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This is the last comic at the [[:Category:Choices|Choices]] series.
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In the final part of [[:Category:Choices|Choices]], [[Megan]] is back to real life, and has forgotten about her trip, as afterlife-Megan said. However, she has an {{w|epiphany}}, and in the spirit of what she told her, she talks to the stranger at the street.
  
[[Megan]] is back to real life, not dreaming any more, even not remembering that dream...
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The title text suggests a weird sociological investigation. The capital "S" in "Science" suggests a {{w|personification}}.
 
 
BUT: She remembers the hints and talks to a stranger at the street. Asking him about flying kites, but the stranger [[Cueball]] does not understand. He never thought about this sport before.
 
 
 
The title text brings us just back to some wired science: How many people would fly on a kite with a stranger?
 
  
 
Final part of "[[:Category:Choices|Choices]]":
 
Final part of "[[:Category:Choices|Choices]]":

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Choices: Part 5
I wonder what percentage of not-obviously-busy people on the street would say yes to kite-flying with a stranger. This looks like a job for Science!
Title text: I wonder what percentage of not-obviously-busy people on the street would say yes to kite-flying with a stranger. This looks like a job for Science!

Explanation

In the final part of Choices, Megan is back to real life, and has forgotten about her trip, as afterlife-Megan said. However, she has an epiphany, and in the spirit of what she told her, she talks to the stranger at the street.

The title text suggests a weird sociological investigation. The capital "S" in "Science" suggests a personification.

Final part of "Choices":

Transcript

[Megan is walking towards the right of the panel.]
[Cueball wearing a backpack is walking towards the left of the panel.]
[They walk past each other.]
[Megan has a sudden thought.]
[Megan turns back and says.]
Megan: Hi.
Cueball: Uh, hi.
Megan: Sorry if this is weird, but
Megan: Do you like flying kites?
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Discussion

I think it's related to 235: Kite. There is kite, Megan, Cueball - but they didn't say "hi". 108.162.231.55 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I'd agree here. It's nice to have pleasant realisations. Ribbit it's Toad! (talk) 05:44, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this should be taken as something that happens in direct chronological relation with the previous "Megan travels to another universe" series; it's not apparently related. I see no reason to treat these cartoons as if they follow any particular order or time frame, except when it's obvious. In fact, until I came here and started reading the explanations, I never even thought of them as particular "characters" with names, just representations of certain types of people. It wasn't long, but I hadn't even associated Black Hat with being an "asshole" in particular. I thought it was just a way of giving the series some texture. In any case, he's the only one that shows a real definite set to his personality, and he could be representative of a certain type of person. The others are less so, but I don't think they should be viewed as sequential characters in a storyline; they're more like people in The Far Side, where they usually look very much alike, but there is no actual relation between the people shown in on frame and the next. Not to say giving them names doesn't make explaining easier, but I wouldn't take it any further than that. Personally, anyway. Unless Randall specifically said they were intended to be specific characters at some point... 108.162.218.118 06:19, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Um, you've seen the strip title? It's labeled as part of the series, if it wasn't enough to be directly after and contain an identical character doing something in line with the previous strip's suggestions. 141.101.98.40 17:20, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Not only that, but she's doing exactly what she told herself to do: Talking to a random person about a random thing. — Kazvorpal (talk) 19:23, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Could the Cueball dude with the backpack possibly be the same as the one doing math from Choices part 2? 162.158.123.115 21:24, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Good catch! I think he is! Do you want to add to the explanation yourself? (P.S.: It is common/best practice to add any new discussion points at the bottom of the page. I have moved this to the bottom.) --Lupo (talk) 06:21, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

I think the capital 'S' in science doesn't necessarily suggest personification, just like capitalizing "Truth" doesn't.