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Why does Dora need therapy?
Tiogyr:
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--- Quote from: Tiogyr on 14 Jun 2011, 03:37 ---Maybe if Marten had anything interesting going on in his life (any hobbies that he could share with any girlfriend so they had something to do besides fuck each other and gripe about work), things wouldn't have been so stagnant so quickly.
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Why is the responsibility entirely with him?
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Why is the responsibility entirely with Dora? Oh wait, you're asking a question that isn't even remotely related to what I said.
--- Quote from: Tiogyr on 14 Jun 2011, 03:37 ---Here is the interesting thing: This isn't an either or situation where only one person is to blame for the relationship going to Hell. Both Marten and Dora have equal shares in why things didn't work out (90% of which has to do with them flat out not being compatible in any way once they got past physical attraction to one another).
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JordanDH:
I don't know, I didn't see that stagnancy was an issue. I thought it was more the totally inequal rules placed on the participants in the relationship and the frequent arguments that arose from this. Which two people in the comics are compatible in your mind?
Tiogyr:
--- Quote from: JordanDH on 14 Jun 2011, 06:45 ---I don't know, I didn't see that stagnancy was an issue. I thought it was more the totally inequal rules placed on the participants in the relationship and the frequent arguments that arose from this. Which two people in the comics are compatible in your mind?
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No two characters are actually all that compatible with one another, with the possible exception of Angus and Faye at the moment because they are each honestly looking for what they're getting from each other (Angus is into being abused, Faye is into dishing out abuse, this is perfectly fine as long as the people getting into the relationship agree to it ahead of time).
You know, as opposed to Marten and Dora, where they were both claiming they wanted one thing but treating the other person like they were expecting something completely different. Marten is just as guilty of this as Dora, what with starting off on treating her as if he expected her to rail him about everything from the very start.
JordanDH:
Marten and Dora enjoyed each other's company when she wasn't being completely unreasonable, had lots of sex, they seemed quite attached to each other. Why else would Dora be afraid of losing him? Why else would Marten be sad when the relationship ended?
Spectreofwar:
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--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 13 Jun 2011, 18:50 ---1) http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1395
Dora admits that they don't have much in common.
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Stoutfiles, you are seriously reaching.
She said that ONE aspect of Marten, which is a sizeable portion of him, is one she'll never be able to have a conversation with him about, and even if she did it'd be a girlfriend one.
How on EARTH did you take that to mean, and I quote, "they don't have much in common"? Face it, you're projecting, and at this point doing a poor job of it. If you have issues with Marten, just say it, but now you're just grasping at straws.
What really is your problem with this angle of the strip? What about Dora puts you so zealously on her "side" of things?
P.S. Link works now.
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If you'd bother to look at this strip like it was a real relationship, you'd see that someone as one-dimensional as Marten would get old. He's a Nice Guy who puts on a happy face everyday and bows to whatever Dora wants. That never works. He has one interesting hobby and they can't talk about it...Hanners and co. get a slightly interesting Marten while Dora gets a manatee she can fuck. One aspect...it's his only aspect! Otherwise he's a guy who works at a meaningless job, and then goes to a coffee shop, a bakery, or a bar. I've never hid the fact that I have a big problem with Marten having any motivation to better himself, especially for a guy that never seems to be happy.
My problem is that anyone dating Marten would appear crazy as they'd want to escape the bleak purgatory he creates but would have no openings to do so. The whole time with him would be an unstimulating bore; witty comments and niceness only go so far. I want to see Dora date someone who's not affiliated with her brother and who's not our everyman.
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Actually, I have bothered to look at this strip like a real relationship, which is what has kept me interested for as long as it has. I have actually paid more attention to this webcomic than any TV show in recent time. Marten is one-dimensional, and I'm not all that interested in him either, compared to his friends and how he interacts with them. But I don't go and make up stuff for my favourites like you apparently do (as pointed out in my previous reply).
You are doing nothing more right now than projecting yourself and your views on your favourite character (talk about something getting old!), and attempting to defend a point that Dora should or should not being going to therapy because she broke up with Marten.
If you had bothered to read the comic, you may have picked up that Dora has ALWAYS had issues. Pushing her to therapy was an event that came after the break-up, because her given reasons for the break-up were the culmination of all her issues affecting not only her life but those around her. THAT requires HELP, if you can't do it alone(and Dora has admitted that she tried to get over her issues; I'm not making this one up, she actually said those words). To give you an actual answer to your OP title: Dora needs therapy because her issues are holding her back in aspects of life that she has stated she wanted to change, which are affecting her in a detrimental way, and she cannot change on her own.
Besides, who are you to judge what relationships she can or cannot have, any more than her friends? Their every moments aren't displayed in this comic. Who are you to say you know better than those who spend all their time with her? If you had bothered to look at the strip like it was a real relationship, you'd know they're NEVER as simple as they seem from the outside, and a detached 3rd-person view never accounts for actual feelings.
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