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Foreshadowing of The Breakup

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JackFaerie:
Thankee, thankee. I'd be a true Mistress of the Archives if I could find the other instance of Marten lying awake in bed at night and sighing. I could swear there were three in total.

tomart:
Yes, good job, JackFaerie.  When you put it that way...

Much respect for Jeph, to have either laid the guidelines out early on (a la JKRowling) or masterfully composed it as he went along, or some combination thereof.  

The current apparently misguided Marten-Faye shipping is left over from the first 500 or so strips, where that sexual tension almost defined the main characters & thus the comic.  That's not so easily disposed of, for those of us who've loved QC from the beginning.  I suspect (ok, hope) that QC's closing arc, hopefully far down the road, might include the original "couple" getting together.  

I don't expect any shark-jumping;  I see QC as getting stronger as it goes, with Jeph's storytelling skillz, character depths, dramatic repertoire all improving as we've seen the art improve.  

Someday we'll look back on these drama-threads and laugh.   :lol:

jwhouk:
Problem is, most of these drama threads will die when the next OMG!!!! moment wanders around.

Irenfrea:
You could also throw in these:

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1066
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1067

Skewbrow:
JackFaerie's list is quite complete as fas as I can remember. I confess to having hoped that Dora and Marten would not break up all the way till Thursday's strip. Let's list a few factors that may have contributed to the expectation that Dora and Marten were for keeps. Mostly my personal reasons. You're more than welcome to comment/add or shoot them down. Perhaps not the most interesting exercise, but here comes anyway:

* Wishful thinking - a very powerful driver. I just hoped so hard that they could make it work :-(
* The frequency of their arguments/quarrels/fights did not seem that high. Overall it looked like they were doing just fine. However, to an extent the comic time dilation trapped me here. In RL it is close to 5 years since strip 564, but in QCtime the concensus seems to be that it's something like one year. Don't know if 6 incidents per year is too much, because...
* It is natural to expect a higher than usual 'drama to steady going ratio' in a work of fiction. So a bumpy ride is even more likely than in RL.Also a lot of the Faye/Marten shipping that took place really got on my nerves. I tried to dismiss it, because it sounded like a bunch of NiceGuysTM yelling: Marten was so nice to Faye for a longest time. He has 'earned' a relationship (or failing that at least some passionate sex) with her. I should have known better and just stayed away from the forum until the smoke cleared, but flesh was weak and consequently I defaulted to denial mode. Not to mention that when I started reading QC from the beginning I was myself hoping that Faye and Marten would end up together  :oops: So this is more like a cauldron calling kettle black.

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