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WCT (Weekly Comic Thread) May 31-June 4, 2010 (1676-1680)

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Wiregeek:

--- Quote from: TAG on 01 Jun 2010, 11:28 ---Eh, I could tolerate laziness (although it took/takes a lot of effort to raid :P) and I can at least understand some levels of awkwardness (Marigold takes this to a caricature-like extreme though), its the selfishness that annoys me, which is why today's strip sorta killed the character for me.
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Ha. I live with a girl who could be considered a 'goth Marigold'. She claims that she earns her keep 'doing housework'..   not so you'd notice, actually.  :-P


--- Quote ---I mean, forget about struggling to be an interesting or believable character.  That is someone I wouldn't want to associate with even if she was well adjusted.
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I'll agree with that.

laizeohbeets:
Marigold is an unpleasant character. I understand why some of my friends like her, but she's just not on the list of characters I'd want to hang out with.

I go to cons, right? She reminds me a lot of those ~*~wounded souls~*~ who make a big to-do about how they were teased in middle school and that at conventions, they can finally be who they want to be. And then they complain at the con that no one else is paying them attention because they're not fun people to be around. Nevermind that a vast majority of us other congoers were teased in middle school for being super geeky, too.

semi1o1:

--- Quote from: vettechinohio on 30 May 2010, 21:54 ---Anyone else notice the crisscross detailing between her boobs is gone? I like the dress w.out it but I wonder if that was intentional or not.

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I did, but luckily the crisscross on her boobs is back. I think it really makes the dress. Its looks just too plain without it.

Moxie:
Heh, I read today's comic and was like, 'Huh. Marigold is not really a nice person,' and decided to check out the forums to see if such a thought was worth posting or if I would get blasted out by Marigold-lovers. I'm really glad to see that's not the case!

I think overall I've generally been sort of meh about Marigold. She, and her story lines, never struck me as too particularly gripping, but this current one really ticks me off. I agree with both TAG and Tuitsuro - there seems to be a combination of selfishness and laziness to Marigold that really makes me dislike her. That's not to say that one day I might like her, but she needs to have a huge shift in her attitude and realize that to live life, one must actually go out and live it. I understand social-ineptness, but there definitely seems more to it (the selfishness and laziness that have been mentioned).


--- Quote from: TAG ---In fact, despite hitting basically the social network jackpot, she hasn't done much for anyone but herself.
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Incidentally, Marigold stated in the comic that what she wanted was for someone to be nice and pay attention to her. She apparently hasn't made the connection that if she wants that, she should also be nice and pay attention. (And that paying attention part also means listening and acting accordingly when someone says they're not interested.) Until Marigold can learn to behave the way she wants someone to behave around her, it's gonna be a while before she gets that.


--- Quote from: Tuitsuro ---Angus is not totally blameless in that, he's been treating her with kid gloves for as long as they've been together because he thinks she's fragile
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Both Dora and Faye treat her as fragile too, at least in regards to Sven. It's like they've all decided Marigold simply can't handle things in life, and so they all have to just take care of her (enabling her laziness?) To be fair, she was totally over her head, apparently, with Sven, but if someone swoops in to save her, she'll never learn (and never have to learn) to fend for herself with social relationships.


--- Quote from: TAG ---In her "relationship" with Angus, it was all about Marigold.  She never once considered Angus' feelings.  That may be acceptable as just relationship awkwardness originally, but now he's made it quite clear and has taken great pains to let her down easy, but she is still pursuing.
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Couple things here - generally speaking, guys who continue to pursue relationships with girls even after being told the girl was not interested are often treated with disdain. I see no reason why Marigold shouldn't be viewed in the same light. Also, have people here heard of the "Nice Guy" - the one who does all he can to be a friend with a girl and then is upset when the girl won't date him/put out for him? Seems to me that Marigold is treading a line here on being a "Nice Girl", I guess. Without considering how Angus may be feeling about what she's asking him, she keeps pushing it, despite already being told he wasn't into that.



--- Quote from: TAG ---I mean, forget about struggling to be an interesting or believable character.  That is someone I wouldn't want to associate with even if she was well adjusted.
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I agree with you, 100%.

Is it cold in here?:
We can safely draw a distinction between "being teased" and having bloody frog parts stuffed down your shirt.

TAG, Marigold did lend Hanners her anime and did invite her over for a movie, even if it took Momo's translator unit to figure out that it was an invitation. You're still winning the argument.

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