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WCDT 30 August- 3 September 2010
tomart:
--- Quote from: no one special on 03 Sep 2010, 01:08 ---When we experience the epicness - something... changes... in our brains,... We are never the same, and those moments are seared into our minds forever.
If the QC forum learns anything about the male gender this day, let it be this:
Men NEVER get over epic titties. We just... learn to live without.
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Solemnly, Sincerely, Seconded, My Brothah . . .
Amen.
tomart:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 03 Sep 2010, 00:19 ---Of all the creeps, in all the streets, in all the town, Marten runs across this one. The Makeout Hobo could give better advice.
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Oh, come on, .... The Makeout Hobo is the total Creepasaur, his "Advice" self-serving claptrap.
Au contraire, this was another Golden QC Moment! "Serious [Drama] Serious [Character Development] Serious - Boob Joke!"
(Each panel driving up the Serious Itching to see who Marten is spilling his guts to!) Tension release by Sven and Jeph, I'm guessing, with (hopefully) more serious Sven-sharing soon.
Like others, I'm hoping this arc brings us Dora & Sven backstory, maybe like The Talk (though that'd be hard, & unnecessary, to beat.) I've rather liked Dora over these past few years, and feel she's acting out & getting a bad rap right now. Lots of times, she's been the wiser, more mature core character. I 'spect some selected looks back at her & her bro's past might well redeem her, and (by sometime in 2011, RT) she and Marten could be on a more solid foundation.
numbvox:
--- Quote from: IanClark on 03 Sep 2010, 12:01 ---
--- Quote from: Heliphyneau on 03 Sep 2010, 10:46 ---Oh, and Tergon, one of your Useless Brooms Made Entirely of Dicks must have washed out to sea, but some fishermen found it for you:
http://io9.com/5629024/look-+-its-a-baby-mi+go-caught-by-divers-off-the-coast-of-japan
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I give it three days before someone draws the porn, then five days until it ends up on the Pintsize Twitter account.
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...omg what the fuck did I see in that link!?
jwhouk:
Seriously, though: There has GOT to be more to the Bianchi clan's family dynamics than either Dora or Sven is letting on.
Mom and Dad don't exactly sound like they were around much, and when they were it doesn't sound like they were much for parenting. Kids of parents who were sixties hippies were already around back when I was in HS - Sven strikes me as a "Ferris Bueller" type. Of course, John Hughes never had a character like Dora (though he may have come close to it with Ally Sheedy's character in Breakfast Club).
Let's see if we can tick off what the dynamics were (this is from 1107):
* Everything's always about HIM. Every other girl at school had a crush on him. Sven apparently took after dad. Not as a philanderer, but just self-assured. And he was decent looking enough that girls flocked to him. (I've never actually seen types like this IRL, so I have no idea if this is the case.)
* Half my friends were just pretending they liked me so they could sneak up to his room and make out. That could lead to HUGE trust issues on the part of Dora - especially if she didn't know which half it was.
* He was Mr. Popular and I was just his weird little sister who had bad skin and wore too much black. Some of the "too much black" may have been her reaction/rebellion over his popularity -and her "angst" over not having "normal" parental figures around.
* He doesn't even have to TRY! He cruised through HS and college, never studied and still got perfect grades. Meantime I'm busting my ass to make C's and D's. This one I'm not too sure I believe. In retrospect, I didn't really try all that hard in college and got good (not perfect) grades. Sven might have found his coursework "beneath him" (get the feeling he was a history major or something?). I'd love to know what Dora's major was in (if, in fact, she managed to finish school). I'm betting it was econ or business administration or something.
* Then after school, he writes completely stupid f'ing songs and paychecks come rolling in. I can barely afford a living wage. Okay, this is just projection on Dora's part. Yes, Sven didn't have to try hard at writing songs. Yes, country music (actually, when you think about it, all popular music) is pretty easy to write. (As an aside, the one thing that's always bothered me about Sven is that he doesn't live in Nashville. But I can understand his reluctance to live there, since he'd probably have issues just walking out to the coffee shop in West End. You know, Vandy co-eds.) Dora's doing a kick-ass job at being her own boss and owning her own (pretty dang profitable) business. Success, as they say, is relative.
Bottom line is, I honestly think there's more to the Sven-Dora dynamic than she wants to admit - and more than Sven probably realizes.
Schmorgluck:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 03 Sep 2010, 18:06 ---Sven strikes me as a "Ferris Bueller" type.
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Wrong analogy. If I remember the movie right, Ferris comes to a loose undestanding with his sister, and she ultimately saves his ass. I've always found the dynamics at play between Ferris and his sister the most interesting part of the movie, anyway. The rest of the movie, and Ferris as a character, are quite "meh", IMHO.
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