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Ho boy. Time for ethnic-doppleganger Dora.
billydaking:
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--- Quote from: pwhodges on 17 Feb 2011, 03:17 ---Apart from the initial joke remark when Marten referred to an "alternate-universe Coffee of Doom" on account of the general sense of angst and disaster, there is no basis whatsoever for the characterisation of Padma and Renee as versions of Dora and Faye.
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You seem to have forgotten that after meeting Faye, Padma could not shut up about how Faye is exactly like Renee in looks and personality. Seems like a pretty explicit doppleganger to me. The only way to avert this copy/paste character introduction is for Jeph to make Padma explicitly different from Dora. Time will tell if that happens.
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And you seem to have forgotten the follow-up where Angus explained that Faye isn't just another Renee to him, even if they're the same "type." Which would seem to me the author telling its audience to get over the doppleganger thing, and a nice warning before Marten met Padma in the comic.
Carl-E:
Really, I find Padma to be quite different from Dora in appearance (aside from the skin color) Different eyes, facial structure, hair (of course). The only things they have in common really are that they're both shop owners and have a similar body type.
Let's see...
Differently shaped jaw, differently shaped eyes, different nose (I like a strong nose, myself)...
So what's all this doppleganger nonsense?
Black Sword:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 17 Feb 2011, 08:13 ---
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We're all posting in a forum. Most of us are geeks or nerds who have seen Star Wars. Padme is how many of the posters would be conditioned to spell it, especially after Natalie Portman's relatively strong performance and beauty... although if you want to get picky, Padmé is the correct spelling. (numberpad power!)
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Relatively strong compared to Mr. Christiansen maybe, but still a lackluster performance in a group of movies that while technically well done, lacked the magic of the originals. Is it a bad sign when there is more chemistry between the animated characters than there was in the live action movie?
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I liked Natalie's performance in Phantom Menace. She did what she could in Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith's scene with Vader (pre-armor) was very good. And honestly, it's not. Hayden was probably the flattest Anakin they could pick.
@TheEvilDog concur with your assessment.
@CARL-E Bitter shippers.
JackFaerie:
--- Quote from: Black Sword on 17 Feb 2011, 11:03 ---
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 17 Feb 2011, 08:13 ---
--- Quote from: Black Sword on 17 Feb 2011, 07:09 ---
We're all posting in a forum. Most of us are geeks or nerds who have seen Star Wars. Padme is how many of the posters would be conditioned to spell it, especially after Natalie Portman's relatively strong performance and beauty... although if you want to get picky, Padmé is the correct spelling. (numberpad power!)
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Relatively strong compared to Mr. Christiansen maybe, but still a lackluster performance in a group of movies that while technically well done, lacked the magic of the originals. Is it a bad sign when there is more chemistry between the animated characters than there was in the live action movie?
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I liked Natalie's performance in Phantom Menace. She did what she could in Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith's scene with Vader (pre-armor) was very good. And honestly, it's not. Hayden was probably the flattest Anakin they could pick.
@TheEvilDog concur with your assessment.
@CARL-E Bitter shippers.
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It's great that we're all geeks and all, but how about not also being ignorant and racially blind geeks? "Padma" is common Sanskrit name. QC Padma is of desi origin. To continuously confuse her entirely appropriate and not at all strange name with a sci-fi character is to basically insist on the primacy and "normalcy" of your preferred western-created fantasy world over her actual culture.
Justin Alexander:
--- Quote from: JackFaerie on 17 Feb 2011, 11:14 ---It's great that we're all geeks and all, but how about not also being ignorant and racially blind geeks? "Padma" is common Sanskrit name. QC Padma is of desi origin. To continuously confuse her entirely appropriate and not at all strange name with a sci-fi character is to basically insist on the primacy and "normalcy" of your preferred western-created fantasy world over her actual culture.
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Padme is also a name from India. You should probably try educating yourself before throwing around insults.
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