June 7th, 2019
7 Jun 2019 · page 902 of 1306
Pretty terrible campaign slogan, if we're being honest
Cast: Eliza Swift, Robert Hackett, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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Well, poop.
If that's the only thing down that pit then they'll be lucky.
Soft landings~
Well the mayor's an idiot. Forgot that they needed Sharpe to be the fall guy for magic brainwashing.
What are you talking about? He still looks like a fall guy to me, more so than ever.
"Fall guy" and "falling guy" are surprisingly different things.
They want him to take the fall in either case.
They can say that Knott helped Will escape and execute him instead. Is anyone thinking of The Mikado?
Does this mean Mr Knott will end up marrying Dr Flack?
No, only Dr Flack needed Sharpe as the fall guy. He doesn't seem the type to be loyal to his allies and so probably doesn't care about protecting her from suspicion so long as he avoids blame. Now the brain washing is done Dr Flack is not only the next possible loose end but also a very dangerous one that he knows may one day brainwash him as the next puppet.
That's embarrassing! How can Ms Rana have an anti-hanging demonstration if there's no-one to hang? Not that she cares anymore.
Well, guess when push comes to shove the Mayor doesn't have time for drop outs ^^;;
Also now I can't stop imagining O'Malley swearing like mad about these unexpected visitors just dropping in XD
Well... on the plus side, we get to find out what’s down there!
Good thing it's a magic pit, right?
We think.....
(Eliza: "You THINK?!")
Maybe there's some Hope at the bottom that they can use to float back up here?
If not, I suspect we'll need someone stupid enough to summon Gluttony again to mess with Time. And, since you'd need to do it from one of the other anchors, you'd probably need Sloth to mess with Space.
Push the mayor down too, knotty! and then flack pushes him and then Adderstone pushes her and she falls down too from sleepy justice disease. like dominos! a perfect crime!
The sleepy woman is Councilwoman Rana, not Justice Adderstone (whom we haven't met).
I am rooting for the Purple Hippo of Happiness to be down in that pit.
Man, it could go really dark from here.
No, even darker.
Seriously. Even darker than that, too.
And none of them brought a lamp!
They may be eaten by a grue
[minutes later, they pop out the other side of the Earth, screaming]
Now what's Knotty going to do? Will he jump down after them, or try to do something up here?
i can't really imagine him being useful by himself
Though I can't really imagine him being useful falling down a bottomless pit either
This ! Is ! Widdershins.
Well lets see with Knotty being a conscientious objector when it comes to hangings and as he was the last person to see Sharpe in his cell, it should be easy enough for Flack to pin him as the one who let Sharpe escape and thus she still gets to have a hanging.
Of course this still leaves it open to allowing Swift and Sharpe to save him or Knott can just potentially Quiescete himself out.
He already knows the failsafe word and that Councilwoman Rana is under the spell. If he frees her right there, it's possible she could help him hold back Flack and the mayor, and assuming she remembers what happened when she was under the spell, she could help testify against them.
He knows the word, but can he use it? It’s entirely possible it only works when said in Wizard Speak.
I think it's not so much that it only works if you talk in Wizard Speak as it is if you're talking in Wizard Speak, that means it worked
Of course she just has to mind control him for that... however since he knows about the mind control he can plan beforehand to say the magic words to not be mind controlled even if he isn't mind controlled (because he wouldn't think he was when he was) and then... also there would be a lot more investigation for Knotty because the hangman's his dad and nobody else liked doing that job.
What are the odds they just come falling back down from the ceiling?
The end of Widdershins will just be a sitcom of all the cast stuck on that island trying to coexist
Now the theme to Gilligan's Island is playing in my head. Which dates me, I'm sure.
Fun fact about Gilligan's Island: The 7 characters were [meant to represent](https://www.npr.org/sections/incharacter/2008/01/your_turn_gilligan.html "https://www.npr.org/sections/incharacter/2008/01/your_turn_gilligan.html") the Seven Deadly Sins, who I believe also have some sort of connection to the story of Widdershins.
Huh - I remember them as more innocuous. What was Mary Ann's sin?
The article leaves out greed, envy, and gluttony. Mr. Howell could be greed, but that leaves Mary Ann and Mrs. Howell as envy and gluttony. I'm not sure any of them was a really good match...
Perhaps I must rewatch an episode (for the first time in decades) as research. I could imagine Mary Ann having a hard time forgoing extra cupcakes but I'm not sure what all there was to be gluttonous over on the island....
Envy, I believe. Especially of Ginger. In one episode, she even got bonked in the head and believed that she was Ginger.
Gilligan was Sloth. Professor was Pride. Ginger was Lust. Mr. Howell was Greed. And then the answers on the internet vary. One of the biggest points of contention is whether Skipper was Wrath or Gluttony. And then some say that Mrs. Howell was Sloth, because she did nothing useful.
All in all, I think it was more of a jumping off point, rather than a hard and fast rule.
"meant to"
The Marines Hymn scans to that tune, dangerously well.... ‘Scuse me, gotta run!
The Minnow was wrecked deliberately by the government. It was an experiment to see how a miniature cross‐section of American society would fare in a setting analogous to a post‐nuclear wasteland. It was the height of the Cold War, after all.
Uh oh. At least the post nuclear wasteland had palm trees?
With everybody trying to be voted off the island....
They fall for a very long time, then land on Harry.
ahhhH!
How to tell you've graduated to being a Real Villain™: push people over into long falls - to their deaths (you're hoping).
Hackett has a willingness to get his hands dirty that you would admire if he weren't using it for murder.
Huh, I wonder if they'll pop out on the island?
Evidently, he decided that it wasn't enough to set up Sharpe for the long drop...
I feel bad for Knotty. His friends will be fine, but HE doesn't know that <.<
Would a hangman normally carry a length of rope.
Oh yeah, you never know when you might need to hang someone on short notice
You need to hang them on tall notice.
Everyone who guessed the thing with the pit, give yourselves a pat on the back.
WhEeEeEeEeE
How would the portraits feel about this if they got wind of it? Or are they uh being restored?