Eh. Not everybody understands everything. If you miss one thing, maybe you sneezed in episode 3 or something… maybe you misunderstood something and that screwed up a lot of other things… maybe you hate shows that do a specific thing and want to know if they do the thing before you binge it…
There is also the case where you do understand the ending but you are like, “No way, there has to be something more.” But there isn’t more, it is a vague open ending that is up to the viewers interpretation.
Or in cases like me where you do understand the ending, but can’t put it all in order in a coherent “this is what happened”, so a video of someone explaining it in an orderly, coherent manner helps with that.
Oh and let’s not forget one of my favorite “essays” on an ending, Smutboy’s several hour rant spread over several videos about ME3’s ending. I’ve watched that one several times just for entertainment. 😛
@Arcatus good God yes. I mean the people that made the show / movie / game / book are a whole lot better at storytelling than me, why are they asking me to finish the damed thing?
Though they dont need to swing into the complete opposite direction either – where they spend a good 3 chapters beating you over the head that Stabby McStabbers the Professional Puppy Poisoner is a bad person that does vaguely bad things (aka sits in the castle and monologues/ occasionally execute a nameless minion)
Missing things is reasonable. Not understanding the ending to the point that you need an explanation for what happened is kinda dumb though. Endings are usually pretty clear or deliberately ambiguous and meant to not have a fixed explanation.
Videos to discuss an ending are fine, but frigging ‘explanations’ as if endings are puzzles are rather silly.
This is less a commentary on the potential helpfulness of the articles, or people’s enjoyment of them, then it is on the sheer prolificness of these types of articles in the past few years, where nearly EVERYTHING has an “ending explained” article.
electricity isn’t generated by people running around in a hamster wheel 😉 Without humans there can still be power, clean water, etc. for some time. The facilities providing all that will just decline and stop working after some time without humans to do maintenance. Yes, looking at the state of the environment in the first panel it does seem that humanity has been gone for quite some time… However keeping in mind we are talking about humans and therefore cities will probably look just like that about a week after all hell breaks loose. also we do not know any… Read more »
Its probably the aliens are powering it with their own tech – I mean one of them was actively trying to get the computer to work so he could study the now extinct humans. Though I question how the internet is still functional.
I imagine a global archaeology project and there are teams around the world repairing internet servers so that teams like this can gather more information. Many web-pages would be too corrupt to recover, but not all.
never-mind, didn’t realise the previous skipped based on how the comics are grouped
Glen Finn
4 years ago
Yep. I could explain why I agree but that would just insult people.
Dan
4 years ago
The deepest, darkest secret is that there was never any meaning to begin with. Any meaning found is the meaning the viewer gives it.
Leon
4 years ago
Pfftt, nonsense. We all know the world ends in hot dogs
SpinelesS
4 years ago
Wait, there is an altered carbon season 3? That would be so nice, I remember reading the books years ago…
The rAt
4 years ago
Heh, shots fired. I’m torn between being a spouse who *constantly* has to explain the same thing we both just saw and being a parent who just doesn’t have the time to go back and rewatch/reread/replay to re-familiarize myself with the context of a payoff to a setup from 3+ Seasons/books/games ago if I’d forgotten it. I think the only valuable insight I can contribute is that some of the rise in those types of articles/videos is spawned by how long writers/networks/studios can drag their feet. 2+ year breaks between seasons because you didn’t plan for getting this far? Extended… Read more »
Joel
4 years ago
I’m not sure I get the last panel. I think I’ll go search for CAD comic ending explained.
BaufenBeast
4 years ago
I half expected an “ending of Half-Life 2.98473 explained” in that list.
VanillaCokeMule
4 years ago
Uh, just a quick heads up, Tim. When I got to the site today and I clicked the comics tab I got a pop up that the prevented me from clicking anything on the page. Hasn’t happened to me before and I just thought I’d let you know.
Merendel
4 years ago
I dont under stand the ending of this panel. Can anybody link a good lengthy explanation video?
Duane E Naulls
4 years ago
Yahoo’s stuffed full of those stupid articles. Thanks for agreeing that they’re a waste of web space…
Karrde
4 years ago
I think part of these videos popularity is being able to experience social interaction regarding a favored media. Most people get the endings to things. I think partially their popularity comes from the validation of an understanding, and to experience the media over again through the lense of another’s experience of that same media.
Enclave
4 years ago
Ending explained videos and articles don’t really bother me, what I find annoying is “# of things you missed” videos and articles, they’re all over the place and never tell me anything I actually missed or anything particularly interesting.
Anon200
4 years ago
I seriously hate these type of YouTube videos and every single one that pops up on my recommendation list gets the not interest.
Crestlinger
4 years ago
Thus is the fate of civilization doomed to wait, and Only wait, for Half Life 3.
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I don’t get it…
also first…
CAD Comic March 6th 2020 Explained!
https://cad-comic.com/comic/the-decline-of-civilization/#comments
Preach…
Eh. Not everybody understands everything. If you miss one thing, maybe you sneezed in episode 3 or something… maybe you misunderstood something and that screwed up a lot of other things… maybe you hate shows that do a specific thing and want to know if they do the thing before you binge it…
And even if you do understand it, videos like this are good at showing someone else’s perspective.
There is also the case where you do understand the ending but you are like, “No way, there has to be something more.” But there isn’t more, it is a vague open ending that is up to the viewers interpretation.
Lost comes to mind
The polar bear is just looking for a coke. Lol
Or in cases like me where you do understand the ending, but can’t put it all in order in a coherent “this is what happened”, so a video of someone explaining it in an orderly, coherent manner helps with that.
