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WCDT: 6-10 Dec 2010 (1811-1815)
shiroihikari:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 09 Dec 2010, 16:43 ---
Another person complained about people not treating Sven as a real human being.
I know what you both meant, and so does everyone else, but when you step back a few paces and look at it it's kind of funny.
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That was me, and by God, you're right. Talking about fictional characters as if they're real. Heh.
Now I am going to go try to figure out how, when, and where my life went wrong.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: The Duke on 09 Dec 2010, 16:36 ---overanalyzation is the whole point of the WCDT. Go crazy, guys.
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Up to a point. And hold the crazy...
akronnick:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Dec 2010, 16:55 ---Up to a point. And hold the crazy...
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You poor bastard, what have you gotten yourself into?
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 09 Dec 2010, 16:43 ---
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 09 Dec 2010, 12:00 ---I give Sven credit for this and all the other demonstrations of being a real person lately
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Another person complained about people not treating Sven as a real human being.
I know what you both meant, and so does everyone else, but when you step back a few paces and look at it it's kind of funny.
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To be perfectly honest, what I meant was "Please don't flame me, bro*, for waxing critical about this character you've got the warm and fuzzies about." All the QC cast are about as 'real' to me as Beowulf, Ayla, Willy Loman, Hamlet, The Batman, Congorilla, The Misfit, and Quentin Compson. I'm in the habit of talking about those pieces of feverish imagination as if they were real, too. Of course, if you buy into Heinlein's 'Number of the Beast,' I suppose they are, someT, someTau, someTeh. As the song goes:
someTeh out there
Along the far someTau
Someone's reading of me
In a bad novel
And if I could get at the novelist, I'd give her such a kickin'!
(Okay, maybe Congorilla's not so real. I mean, there are limits, aren't there?)
*No, I don't mean Tergon
Carl-E:
I think I've just realized something.
The *squick* level Jeph feels about this forum... it comes from one very simple place.
Here we are, analysing his characters like crazy, sometimes with insight, sometimes with hindsight, sometimes with no sight at all. Hey, they're just characters, right? Not even real!
Except they are real. I had the feeling Marten was a surrogate for Jeph himself when I first started the comic, but I think to a certain extent, all his characters are. Hanners and her neroses, Faye's violent tendencies, Dora's insecurities, Marten's aimlessness - all are facets of Jeph's own character. Some of them he's overcome, some still plague him, but regardless, how would you feel watching people pick apart the bits of your soul that you bare in the name of art?
Must drive the poor guy nuts. No wonder he hates visiting in here.
Mind you, I'm not gonna stop trying to put together all the little puzzle pieces of his characters. But I think I understand where he's coming from a little better.
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