Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 21-25 February 2011 (1866-1870)
Odin:
The only people that like Hannelore as a character are the ones not-so-secretly wishing Jeph would Rule 34 her.
Carl-E:
I knew someone in our social circle with that level of naivete. And, IRL, I did try and avoid her - it was like having a conversation with one of those those early AI programs - incredibly frustrating, and you had to explain everything.
I personally like Hanners best when she calls people on their own silliness, or drops pearls of absolute wisdom into a conversation.
The freakouts would be hard to deal with IRL as well, but that would induce feelings of pity and frustration more than aggravation and disgust. I'd want to help calm her...
Armadillo:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 25 Feb 2011, 12:34 ---I knew someone in our social circle with that level of naivete. And, IRL, I did try and avoid her - it was like having a conversation with one of those those early AI programs - incredibly frustrating, and you had to explain everything.
I personally like Hanners best when she calls people on their own silliness, or drops pearls of absolute wisdom into a conversation.
The freakouts would be hard to deal with IRL as well, but that would induce feelings of pity and frustration more than aggravation and disgust. I'd want to help calm her...
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I'd want to help her, too...
...until the 156th time it happened, then I might just tell her to F off.
Personal story time!
I have a group of friends who share a common hobby, and we'll get together a few times a year for an evening of laughter, friendship, and damn good beer. Everybody has a great time, we all have maybe one or two too many beers, and merriment is the rule of the evening.
...except for one person who always, and I mean always, has an emotional meltdown at roughly the same time every party. The first couple of times it happened, we would all stop the raucousness and try to calm them down and get them back into the swing of things. The problem was, it sucked the life out of the party for a good hour or so, but we didn't care because hey, who hasn't been there emotionally, right?
When it started happening at EVERY party, EVERY bar night, EVERY cookout, EVERY event is when it got damn old, and we all stopped giving half a crap.
DSL:
I've had a couple co-workers who exhibited low-level Hanneloreism (one would stand behind you as you worked, staring at the back of your neck, waiting for you to turn around instead of saying something like "Hi" or "Excuse me ... " ... Yeah, this unabashed Hanners fan wonders how he'd handle knowing one in real life.
I wonder if that's why Jeph seems (to me, anyway) to be de-aging her, to where she's more like a cute goofy kid instead of the creepy woman upstairs, and therefore easier to like as a character.
My other theory is that she's the Spock (or better, Data) character: The outsider's perspective on human foibles.
EDIT (after reading posts that went in about same time as this one): Hanners' saving grace as a character is that she does step outside herself, to help a friend or otherwise perform maintenance on her social circle. In so doing, she helps herself as well .. either coming to terms with some aspect of her condition or battling it, even a little. Even in the current strip, her concern for herself transfers (albeit comically) into concern for Marigold.
beanzilla:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 24 Feb 2011, 22:38 ---
Linguistically speaking, besides, addition of things like BRB does nothing to the English lexicon but expand it. A language doesn't die unless it's systematically suppressed.
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I have so much like for this statement. :-D
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