Page Commentary No. 188

Psu: Yeah this page is still pretty good.

Gunwild: I wish people hadn't given me the impression that anchovies were gross when I was a kid. I didn't try them for so long. And now I like them a lot! I'm eating pizza with some right now.

Psu: It’s one of the things we can blame the teenage mutant ninja turtles for. That and a rise in nunchuck related accidents. Anyway, I know we butted heads on this page a bit. And not like in the cute Beebot/Peia way in that last panel.

Gunwild: Yep!

Psu: I think you said something in the newspost on this page, that seems pertinent. Something about returning a beloved pet to an enemy captain?

Gunwild: Nope, my newspost on this was mostly about Westworld. That other stuff was a later comic that's comin' up in several updates!

Psu: Maybe I’m thinking of that scene in The Patriot where Mel Gibson returns the pet dogs to the British General. Except the dogs became more loyal to Mel Gibson for some reason... That would be a very different ending to this strip.

Gunwild: He didn't return the dogs, he called them to go with him at the end of the scene! Your Patriot trivia is shoddy! This commentary is a trainwreck!

Psu: That movie was kinda makin a wreck of history. Anyway. Speaking of movies. This was one of the few pages where we had a significant change added a day or so after the original post. I toyed with a version where we could get a “headsup display” for Beebot, kinda like the Terminator except cute. It would help sell the whole, first person perspective angle of this page.

Gunwild: Yeah, I was for that and I liked including the thing in panel six that mentions the scanning. For story reasons, y'know.

Psu: bOS is a top tier joke. There’s also another joke that wasn’t included in this page where Beebot sorta almost mistakes Nisa for Cassiopeia but that’s because I only draw the same four or five faces all the time.

Gunwild: We included that sketch for $7-tier people, it's just her with a label that says "Correct Kid?" and she's like "It's lookin' at me funny..." Solid self-deprecating gag though.

Psu: We’ve a more of those than self-appreciating gags that’s for sure. Hey before we close this commentary, should we address the weeks long conspiracy in our comments section about how Zeke’s origin story was that he was a reformed Beebot? I mean... I think we’ve settled that matter but that was probably among the most entertaining comments we’ve had in the strip. We get a number of people speculating where the plot goes, from time to time. But that was my favorite left field idea.

Gunwild: I didn't even think about that seriously... honestly I find the thing in Panel 3 about Beebots being discontinued chilling enough in this weird setting where kids' toys apparently feel actual love. Even though that was part of my actual initial idea for his backstory.

Psu: Maybe we should stop this conversation before we veer off into philosophical messes about whether or not love is just chemical programming. We could instead talk about the cutie robot, QT pi, in panel 2, who I got to borrow from our friend Ian Samson.

Gunwild: It made me wonder if a fleet of delivery drones developed so much that they upgraded themselves to robot bodies and just opened their own package delivery copy.

Psu: Save it for when we write our Black Mirror spec script.

Gunwild: "What if... technology. But then... TOO MUCH technology?!"