Yer immune to The Sound of Music
on May 20, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: Hurricane Joyce
Location: Island in the Bermuda Triangle #2
I mean, look at that first line. Amidst all the murdering of disposable noncharacters in the margins, all of the death and angst and what have you, Sal is shouting the most amazing thing.
“You’re immune to The Sound of Music!”
I think we should take a moment to appreciate this.
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Yeah, all those other people don’t matter, as long as Joyce gets her act together in time to save Jason and Mike!
Jason will be saved by the sheer power of britishness.
by the sheer power of keeping calm and carrying on
conceivably the best line in the Walkyverse
There’s something to be said for a story that’s so ridiculous it wraps right around back to serious.
Why is Jason even THERE? Seems like he would break the machine, since he’s not an abductee, and therefore not programmed as a thumb drive nor traumatized by The Sound of Music.
Well, it’s clear that HA doesn’t remember every single abductee. He probably assumed that everyone who came to find him was one… and he’s about to pay the price for the oversight.
I imagine that not only does Jason lack the physical strength to break the machine, he also will probably just give the machine useless information upon being ‘read’ (rather than the machine destroying itself or something). End result: dead Jason, regardless of his non-abductee status.
This is one of the goofiest lines right up there with “Jar Jar, you’re a genius” from Darth and Droids.
And I know we are trying to ignore the Jesus symbolism, but it looks like Jason got stabbed with a spear.
You know, I actually quite enjoyed the Sound of Music.
As did I, but then I didn’t have a little sister who insisted on playing it over and over and over and over and over and over and….
Well, you get the idea.
My wife does that. However, I hated it long before I met her. I also hate It’s a Wonderful Life and Annie.
Hurry Joyce! People whose names we know are in danger!
Maybe she’s just tone deaf.
Not tone deaf I don’t think, she just like the dang music…so called.
What exactly is wrong with The Sound of Music? Why is it a torture device in this storyline? I’m genuinely curious here, as I haven’t seen it since I was a kid and I remember nothing of the plot.
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/mentally/
The important thing is that they are programmed to have their brains shut down when they hear it. They are also programmed to be incapable of escaping it secured with duct tape.
* escaping WHEN secured with duct tape. I also don’t think “secured” is the correct word for that anyhow. What the hell was I thinking 5 seconds ago?
My theory is that, this being a sci-fi setting where Earth is infiltrated by aliens, the movie was altered by Head Alien during production so as to be filled with subliminal brain-destroying waves that have painful side effects on most people, but Joyce is immune because she built up a tolerance because the premise of the characters and stories so appealed to her that she spent many a tortured hour in her youth building up a tolerance during that narrow development window. Which is also why she was able to remember Walky being an abductee when no one was supposed to be able to; wiping the fact that Walky was there was done using the same brainwashing method.
It’s either that, or because young David Willis really, really hated it. Or some other reason.
prolly as simple as a misplaced semicolon in the programming somewhere
Does anyone even like Mike?
Probably not, but he gets shit done. Which they need, because everyone else is hideously incompetent.
But… Jason doesn’t even have anything in his head!!!! In theory!!!! THEY’D JUST ZAP HIM
On the one hand people just dying around them is horrifying.
On the other hand “You’re immune to the Sound of Music” is a hilarious line.
On the phantom limb it seems ridiculous that enjoyinga perfectly innocent movie with nice songs is makes you strong.