March 15th, 2019
15 Mar 2019 · page 882 of 1306
I'm sure it's fine.
Cast: Eliza Swift, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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So he didn't think up some new method on his own. So..she wants a fall guy for her mind control magic in case it gets found out, and makes him her partner, he blows the whole thing early by telling the whole class and she has to do it earlier than she expected?
I think he did think up the method (or most of it) on his own - I don't think the report Eliza is holding is the paper they're looking for. Part of why I think he did think it up on his own is Sharpe's flashback of presenting it to the class. Despite that he made himself sound grandiose among the students, his flashback told the truth in that it showed not only the students reacting with exasperation, but Flack reacting with surprise.
I don't think that paper is what they're looking for either? It's just proof his grades may not mean he can come up with a new -actually viable- method on his own. And I think Flacks surprise in class can be that he was dumb enough to present in class what was supposed to be a secret thing they were working on and now she had to move forward her plans a lot faster.
And Flack could react with "!" if "he blows the whole thing early by telling the whole class" as Yah suggested.
I don't say I think it is what happened then, just I think it isn't impossible.
....and then the vent gets magically fixed and their misunderstanding is cleared up!
Well, he certainly didn't yell "here" when brains were given out. Seems the name is the only thing sharp at William...
So he is an idiot after all. Well, that should surprise absolutely no o... no, I can't be mean to Sharpe here, he looks like he's just about ready to cry.
I too was gonna say something mean but he looks so sad I want to hug him :(
He's not just sad. He's feeling betrayed. He just said that he knew only one person who hadn't lied to him. Now he thinks Knotty is like all the others (in his family?) who had "played" with him. That's a huge backstory.
the one person who he thinks hasnt lied to him is flack. he probaby already thought knotty was a liar in general because he's a lawyer.
edit: wait a minute i dont know if anyones said this before but i just realized that he didnt get a lawyer because he thinks they would make up lies to incriminate flack, who he believs is innocent, not because they wpuld think he was innocent but because its their job to do so. oh man... if only people would look past his family's money they would see he would be a very good friend... and thats aside from his mind control. you can trust someone totally but to be loyal to them over your own well being is something else entirely. of course i could be entirely wrong and all ive done is made a big blovk of text in which way im sorry everyone :P
Not only sad, but just so very scared. This is a horrifying scenario for him, really. He truly does need that hug.
To everybody who would say nasty things about Will...
I'd suggest to remind Mal - the furst time we saw him: a stand-offish brute, a cheat at cards and so on...
Or Ben. An unfriendly neurotic psycho, so afraid of people that he doesn't dare to shake their hands, isn't he?
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And perhaps he (Will) didn't want them to see Flack's paper bc (among other things, such as Sharpening, perhaps) he didn't want them to see his grades.
Well, to be fair, there are people who got to like (and appreciate) Mal or Ben only at the beginning of "Curtain Call". :) Though I'm not one of them, and I agree with your message wholeheartedly.
Surely one might be guilty of worse things than low grades, and actually I could suspect Dr Flack intentionally made her report on Sharpe worse than it could have been, to use him for her purposes.
But I must admit, I'm somewhat puzzled with Sharpe's reaction in the fourth panel there: [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-9th-2018 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-9th-2018")
OK, the "excellent" part may be a "mask", a "facade", just a lie... but he seems sincerely discouraged by the fact that newspapers didn't write about his excellent works. Could he get himself into all that mess just for gaining undeserved laurels?
Will strikes me as the kind of person who has a high opinion of himself despite any evidence to the contrary. He may be getting low grades, but that doesn't seem to have stopped him from considering himself a misunderstood genius.
Out on the left end of Dunning-Kruger.
Actually Judging from What I can read of his report Card I'm wondering if Will actually as an Unconvential Learning style compared to Standards. that "Apply himself" remark is making me suspicious.
Maybe he’s a little like Sid, who has a lot of natural talent, but isn’t much good at studying.
It's looking like he did write that paper on his own -- so there's the evidence to the contrary. That's not a thing a stupid person could do. He had been getting low grades, and the class believed he was stupid... not because he is stupid, but because he sourly wanted to disappoint his family.
He did, admittedly, fail to think through the potential bad consequences of the paper before presenting it, but hey, it was a scrambling last-minute effort.
I think his overconfident talk in the jail cell that we initially read as being so out of touch with reality, was bravado born of fear.
You know, I had a thought that Dr. Flack promised Sharpe that he wouldn't be hanged (as she visited him in the cell) and he believed her. Though his using the spoon seems to disprove that idea.
Actually, Mal wasn't cheating at cards - he was using an ability his opponents didn't have/know about.
Roughly analogous to a person with full normal vision playing against blind opponents who have to rely on the markings on a Braille deck while he can see the card faces.
"Cheating, but not in illegal way" is the phrasing Mal himself agreed to. :)
We didn't know (or didn't fully understand) the thing about his vision first.
And, tbh, his play, using his special skill, wasn't absolutely fair, imho.
Imagine yourself his partner in such a game :) Would you like it?
"Fair" and "cheating" are really not analogous or co-extant.
In poker, cheating is generally legal if you don't get caught.
I am not sure I would mind playing against him, presuming I knew how it worked before we started. Fooling his ability would just be another kind of poker face.
Poor Will...he's in desperate need of big shiny red "DON'T PANIC" button, and there is nary a Hitchhiker's Guide in sight!
Their relationship is all breaking down the drain
If you look more closely at the report, there are phrases like “should apply himself” and “try harder.” I wonder if the issue isn’t that William has trouble with the content but instead of that he doesn’t study or try to succeed—possibly because he doesn’t care that much about his reputation or his future.
It would probably make Will feel better to know that the reason Knotty is going through all this is to keep him from being hanged. Too bad the collapse of the vent is preventing him from explaining...
The way that Sharpe is now scared of Knott is hilarious. I can't picture being frightened of Knott in any circumstance--even if he was about to pull the lever for me.
Oh no, what a terrible misunderstanding! Knotty isn't going to ki*ll* Will, he's going to ki*ss* him! He doesn't want to hang him, he wants to ba...ke him a cake to celebrate his acquittal when he proves his innocence yes
good save
He was misquoted!
"Well it's official and state-sanctioned, so we prefer 'terminate' over 'kill'. We tried to use 'inhume' for a while, but some serious men dressed all in in black velvet & knives came and told us that was their term, so..."
Discworld reference!
Some notes:
- Sharpe isn't stupid. He may even be fairly intelligent. As noted on his report card, though, he does not apply himself.
- Nobody commented on the pun...
- Never panic whilst sneaking through the vents.
"apply himself"?
"try harder"?
Words every student dreads to hear their teachers say.
Everything suddenly got way too real for Will.
Maybe it's just because I'm a bigger guy, but it's amazing to me that they managed to turn around in that space.
Even in the middle of the perilous adventure she's been dragged into, Eliza is not about to pass up a perfect pun opportunity when she sees one. If she hadn't already become my new favorite, this definitely would've cemented it.
I think they are rather similar. One is running from their grim reality of failing their goal and the other is running from their reality of failing their grim goal.
The kind you'd expect to bond over a drink at the bar, except that both order juice instead.
Is 'Not as Sharpe' a clever illusion to one of the ways this will resolve itself? That is to say, Knot masquraiding as Sharpe. Or just that they may ship together. :D