It’s actually nice to see that Zachary rethought his position on hitting on a taken woman. Speaking just for myself, I really disapprove of that, no matter the genders of anyone involved. It looks like he realized just how much he was enjoying what he was doing… and that he was enjoying it for all the wrong reasons.
He’s not looking happy that she’s taking an interest in what he’s up to, and the first thought he has when she admits she’s lost interest in Thwip is “danger”, not something hopeful.
Though (even if I’m a few days late on saying anything on this) I did think it was a weird bit of leveling up that he was suddenly able to become a human lie detector a few pages back… based on such things as knowing her nails looked like they’d recently been using nail polish… when she only had her hands in general visible to him for … what, a minute? And she was moving them around, too, so getting a good look at the nails… >_>
I realize he’s supposed to be really good at perceiving things now (and completely unable to deceive himself), but it seems like one heckova talent for someone who was just recently a social outcast to have picked up in only a few weeks.
Nyzer, for me, that’s sort of what raises it from talent to super-power, right?
When you look at the way it’s framed, the new Sherlock is essentially a superhero show. It’s a story about someone doing what nobody can do.
The brain-altering cocktail shown here reminds me a great deal of the one in Limitless, particularly in the things it does and the change it brings in the subject. I think they’re going a different direction with their themes, though.
@Just Me- The recipe is dedicated effort towards improving one’s body. THAT is ZZ’s super power. He has gained an understanding that usually takes years to reach, that there is no magic recipe, just work. If you want something, you work to get it and work to maintain it.
@Nyzer – it may be even worse/better than you think. The impression I got from that scene was that ZZ knew immediately that she wasn’t what she claimed to be, without the need for hints like the state of her nails, and that he didn’t call her on it until he A) knew what she wanted, and B) had come up with more mundane explanations for why she was a phony than “I have magical truth-vision”.
C’mon Jo, keep careening that train and ZZ you just keep being awkward and incapable of maintaining a relationship we can make a hell of a train wreck out of this yet!
“The impression I got from that scene was that ZZ knew immediately that she wasn’t what she claimed to be,”
Well, apparently her acting was terrible. That false identity, unless it’s one she’s assumed before for -whatever- reason, is so far removed from what her real identity seems to be, that ZZ suspected she was different from the moment she started talking to him. He was incredibly suspicious that she was being friendly towards him, for example – which, if he’s being perceptive and has experience with Ditkovites or a fair bit of knowledge about them (and we don’t know how much is general knowledge about them in ZZ’s world) – makes a ton of sense.
I don’t even particularly mind that he noticed her flinch at the word “abortion”; presumably she reacted differently than he’s seen other people react to the word before, or he’s seen people react like that when he brings up a hidden-sore-spot topic.
It’s just that he’s apparently more or less incapable of lying now, and he basically cites her nails as THE biggest thing. Unless he studied manicure, how and why would ZZ know what the differences are between polished/unpolished/recently-but-not-currently polished nails – especially when he would have barely had a GLANCE at her fingernails?
There’s being perceptive (and a bit paranoid, I mean, he accuses her of being part of a “government sting” for crying out loud), but then there’s uh… that. It’s incredibly specific knowledge (almost gender-specific, really) with a very narrow window to have observed it… he’s only had his altered mental state for a few weeks, so it’s very, very strange that he’s picked up an ability THAT broken in so short a time.
@PlutoniumBoss – I was attempting to reference the October 2nd comic where ZZ cooks up a …soup… for “long-term cell growth” and how that seems to be working, looking at his arms in this comic.
But I agree with you that in this reality hard work pays better than looking for the latest fad diet or “magic” weight-loss / body-building pill.
“My Two-Timey Sense is tingling!”
Either that or Thwip is about to barrel through the door and attack poor ZZ.
It’s actually nice to see that Zachary rethought his position on hitting on a taken woman. Speaking just for myself, I really disapprove of that, no matter the genders of anyone involved. It looks like he realized just how much he was enjoying what he was doing… and that he was enjoying it for all the wrong reasons.
He’s not looking happy that she’s taking an interest in what he’s up to, and the first thought he has when she admits she’s lost interest in Thwip is “danger”, not something hopeful.
