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WDCT 10-14 January 2011 (1836-1840)

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Olymander:
I have to agree with those others in that the actions of Mrs. Reed don't really bother me all that significantly.  Maybe it's because, as I think I mentioned somewhere or another, that I've seen this sort of behaviour before.  In real life.  So for me, it's "funny" in the sense that it often ends up being an "Oh God, remember that time when?" sort of thing.

As a random semi-related aside, and sparked by a memory of the person I was mostly responding to last week, I wonder if there's an age split in those that favor Mrs. Reed and those that don't, as in that there are more younger persons that don't favor Mrs. Reed and more older persons that do.  Doesn't really mean anything, just a curiosity bit.  And, of course, at that point we'd have to define how much older is "older" and how much younger is "younger".  :-P

Oh, and Dr. ROFLPWN?  You can have your loafers.  I'll just find a nice heavy pair of steel-toed boots... (added humour value in that I weigh somewhere in the neighbourhood of a buck-five, so said boots will probably add 5 pounds to my weight!)

Delator:

--- Quote from: Cybit on 12 Jan 2011, 08:19 ---Alternatively, Veronica just believes Faye about the entire "I don't have feelings for Marten that way" bit, and just dropped that line in as kind of a re-affirmation of "you made the right decision for the two of you", unaware that Faye probably isn't 100% sure about it.
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A lot of what you say makes sense, but think about it another way.

Faye did have feelings for Marten. She said as much.

Now Marten's mom says they never would have worked out...in spite of those feelings.

Now Faye's going to be worried that her feelings for Angus are masking the same sort of incompatibility.


*cue drama*


...I also have a new Theory Which Shall Not Be Named.


Don't fail me now Jeph.  :lol:

iduguphergrave:

--- Quote from: Delator on 12 Jan 2011, 09:16 ---Now Faye's going to be worried that her feelings for Angus are masking the same sort of incompatibility.

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Not only that, but Faye could interpret Veronica's meaning to be that she's the reason they wouldn't have worked out. I'm not saying that is what Veronica meant; it most likely isn't, but Faye's got much bigger self-confidence issues than she lets on and I can see her taking "You'd have been a terrible couple" to really mean "You would have been terrible for Marten. He really dodged a bullet there." Hence Faye's stricken look in the last panel.

It would have been ok for Veronica to state that particular opinion to Marten, but saying it to Faye was just a tad out of line (or she could have at least put it better). Then again she was already on a roll with the out-of-line-train already so why stop now?

Black Sword:
I believe this would be known as "ship sinking" on TV Tropes. Hey, it's even linked already!

Kugai:
Ahhh,

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