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WCDT 30 August- 3 September 2010
Dliessmgg:
People have different opinions in different moods.
terriblecabbage:
Suddenly http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=739 doesn't seem so funny anymore.
Blackjoker:
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--- Quote from: jeph on 31 Aug 2010, 00:21 ---I WILL say this: Dora is definitely being an irrational twat.
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Then why is Marten still with her?
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Because he has the brain and balls to actually try to make a relationship work? This isn't fairytale-verse, there are are arguments. People do irrational dumb shit occasionally. Dora is officially being a bitch right now, but most of the time she isn't and they have a good relationship. If you are even slightly serious about a person - and Marten has said time and again that he loves her - then you DO NOT go straight for a breakup every time the relationship hits a pothole.
Relationships don't just trundle along and turn out perfectly by default. They involve effort and work, sometimes hard work. You have to concede to each other's quirks and flaws, sidestep the areas where you don't match and nurture the areas where you do. There are going to be fights, and some of them will be blistering rows until both of you have learned how to avoid them. In a relatively young relationship, neither side will have really learned how to stop themselves from being irrational cockbuckets, nor how to safely disarm the opposite number when they are.
Marten gets a really raw deal from the fans really. In the past he's done the sensible, mature thing and let it slide off, then picked things up and moved on. And for that he gets called a "pussy" and "spineless" by people who clearly don't understand real relationships.
Maybe this one will turn out to be particularly bad. Maybe it'll turn out that one or both of them get off the defensive and call Dora on her bullshit. We don't know, but we're going to find out in about 20 hours or so
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I agree with you for the most part. While I do like Dora as a character and do agree that this is a more realistic portrayal of people I can also see why some people would have a...negative reaction. Big reason might just be that most of the time Marten seems kind of like he has the losing end of things. Dora freaks out on him when he doesn't mention getting hit on at work, and does it in such a way that it feels like she tried to trap him. She goes berserk at Faye for sleeping with Sven and when Marten points out why he doesn't feel as betrayed and that her view on it might be wrong she goes off on him. Not to mention some of the stuff between Tai and Dora, it's not serious but it does seem like it makes Marten feel a little uncomfortable but even in those cases he doesn't really say anything presumably because he trusts Dora. It might also be worth noting that Dora tends to be fairly stable and calm but when she goes into hell bitch mode, she really goes into it. Thus it's a lot more memorable and it can seem contextually to be a lot worse than it was.
Though I will make a side comment that it might be funny for Pintsize to yell at Dora or something similar, either out of some level of care for Marten or as a way for him to add in a vaguely pornographic or scatalogical comment at the end of an otherwise coherent and articulate commentary on what's occurred.
disaacs:
I understand where Dora's reaction is coming from (she's insecure, she's tired and she's been in a bad mood for a couple comics now) but that doesn't mean she is right. If fact, she's so wrong that Marten needs to give her a good yelling at.
Is this the first QC without a punchline since #504?
akronnick:
At least this is happening on Tuesday, usually stuff this intense happens at the end of the week, the week before Comic-con, and we have to wait through a whole week of guest strips.
That might mean the OhNoesHellaDramas is just beginning.
Hold on to your buttsLols folks, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
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