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WCDT 15-19 November 2010 (1796-1800)
fifthfiend:
--- Quote from: jeph on 15 Nov 2010, 00:20 ---how do I block this thread from my computers for the next week
or forever
:psyduck:
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By writing better.
AngelofShadows:
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 15 Nov 2010, 00:15 ---
--- Quote from: snubnose on 14 Nov 2010, 23:58 ---Except you're wrong, it was no test.
He told her he didnt want to, and she openly went for it, so it raised his fears and he had to check.
At no point did he want to test Dora.
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Well, telling me I'm wrong is one of the great tactics of debate, I suppose, but I'll respectfully disagree. I specifically disagree with your characterization of Martin's actions, there is no 'raising of fears' because he knew precisely what was going to happen as soon as she left after that discussion. By following her, he clearly was expecting to catch her in the act. What other possibility would you suggest?
When I say he was testing her, I will point out that he could have avoided all of this by saying it was perfectly vanilla, which it is, and which would have resulted in Dora ceasing to ask questions. Just before this, he was willing to talk about intensely personal, highly sexual subjects with no hangups whatsoever. Blithely dodging the question would have been perfectly fitting with everything we've seen of Martin's character- it's this latest business that is the aberration, and thus I suspect that it is artificial on Martin's part. I will not claim this process is necessarily conscious, though.
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If someone ran off and said they were going to do something that I told them I would rather they not do, and then catch them doing the thing they said they did isn't a test. And considering what his mom did, I doubt Marten was ever all that comfortable about discussing his porn options with anyone out of the chance that the name Veronica Vance gets thrown out in the conversation.
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: fifthfiend on 15 Nov 2010, 00:22 ---By writing better.
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I hope that was a joke.
Jeph's characters are amongst the most realistically depicted "cartoons" I've seen- they're imperfect, non-caricatured, non-stereotyped, and they behave in character- which means that if they would piss someone off in said real life, that's what ends up happening- on the forum. Fiction is full of one-dimensional, poorly written cliche-people. These characters are not.
Shadic:
--- Quote from: fifthfiend on 15 Nov 2010, 00:22 ---
--- Quote from: jeph on 15 Nov 2010, 00:20 ---how do I block this thread from my computers for the next week
or forever :psyduck:
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By writing better.
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I'd argue that having characters debated means that he's doing his job well. If everybody had the same interpretations of each character, things would just be boring.
Mojo:
I can only imagine that they have awesome makeup sex considering how hard Dora works at screwing things up like this.
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