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My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est:The first of only two double pages in the whole comic! The problem with double pages is that they must be placed on adjacent pages, and there must be an even number of pages between them if you have more than one. My script contained descriptions for two disjoint pages, but Powree successfully created a double page layout. I would have liked to see the scenes drawn in some kind of non-Euclidean style, but Powree probably found that too hard since the scenes mainly depict people instead of objects. While Lilith is obviously influencing past events, I want to leave it open to interpretation whether things like Viviana’s visions were sent back in time by Lilith deliberately, or whether they happened as an involuntary side effect.
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If she can influence past events, why does Ryker have to be dead? 🙁
@ bh:
Because she has just limited control. She can do SOME changes but not ANY changes.
So what are all the events?
I see Lilith regaining her soul orb and learning her future self’s plan, the events leading to Eldor’s “death” in the castle, the Bar/Bhaal party incident, manipulating whatshisface to deliver the newspaper to Ryn.. not sure of the rest immediately.
Maybe it’s like in the real world. For instance, if we want to know some aspects of the past *exactly*, we can’t, because there is a lot of noise, and things happened as they did with a really wide margin of tolerance, a chaotic system heavily depends on initial conditions (the butterfly effect), small, apparently irrelevant changes yields absolutely disparate outcomes, in non-chaotic, things are more resilient, usually homeostatic, but anyway, in both of them, by their own nature, we cannot know certain details of the past (you can think about it as some kind of Heisenberg principle, if you know all about A, you know nothing about non-A), so Lili is changing what is absolutely necessary for the desired outcome, it means, increasing the chance of the desired outcome, but still existing a probability surely significant of another, non desired, outcome(s), she can’t change anything more not only perhaps she isn’t able, because if she even could, she could not foresee the consequences of that change(s).
Awesome scene! I rather like it, it’s almost kind of a summary of sorts.
As to why she couldn’t save certain people and make things perfect? Well, she’s still an imperfect person. She’s not all-powerful, just very, very powerful. Being able to see and affect the timelines doesn’t make her all-knowing. I highly doubt she has the ability to see every detail of every timeline. Her past descriptions sounds more like a decision tree and relative itensity/brightness. To me that sounds like she’s filtering for certain results, and choosing paths based on which ones lead to the highest probability of the desired end-state. That’s not total control, that’s just stacking the odds in favor of the desired outcome. Still uncomprehensibly powerful, just not *all*-powerful. And very, very, impressive.
Double-page spreads are a curiousity to me.
– In print, the binding of the pages means that anything in the center of the double-page spread will be heavily distorted or even cut off. Which, in this case, would include Lilith’s face.
– On mobile devices, the small screen size makes viewing double-spreads problematic. Even on a tablet, usually one page will be viewed at a time, reducing the double-page spread to an awkward need to rotate the device. Plus, some reader software (looking at you, Amazon) does a REALLY bad job of that.
– That leaves only vewing on desktop screens for where the double-page spreads really work well, but that’s probably the exception since 10 years.