly different than the first impression they give. It's also entirely possible (well, probable) that Caliborn is LE, it's just that I can't put it past Hussie to surprise us again, just because it is so obvious to long-time readers that Caliborn should turn out to be Lord English. I know I'm probably just overthinking this.