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Foreshadowing of The Breakup
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: flamingo on 21 Nov 2010, 10:31 ---not exactly foreshadowing of the break up, but just to counter
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1466
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So is Marten still going out with the clockwork simulcra?
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 21 Nov 2010, 17:49 ---
--- Quote from: flamingo on 21 Nov 2010, 10:31 ---not exactly foreshadowing of the break up, but just to counter
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1466
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So is Marten still going out with the clockwork simulcra?
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No, that one is running CoD while the real Dora undergoes an emotional meltdown. Unsurpisingly, no one can tell the difference until the simulcra Dora stops... turns out that someone forgot to give the little hamster inside his bottle of water. I'm not saying who, just someone.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: someone1074 on 21 Nov 2010, 11:02 ---It's not so much that the breakup was unexpected, but that Marten would roll over again. Recently, he's demonstrated that he's willing to confront her directly. And then when things came to a head, he just (presumably, since we didn't see anything) silently accepted it and walked out.
I would have said Marten would have rolled over a few months ago when faced with a breakup from Dora without a problem...but after these recent developments? That's what's surprising.
Guess Marten hasn't grown at all throughout these years. Ah well.
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I'm not so sure he did just walk out after 1799. We don't see any more of that scene, but there's a lot in their lives we don't see. They may well have spoken some more, but really, after what Dora had just said to him, there wasn't any reassurance he'd be able to give, no rational arguments, no words of love that would have dissuaded her.
Don't know if he'd realize it so easily, though. It may have taken a repeat or two of her explanation, along with some very insistent "it's over, dammit"s to get her point across.
But this has nothing to do with foreshadowing! My daughter, who's followed the strip since I introduced her to it, said it was pretty obvious for a long time that they weren't going to be able to make it work. I guess I'm just a stereotypically oblivious male. Until you guys drug up these old scenes, I really thought they'd be able to work this out. Seeing them now, Dora's problems clearly run too deep.
Oh yeah, and I'm a hopeless romantic, too. That doesn't really help anything.
jwhouk:
Second Law of Sexual Dynamics at work, hey?
Skewbrow:
Possibly.
I first felt that GOM is my kind of group. But when Jeph blessed the rains (probably even before that) I realized that my grumpiness is only skin deep. If GOM has a subdivision for romantic old fools, then may be.
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