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WCDT - 6-10 September 2010 (1746-1750)
Carl-E:
Marten couldn't provide Sven with Cliff's Notes on Faye, aside from the reasons already mentioned. He was still going through the Big Book of Faye himself!
So this is what makes Jeph's writing so damn good - even when a character is introduced as a stereotype, we find out there's so much more to them - just like real peeplz!
Sven was introduced as a womanizer. He acknowledged as much. Makes an arrangement with Faye ("Fine with me!" shows up somewhere in Raoullefere's linked pages), but when it all blows to hell (as he knew it would), we get the one word frame... "awesome". There was a lot of shock and sorrow in that one word, with the most forlorn look Sven ever had. There's even more insight in the Kim Jong Il sledding incident. He knows he fucked up, he developed feelings, and can't cope.
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Sven doesn't need to blame Marten, he's dealing with it. Angus really did get a Cliff's Notes version of the BBoF, and it seemed to help some. That and, as Angus developed from "argument guy", he turned out to be a decent person, unlike the way Sven was developing.
I read this as a turnabout joke. That's all. Sven shouldn't have had to warn Marten about anything, Dora should've talked to him herself at some point. Like, a while ago. But she's a little too self-sabatoging to do so, and now it's blowing up. Sven's not close enough to them to notice it until now, or maybe he would have warned Marten, the way Marten warned Angus - vague, but helpful.
Anyway, time for more growth!
And JackFaerie, good to hear from you again. We need more insightful reminders, the past slips away too easily!
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 06 Sep 2010, 06:19 ---The idea of Cliffs Notes on girls to help boys "manage" them, or just manage to bang them, is just the tiniest bit offensive to my feminist side.
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I don't think management is the idea so much as not failing the test. That's what Cliff's notes are for, yes*? It's also what Sven did, and I'm fairly sure he knows it. Carl is right; that was quite a forlorn look.
*Unless you're a mindless prat who doesn't think your teacher has also read the Cliff's notes and anticipated that you may have failed to read the original text while he's wiring his exam. I'm fine with them as a guide, but not as a substitute, or would be, if I had anything to do with teaching lit, which I don't.
At least not after I made that person eat his, er, anymore.
themacnut:
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 06 Sep 2010, 06:19 ---The idea of Cliffs Notes on girls to help boys "manage" them, or just manage to bang them, is just the tiniest bit offensive to my feminist side.
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You'd rather guys just blunder along absolutely clueless, as many guys do, and end up alone? I'm not even talking about getting girls in bed, I'm talking about guys who can't even carry a conversation with a girl, especially one they're attracted to. Or they say the wrong things and run the girl off. "Being yourself" doesn't work if yourself gets ignored by the opposite sex or is found repulsive by them. Such guys need some kind of help, right?
Graphite:
That's not really what the comic's talking about at all though. This is a 'cheat sheet' to a specific individual.
Guys who can't carry a conversation with a girl could certainly use some guidance, preferably the sort that begins with, "First, join a social group with both guys and girls in it..."
snubnose:
Where the *** did Sven get any of this information ?!?!?!?!?!?!? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???
IMHO he's totally out of character.
P.s.: Ok, he's totally out of my idea of his character. Uh.
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