An exceptional literary-historical allusion, but not so subtle, which is fine. I'd say Sonya is more Cassius, so Angel will end up saying, "et tu, Yuki?"Spidrift wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 11:35 amOkay, so I was wrong about Sonya actually joining Bianca on her adventures. Well, I guess it shows she's genuinely getting away from the toxic temptations of a town with Zii in it, and setting up a Zii-Angel plotline.
Somebody should tell Angel about good and bad historical figures to claim as inspirations, though. Julius Caesar wasn't a terribly nice man, and ended up getting stabbed in the back by his friends when they thought his ambition was getting out of hand.
(Hmm - have we actually got a subtle literary-historical allusion in this strip, with Sonya as Brutus?)
It seems to be the writers' model for final closure, though. You're right that Sonya's character arc had already finished; I'd set the end point at the moment when she destroyed Zii's band and Yuki's illusions with four words -- that was the point when the student proved that she was now the master, and that she'd seen the folly of her Zii fixation. But she's now being given a classical comedy happy ending. Similarly, Gary's character arc ended when he rejected Tracy and James, told a simple truth rather than a silly lie, and walked home with his head held high to a sane woman who wanted shared good sex with him -- but his story is still dragging on, because he supposedly needs some kind of confirmed final pair. And Yuki and Matt are getting their pairing as a (rather thin) resolution for their character issues.AlexDenton wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:19 amSonya's story was fine, this is so unnecessary. We don't need all the characters to end up with someone.
I'll also guess at this point that Izzy and Terry will pair up and start trying to actually improve by hard work and paying their dues.
Angel's self-proclaimed similarity to Julius Caesar was apt, as they face a downfall caused by closest allies at the beginning of grander ambitions, although the Senate plotted, whereas Sonya just took a page from the Zii handbook of being insanely impulsive, selfish, and disregarding consequences or commitments. So, it'd be like if instead of stabbing Caesar, Cassius dropped a banana peel that Caesar slipped on and cracked his head on the senate floor.
On the note of dragging on Sonya's character arc: the aforementioned selfish and irresponsible action of abandoning a commitment to get her freak on seems to show she hasn't progressed properly at all. Her prior pursuit of Zii displayed a pathological toxicity, which seemed to have passed when she finally realised Zii was a terrible person; yet by following her lust, she became more or less exactly like Zii?
Both Zii and Sonya have displayed unpleasant traits, and arguably sociopathic tendencies, yet both had suffered to the point of perhaps, for lack of a better term, starting to grow up. I know I'm probably repeating myself, yet it is worth stressing that Sonya is repeating the mistakes of her old obsession, Zii, which she seemed to have understood as someone not to look up to, therefore behaving like Zii did is unsatisfactory for Sonya's arc.
I guess Sonya will always be addicted to drama, yet it appeared as though she learned about the gravity of consequences.
I also don't need "confirmed pairs," for a lot of the characters, although I would prefer a confirmed NOT pair of Yuki with that scummy Matt; she had serious issues, but seemed ultimately like a decent person, whereas he is the worst of Zii without having any musical talent, so shoving Yuki into a relationship with Matt seems unfair to her and something he doesn't deserve (in that, he deserves to be alone).