Oh and let’s not forget one of my favorite “essays” on an ending, Smutboy’s several hour rant spread over several videos about ME3’s ending. I’ve watched that one several times just for entertainment. 😛
I absolutely agree. I find a clever twist or unexpected revelation much more enjoyable than “Is she really the murderer? You decide!”
@Arcatus good God yes. I mean the people that made the show / movie / game / book are a whole lot better at storytelling than me, why are they asking me to finish the damed thing?
Though they dont need to swing into the complete opposite direction either – where they spend a good 3 chapters beating you over the head that Stabby McStabbers the Professional Puppy Poisoner is a bad person that does vaguely bad things (aka sits in the castle and monologues/ occasionally execute a nameless minion)
Sounds like a show I’d watch!
Found my new profile name
How much do you charge?
Missing things is reasonable. Not understanding the ending to the point that you need an explanation for what happened is kinda dumb though. Endings are usually pretty clear or deliberately ambiguous and meant to not have a fixed explanation.
Videos to discuss an ending are fine, but frigging ‘explanations’ as if endings are puzzles are rather silly.
This is less a commentary on the potential helpfulness of the articles, or people’s enjoyment of them, then it is on the sheer prolificness of these types of articles in the past few years, where nearly EVERYTHING has an “ending explained” article.
‘Tie your shoelaces, ENDING EXPLAINED’
“The 10 best no tie shoelaces in 2020.”
Spoiler: They are actually pretty damn good.
A-G-L-E-T
“Tie your shoelaces, ENDING EXPLAINED” Ending Explained!!
“Tie your shoelaces” deleted scenes show you were Palpatine’s clone…
This can also apply to politics, climate change, the Coronavirus, etc.
Sadly, we have lost the ability to think for ourselves.
more so, on politics left has been taught not to think but just obey
*than *proliferation
Thanks for explaining.
I now eagerly await someone posting an article explaining the ending of this comic page.
You can certainly find a bunch of stuff from self-important twits on “Loss.”
Wait! Look up! At the First comment replies, I helped!
Everyone’s dead, yet there’s electricity :D.
electricity isn’t generated by people running around in a hamster wheel 😉 Without humans there can still be power, clean water, etc. for some time. The facilities providing all that will just decline and stop working after some time without humans to do maintenance. Yes, looking at the state of the environment in the first panel it does seem that humanity has been gone for quite some time… However keeping in mind we are talking about humans and therefore cities will probably look just like that about a week after all hell breaks loose. also we do not know any… Read more »
It also could be that the aliens are funneling power into our technology as well.
Its probably the aliens are powering it with their own tech – I mean one of them was actively trying to get the computer to work so he could study the now extinct humans. Though I question how the internet is still functional.
Probably just his browser cache.
I imagine a global archaeology project and there are teams around the world repairing internet servers so that teams like this can gather more information. Many web-pages would be too corrupt to recover, but not all.
Ahahaha, I just knew there will be way too long of a discussion after that puny comment :D.
And that is why we need those articles. To explain these things!
I assume it’s not irony that the ending of this comic needs explaining….. along with the rest of it really 🙂
Jeez, space alien explorers. Save the real science and xenology for the space alien archaeologists, will you?
BTW, if you don’t move your ship in the next five minutes, it’s going to become dinner for a Lavos spawn.
Did Tim delete the Corona Virus comic?
never-mind, didn’t realise the previous skipped based on how the comics are grouped
Yep. I could explain why I agree but that would just insult people.
The deepest, darkest secret is that there was never any meaning to begin with. Any meaning found is the meaning the viewer gives it.
Pfftt, nonsense. We all know the world ends in hot dogs
Wait, there is an altered carbon season 3? That would be so nice, I remember reading the books years ago…
Heh, shots fired. I’m torn between being a spouse who *constantly* has to explain the same thing we both just saw and being a parent who just doesn’t have the time to go back and rewatch/reread/replay to re-familiarize myself with the context of a payoff to a setup from 3+ Seasons/books/games ago if I’d forgotten it. I think the only valuable insight I can contribute is that some of the rise in those types of articles/videos is spawned by how long writers/networks/studios can drag their feet. 2+ year breaks between seasons because you didn’t plan for getting this far? Extended… Read more »
I’m not sure I get the last panel. I think I’ll go search for CAD comic ending explained.
I half expected an “ending of Half-Life 2.98473 explained” in that list.
Uh, just a quick heads up, Tim. When I got to the site today and I clicked the comics tab I got a pop up that the prevented me from clicking anything on the page. Hasn’t happened to me before and I just thought I’d let you know.
I dont under stand the ending of this panel. Can anybody link a good lengthy explanation video?
Yahoo’s stuffed full of those stupid articles. Thanks for agreeing that they’re a waste of web space…
I think part of these videos popularity is being able to experience social interaction regarding a favored media. Most people get the endings to things. I think partially their popularity comes from the validation of an understanding, and to experience the media over again through the lense of another’s experience of that same media.
Ending explained videos and articles don’t really bother me, what I find annoying is “# of things you missed” videos and articles, they’re all over the place and never tell me anything I actually missed or anything particularly interesting.
I seriously hate these type of YouTube videos and every single one that pops up on my recommendation list gets the not interest.
Thus is the fate of civilization doomed to wait, and Only wait, for Half Life 3.
From https://tinyurl.com/yazdbbwu to now. What a long ride. Love the strip just wanted to pop in.
My birthday!