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Will Wil and Penelope's relationship last?
Zingoleb:
--- Quote from: djcuddlefish on 08 Jul 2009, 02:54 ---OH... I am... ready for this to be a 'too early for anti-Wil' pragmatisms. but still... I think that penelope needs a stronger man than Wil. Wil makes me want to choke myself on my toothbrush. Wil makes me want to strangle myself with my bath-towel. Wil makes me want to accidentally slip on a bathmat and brain myself on my own fucking toilet. as a MAN... as a fucking MAN... Wil makes me want to beat myself into insensibility with the nearest hard or blunt object handy. I love the witing of QC and the characters that have come into play. but I have to speak myself out... speak out against Wil... Wil makes me want to die as a man. not only the little deaths. but all of the big deaths as well. maybe Wil represents a small faction of us... but maybe he represents the faction of your loyal readers that we just don't want to give any weight to. I know that we've all been there. I know that as a reader we've all, (as men) been that man right there. but Wil destroys my soul. I guess that is all that I have to say. I am anti-Wil.
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Glad to see that all men must conform to your standards before you accept them.
djcuddlefish:
--- Quote from: Zingoleb on 08 Jul 2009, 20:47 ---
--- Quote from: djcuddlefish on 08 Jul 2009, 02:54 ---OH... I am... ready for this to be a 'too early for anti-Wil' pragmatisms. but still... I think that penelope needs a stronger man than Wil. Wil makes me want to choke myself on my toothbrush. Wil makes me want to strangle myself with my bath-towel. Wil makes me want to accidentally slip on a bathmat and brain myself on my own fucking toilet. as a MAN... as a fucking MAN... Wil makes me want to beat myself into insensibility with the nearest hard or blunt object handy. I love the witing of QC and the characters that have come into play. but I have to speak myself out... speak out against Wil... Wil makes me want to die as a man. not only the little deaths. but all of the big deaths as well. maybe Wil represents a small faction of us... but maybe he represents the faction of your loyal readers that we just don't want to give any weight to. I know that we've all been there. I know that as a reader we've all, (as men) been that man right there. but Wil destroys my soul. I guess that is all that I have to say. I am anti-Wil.
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Glad to see that all men must conform to your standards before you accept them.
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meh... being a man in the first place is a base standard to work with. Wil doesn't really fit the bill. to throw a reasonable comparison out there, Marten wasn't exactly the strongest of us all either. but he can still support himself as he needs to while still persuing avenues for his creativity (the band and his music blog) and can stand up for himself without mewling and sniveling and begging people not to leave him. which is fine really. if the character needs to be there for the storyliine than the character needs to be there. that's up to Jeph. doesn't mean I have to like the character at all. basically the character of Wil consistently makes me gag. which could well be the entire point.
Is it cold in here?:
If Wil isn't a man, what is he?
"Boy" is a supportable answer. He's not meeting the mainstream culture's definition of adult responsibility, which includes self-support.
I don't know whether I'd go for that interpretation, but he wouldn't be the only character who has some childlike characteristics.
Zingoleb:
Name one character that doesn't show childlike qualities. Just one.
Is it cold in here?:
Jeph said once that none of them could be considered mature, but Veronica Reed seems pretty together.
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