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Marten's fundamental character

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raoullefere:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Dec 2010, 02:07 ---I think I follow you but I'm not sure.

"The One syndrome" is different from monogamy in that it can happen even when there's no relationship? Or it's premature overcommitment?

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It's more akin to tunnel-vision, but I suppose premature overcommitment comes close. The reason I don't like the term overcommitment is that to me it implies a level of fixation that's not there. Marten doesn't live, eat sleep and breathe each woman so much as he simply doesn't seriously consider others as possibilities. It's as though he won't allow himself to really 'see' them—to fully explore the idea of he and this girl as an item, if you will. He's involved with (on whatever level) who he's involved with, and that's that.

Note that Marten may well have been 'prematurely over-committed' to the girl (I can never recall her name) he followed East. That might explain why she dodn't want to continue the relationship in the first place. But he wasn't so with Faye—for example, Marten toyed with the idea of dating Sara early on, but never seriously considered it.

Yes, Carl, need to find that strip. I may look later, but my kettle's whistling.

jwhouk:
Raoullefere, your posts astound me for the sheer volume of footnotes.  :laugh:

Marten has actually said in earlier strips when questioned about his relationship with Faye that he can't focus on more than one love interest at a time. That was how the whole Dora thing "blindsided" him at the time of her kiss on the rooftop.

EDIT: You're thinking of Vicky. She of the milk-stained sweater.

And AWESOME summary, Kaz.

raoullefere:
jwhouk, it's how I think. Two other thoughts are always crowding me while I wrestle with one. My brain runs both very quickly and horribly slowly at the same time, and often in too many directions. This plays merry hell with my own writing.

Can't find the comic Carl was talking about, but I did find this. I'm almost certain, just because of the length of that thread that someone brought this up in that massive Weekly when Dora dumped Marten, but I didn't see it*. Anyway, I guess Marten's batting a thousand.

I said a year or so back (maybe more) that Jeph is a helluva foreshadower. And got ridiculed for my pains. Suck it, my critics! (I think he knows what he's going to do before he does, if that makes any sense).

I also found this, where Marten expounds on his personal relationship theory. Oppose that to Sven, who never makes it out of the shrubbery, at least until recently.

*I got deathly ill—flu and a sinus infection—and stopped following it. By the time I got well enough to care about QC, much less the forums, reading it would've been like eating homemade pancakes that've been in the fridge for four days—slightly gelatinous and not worth the calories.

Is it cold in here?:
Carl-E, are you thinking of the strip where Marten says he doesn't fantasize about any of the female cast members, until Dora asks about Raven?

Carl-E:
That's probably it... for some reason I thought he was talking to Tai in the Library, probably why I couldn't find it. 

Still can't, writing another exam...

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