Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT March 8-12 2010
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 11 Mar 2010, 02:09 ---Faye set the confrontation up.
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...I think I'm painting her as too much of a Machiavelli. At least I hope so. There's not much worse than someone who enjoys setting up conflicts, then standing on the sidelines and watch the fur fly. But hopefully Faye was trying to engage Marigold in Faye's idea of a 'group' activity.
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I really think you were. This was more of a chance encounter - Faye was just trying to entertain Marigold with something she could relate to, and Dora reacted poorly, and then apologized.
Just more character insights, people! Quit reading grand motives into everyday occurances, OK? Save that for Penny&Aggie...
Wiregeek:
wtf, dora.
someone needs to unscrew her head and shake the bullshit out of her thinking hole.
westrim:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 11 Mar 2010, 00:44 ---
--- Quote from: westrim on 10 Mar 2010, 23:54 ---She shows an incredibly nasty, vindictive, jealous personality that is clearly under how she usually appears- but a strip or 5 later it's all hunky-dory again.
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Those outbursts don't reflect her personality. Consider how a fundamentally nasty, vindictive, jealous person would have treated Faye. It wouldn't have involved employing her, sponsoring a sculpture to improve her mental health, or pushing her to get to the gym.
I respect Dora for having the insight to realize in hindsight that she was letting her insecurities run her, and for trying to make amends.
(Substitute for "respect" whatever word is appropriate to use for people who don't exist).
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That's why it's 'underlying'. She suppresses it mightily since she'd rather be nice (not three strips ago she was helping Marigold out of her shell), but occasionally her default personality kicks to the surface. And I wouldn't call them outbursts- she had a good while to think about how to ask Marten about the girl that asked him out, then did so in pretty much the worst way possible. Premeditated ambush, there.
--- Quote from: akronnick on 11 Mar 2010, 02:04 ---Given the pace at which this comic progresses, the pregnancy itself would take the next 18 years!
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Snrkt! :lol:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 11 Mar 2010, 02:09 ---Faye set the confrontation up. Marigold would never have gone to the website, or, if she happened upon it by accident, have likely kept her mouth shut if Faye hadn't been asking her opinion. I suppose I should have said "responding to Faye's tactic of needling Dora by using Marigold."
I have to go with Is it cold. I've known quite a few insecure people, and most of them don't let things go or, god forbid, admit they were wrong, and that's basically what Dora's doing in panel 2. Dora has these switches that bring out that behavior, but it's not the core person she is—it's more like a suit of armor she put on a long time ago (Thanks, Sven, and Bianchi Mom and Dad!) and can't get out of. She said something about needing therapy and probably does. But I balance that with these behaviors. She tries to help out when she can, she doesn't hold grudges, she defends her friends, and, best of all, she's not addicted to the "I told you so" that it would have been so very easy to use on Faye after the Sven affair blew up; when better to be vindictive? I don't think Dora's a saint by any means, but she is a nice person.
On the other hand, Faye knows how Dora reacts and has to have some idea of what her triggers are, and I think it's driving her a little squirrelly not to be able to tear into Marigold the way she does everyone else. But again, I think I'm painting her as too much of a Machiavelli. At least I hope so. There's not much worse than someone who enjoys setting up conflicts, then standing on the sidelines and watch the fur fly. But hopefully Faye was trying to engage Marigold in Faye's idea of a 'group' activity.
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So you think Faye is a Machiavellian asshole, other people think Angus is- I forget the line on Angus, but they don't like him, and I'm sure that someone doesn't like Marten or Hannelore or some other character. Okay. I guess for me the character that doesn't work is Dora.
Muirghiel:
I think you lot are over-analyzing. Faye makes fun of stuff. It's how she keeps her sheilds up without risking a lawsuit for battery and assault. That and a quaint 2001 website is enough to many anyone giggle these days.
Dora, however, didn't make the snarky comment she usually does. And she's being awful cuddly. Which means she's either PMSing or...
No. No. Surely you haven't, Jeph! Are you trying to tell us sometihng? Could your creative genius really throw us for a loop this big?
I'll be watching Dora's breasts to see if they get any bigger, and her hips to see if they get rounder. And her belleh, to see if anything starts trying to claw its way out.
Tuitsuro:
--- Quote from: Muirghiel on 11 Mar 2010, 10:59 ---I think you lot are over-analyzing.
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--- Quote from: Muirghiel on 11 Mar 2010, 10:59 ---No. No. Surely you haven't, Jeph! Are you trying to tell us sometihng? Could your creative genius really throw us for a loop this big?
I'll be watching Dora's breasts to see if they get any bigger, and her hips to see if they get rounder. And her belleh, to see if anything starts trying to claw its way out.
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