Though (even if I’m a few days late on saying anything on this) I did think it was a weird bit of leveling up that he was suddenly able to become a human lie detector a few pages back… based on such things as knowing her nails looked like they’d recently been using nail polish… when she only had her hands in general visible to him for … what, a minute? And she was moving them around, too, so getting a good look at the nails… >_>
I realize he’s supposed to be really good at perceiving things now (and completely unable to deceive himself), but it seems like one heckova talent for someone who was just recently a social outcast to have picked up in only a few weeks.
Nyzer, for me, that’s sort of what raises it from talent to super-power, right?
When you look at the way it’s framed, the new Sherlock is essentially a superhero show. It’s a story about someone doing what nobody can do.
The brain-altering cocktail shown here reminds me a great deal of the one in Limitless, particularly in the things it does and the change it brings in the subject. I think they’re going a different direction with their themes, though.
..he never saw her as a potential love interest, now did he
Spidey-sense, spidey-sense, does what ever it wants to do…
it shames me that in a comments thread with such introspective and intelligent discussion this is all I feel I can offer:
“Epic”
That is all.
Can I get that recipe for body-building juice? Looks like it’s working very well for Z.
@Just Me- The recipe is dedicated effort towards improving one’s body. THAT is ZZ’s super power. He has gained an understanding that usually takes years to reach, that there is no magic recipe, just work. If you want something, you work to get it and work to maintain it.
@Nyzer – it may be even worse/better than you think. The impression I got from that scene was that ZZ knew immediately that she wasn’t what she claimed to be, without the need for hints like the state of her nails, and that he didn’t call her on it until he A) knew what she wanted, and B) had come up with more mundane explanations for why she was a phony than “I have magical truth-vision”.
“fear of commitment” sense tingling?
What’s so fascinating about her cleavage in the last panel? Is she being introspective?
spider sense ? my first thought was danger will Robinson danger
C’mon Jo, keep careening that train and ZZ you just keep being awkward and incapable of maintaining a relationship we can make a hell of a train wreck out of this yet!
I’m thinking his “truth compulsions” are spreading to others
“The impression I got from that scene was that ZZ knew immediately that she wasn’t what she claimed to be,”
Well, apparently her acting was terrible. That false identity, unless it’s one she’s assumed before for -whatever- reason, is so far removed from what her real identity seems to be, that ZZ suspected she was different from the moment she started talking to him. He was incredibly suspicious that she was being friendly towards him, for example – which, if he’s being perceptive and has experience with Ditkovites or a fair bit of knowledge about them (and we don’t know how much is general knowledge about them in ZZ’s world) – makes a ton of sense.
I don’t even particularly mind that he noticed her flinch at the word “abortion”; presumably she reacted differently than he’s seen other people react to the word before, or he’s seen people react like that when he brings up a hidden-sore-spot topic.
It’s just that he’s apparently more or less incapable of lying now, and he basically cites her nails as THE biggest thing. Unless he studied manicure, how and why would ZZ know what the differences are between polished/unpolished/recently-but-not-currently polished nails – especially when he would have barely had a GLANCE at her fingernails?
There’s being perceptive (and a bit paranoid, I mean, he accuses her of being part of a “government sting” for crying out loud), but then there’s uh… that. It’s incredibly specific knowledge (almost gender-specific, really) with a very narrow window to have observed it… he’s only had his altered mental state for a few weeks, so it’s very, very strange that he’s picked up an ability THAT broken in so short a time.
@PlutoniumBoss – I was attempting to reference the October 2nd comic where ZZ cooks up a …soup… for “long-term cell growth” and how that seems to be working, looking at his arms in this comic.
But I agree with you that in this reality hard work pays better than looking for the latest fad diet or “magic” weight-loss / body-building pill.
@Just Me- Probably whey protein and b vitamin supplements.
Cripes, now I can’t unsee this … Those “danger” markings look remarkably like sperm cells.
Wouldn’t that be an interesting wrinkle!
And my INT score just took a hit. >.>
I could use a sixh sense like that.