Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 6-10 Dec 2010 (1811-1815)
shiroihikari:
I will risk getting burned at the proverbial stake in order to ask a simple question: am I the only one getting impatient with the pacing lately? I want to know what happens but at this rate we're not going to find out for another two weeks. I'm not trying to be a dick, it's just that the suspense is killing me over here.
iduguphergrave:
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 06 Dec 2010, 16:00 ---How much experience do you actually have with controlling people? Because really, you're comparing her to an extreme stereotype. By your reasoning, if a person doesn't have dismembered animals hanging about the place, they couldn't possibly be a serial killer, because they're missing the obvious signs.
Again, Veronica is not necessarily controlling, but the reasons you have for saying she's not are badly reasoned out..
--- Quote ---Even the conversation she has with Faye is telling of her personality. She says, "my son is a grown man and can make his own decisions." Not something a controlling mother would say.
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Of course a controlling mother would say that. But the subtext would be different. It's like when many women answer the question 'what's wrong?' with 'nothing'. Just because many people would legitimately mean that nothing's wrong, there are clearly other people who mean the opposite of what is said, and this situation is precisely like that.
--- Quote ---The threat against Faye doesn't even come until after she's spoken reasonably. She talks like a rational human being before letting the protective mother take over.
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Controlling and irrational are not only not the same, they're often opposites.
I don't mean to bark and snap and all, but your 'just-so' thinking doesn't have anything to do with how things actually can be, and I think that while you might be right in the overall picture, you're not getting there through sound means. You're accepting as a premise that controlling means hostility, irrationality, and a bunch of other things, and the premise is what's wrong.
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How is my opinion badly reasoned out? I'm providing actual evidence that's in the comic, and I think you're the one who's seeing it the wrong way. Would you please tell me, so we don't keep repeating ourselves, exactly what about Veronica's behavior is saying "controlling mother" to you?
akronnick:
--- Quote from: shiroihikari on 06 Dec 2010, 19:01 ---I will risk getting burned at the proverbial stake in order to ask a simple question: am I the only one getting impatient with the pacing lately? I want to know what happens but at this rate we're not going to find out for another two weeks. I'm not trying to be a dick, it's just that the suspense is killing me over here.
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Such is life for the webcomic fan.
Slow pace has always been a feature of QC.
It's just the nature of the beast.
raoullefere:
I agree we don't have any evidence for or against Veronica being a controlling mother. Her professional gig tells us nothing, since she is, for all intents, acting out a role. Like many actors who are gifted at playing assholes and yet extremely nice IRL or the opposite (Andy Griffith, by repute, comes to mind for the latter), one can't make any good judgments based on that. However, I do recall Marten being horrified at the behavior of Hannelore's mother, who is a controller, and I don't recall him ever commiserating with Hanners about it. Not much, but something to chew on while Jeph treats us to seven days of YB and Rippy trashing Lady Gaga songs. You know, just to show us.
jeph:
Marten's mom is going to sleep with Dora. You heard it here first.
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