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Should Dora go out with Jim?
O8h7w:
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 10 Jun 2011, 08:54 ---I also think this answers my question about whether she feels the same about Jim. She is still thinking about him when Tai comes in, and it seems like she's kind of scared, like "What did I do?"
I think it's obvious now that it's not a business dinner. I think she likes him too... : )
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We don't know. The one who said 'date' was Raven, and she is likely to say that at any given chance. Most likely is that one of the parties thinks it's a business date and one thinks it's a pleasure date, since that is the funniest setup. :mrgreen:
Tiogyr:
--- Quote from: O8h7w on 10 Jun 2011, 11:48 ---
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 10 Jun 2011, 08:54 ---I also think this answers my question about whether she feels the same about Jim. She is still thinking about him when Tai comes in, and it seems like she's kind of scared, like "What did I do?"
I think it's obvious now that it's not a business dinner. I think she likes him too... : )
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We don't know. The one who said 'date' was Raven, and she is likely to say that at any given chance. Most likely is that one of the parties thinks it's a business date and one thinks it's a pleasure date, since that is the funniest setup. :mrgreen:
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Jim thinks it's all business, Dora throws herself at him only to get a "Child, please." response.
That would be the funniest thing to happen, plus it would probably help snap Dora into actually doing something to better herself on a personal level once she realized what depths she let herself sink to.
O8h7w:
Good one, I vote for this. :)
jwhouk:
Well, we have been led to believe that TSB is the "Bizarro World" version of COD, so Jim's marriage may have been to a woman who had little ambition, but would jump anything that moved. Amazingly, he has a sister who he refers to as a "slut" - and maybe, just to REALLY twist the screws, turns out to be a protege of one Ms. Veronica Vance.
Stephen:
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 10 Jun 2011, 08:54 ---I also think this answers my question about whether she feels the same about Jim. She is still thinking about him when Tai comes in, and it seems like she's kind of scared, like "What did I do?"
I think it's obvious now that it's not a business dinner. I think she likes him too... : )
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:-o
Mind numbing fear and panic = likes. That's disturbing. She looked like she was afraid he was going to hit her when he asked her out. We agree she looks afraid over this. If you add that to the abuse from previous boyfriends then her accepting is bad. Given the hostility he displayed towards his divorce when he was first introduced two appearances ago it would seem that she is seeking out the same kind of guy who abused her in the past. It doesn't matter if he is that kind of guy or not only that she thinks he is. The only way for her fear to not stem from her issues with relationships (not men) is to wave the magic plot wand. The magic plot wand is worse than Deus ex Machina. I've seen it used prominently in the worst Star Trek videos. It's where in no way could something work at all but it does anyway because that is how it is written.
Like when the crew of Voyager found "cracks" in an event horizon. This story can be written in such a way that Jim and Dora live happily ever after or Tai and Dora live happily ever after or Marten and Dora live happily ever after or they all just end up in one big strange polyamorous relationship. But it shouldn't.
Jim seems like bad Questionable Content fanfiction. A character that comes out of nowhere for a romance with a main character? That kind of plotline belongs in an anime forum. Plus going by this being a Bizzaro CoD think what that really means. We already have seen the Bizarro Dora that Marten flirted with so who would Jim be the Bizarro version of? He is older, more mature, although successful not all that successful, was married and after that relationship ended badly is trying to better himself by dating other people (presumably him asking out Dora). His Bizarro version would have to be young, kind of immature, really successful in a ridiculous manner, hasn't really been in a committed relationship, trying to better himself by NOT dating...
He's Bizarro Sven. That is creepy. I thought it was unhealthy for Marten to try and see Bizarro Dora but it is creepier for Dora to date Bizarro Sven. Given that the character seems like a bad fanfiction character this just makes it all too disturbing. The night should end with Dora who looked terrified when he asked her out saying goodbye, apologizing for just not being interested even though he's a really great guy (probably) and the two continuing their business partnership amicably. This is the ideal outcome. It won't happen. He's going to let his hostility towards his ex leak into the relationship while the issues she has not yet come close to dealing with poison it from her end. No more than two months have passed since she sabotaged her relationship with uncontrolled jealousy. If you want to call it understandable fine but I find it hard to understand an emotion that pops up unexpectedly and then disappears as though nothing happened and isn't brought up until it pops up again to wreak havoc like a hurricane. The point is she is not ready to even go out on a date with someone. two months is not enough therapy time for her to be at a point where the problems that destroyed her last relationship are not affecting her judgement negatively.
And for those who say that Marten hit on Faye he didn't. Yes, he propositioned her but sex was not the point of the statement. It was him openly insulting her because like his previous girlfriend and Dora she had turned him down and she had dated Sven who was a jerk at the time. He was openly insulting women pointing out he was acting like a jerk therefore women (including Faye) should find him attractive. Had it not been for that "owl" to his head he probably would have threatened to beat up her boyfriend and then challenged her to a fight before falling over and knocking himself out. He was drunk and angry at the world. Asking her to have sex was a verbal attack.
And for all of you who say it wasn't Dora's fault YES it was. She admitted it. She admitted that she knew there was nothing going on between him and Faye, the person who introduced her to Marten, and that her problems weren't just getting better. Ignore it and it will go away is an immature attitude and it does not work.
She shouldn't date Jim anymore than this one time because in the story she has agreed and in a realistic story setting it does not work. If she is going to have a relationship with him then for their date he should show up in shiny gold armor on a diamond unicorn, wave a sceptre putting her into a ball gown, lift her up behind him and whisk her off to his palace in the clouds on a double rainbow while Aragorn, Frodo, Harry Potter, Edward, and Zelgadis all wave happily to them in congratulations.
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