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Elliot's behavior in the years when he met Tedd and Justin reminds me of a Knight-Errant. In the name of "Justice" attacking people weaker than himself who are attacking people weaker than themselves. Or as Elliot came to realize it later, bullying the bullies. It wasn't a viable model for a justice system a thousand years ago. And it still doesn't work.

"Society is to blame" is an overused and abused defense. The defendant's background obviously has some influence on their criminal actions. But criminal actions are still criminal. Whether or not the defendant didn't know the actions were criminal, or thought the actions were justifiable, doesn't change the fact that they were criminal actions. After the defendant is convicted of the criminal actions, background is a valid consideration when determining the degree of punishment and method of rehabilitation. But that comes after acknowledging that the defendant's actions were criminal.

Unfortunately, Magus is exhibiting behaviors that would seem to indicate that Magus alone knows what is best and right. Evidence and the opinions of others are irrelevant.

So Magus throws a magic tantrum, and Tedd just fixes everything in the morning?

We may be approaching the Aesop moment of this story. Changing your attitude is a greater transformation than changing your body.

www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2480 So why can't Magus have this discussion with Ellen? Wait until she recovers from what Sirleck did, and then ask her what she wants to do? Magus has spent YEARS in limbo. What could possibly be so urgent that he can not wait a few more hours? I very much want to see this "Explanation".

Most of that wasn't so obvious. It can be disturbingly easy to Dan Brown your audience.

When Nine Hundred comic appearances you reach, look as good you will not.

Are you telling me Michio Kaku is wrong about the noise on TV? He provides some of the best noise on TV.

We all know that Sarah is the expert at moving couches.

For about the first 300,000 years, there was no chemical problem in the Universe. Space was inflating while particles and anti-particles gleefully annihilated each other. Then we ran out of anti-particles. Quarks settled down into Protons and Neutrons. Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons assembled themselves into Atoms (mostly Hydrogen). You can still hear the noise that made when you hit static on your TV or Radio. Next Gravity got in on the act and made that Hydrogen collapse into clouds forming Galaxies. Smaller clouds in the Galaxies kept collapsing until they got so hot, the Hydrogen Atoms began fusing together into heavier atoms. At this point, these Hydrogen Clouds developed a incredible ego. They started calling themselves Stars and began racing each other to see who could be bigger, brighter, and hotter. The bigger the Star, the more heavy elements they left as waste in the process. And these elements have a habit of not getting along together. Still, this is a temporary situation. In about 1095 years, the universe should be back to a peaceful state of Photons and Sub-Atomic Particles being carried apart by inflating space.

You might get the impression that with all the times humans don't use their brain, we shouldn't need to worry about it running down before the rest of the body.

Magus, Magus, Magus... Through a series of accidents and abuses, you were thrust into a most horrific situation. A lot of us were willing to cut you quite a bit of slack. But now that slack has turned into enough rope with which you can hang yourself.

She is afraid to admit to others, and herself, that she SOMETIMES wants things that are far outside the life she usually leads.

The current governments, maybe. We who governed the Ancient Lands of Egypt tend to avoid water. Ramses II, for example, hasn't touched a drop in over four millennia.

My job often requires jerk-like behavior. Why should I be a jerk when no one is paying me?

Are we considering a full-blown "Boy Named Sue" scenario here?

There is a third option Many of us who spend most of our time sitting tend to grow a larger cushion.

A common element in the vast majority of human problems.

Susan was willing to play the game, at least in part, because the transformations that would happen to her would be outside her control. But now she must chose a temporary transformation. She must make that choice knowing that it is her choice alone. She must make that choice knowing that the others around her know that it is her choice alone. If you go into someone's home for a meal, you eat what you are served. If you go to a pot-luck or buffet, your choices are limited to what has already been prepared and presented. But if you are handed a menu, then the servers, the kitchen staff, and anyone who sees your dishes being presented knows that you have asked for that specific meal. It can, at times, be difficult to publicly admit "I want this".

I didn't even think of the fairy dolls. I was trying to imagine which character to cast in that role. And not coming up with good ideas. Maybe Catalina...

If the English language of his reality had a slightly different Great Vowel Shift, their version of Allan might end up as Ellen. On a tangent, I never really heard anything about The Great Vowel Shift until I got to college. I suspect that English Teachers deliberately hide this part of the history of the language to keep elementary students away from ready-made set of misspelling excuses. Speaking of language, apparently Elliot's command of sign language isn't quite proficient enough to make Ashley understand "Stay Down and Shut Up!"

Good Intentions can make for a very good pavement. ... Depending on your destination. I personally believe that the necktie is one of the silliest customs of our world.

It's too bad the job of personal jester or buffoon no longer exists. Susan would be the perfect kind of noblewoman to outwardly remain stoic at all times while letting her jester become overly excited, happy, or angry for her.

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