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Why does Dora need therapy?
Carl-E:
I can agree that Marten has some unresolved feelings for Faye. He'd never act on them, and "Africa" pretty much torpedoed everything from Faye's side.
Dora had issues stemming from this, but they were her issues, related to her insecurities. The breakup was probably inevitable (there, I said it).
But that doesn't mean that Dora doesn't need help getting past her problems. They are real, and they are sabotaging her happiness, and yes, by Frued's definition (one of the few things he did that's still valid), she is not mentally healthy.
Should she date Jim? No, but that's more because of the business/work thing than the fact that he may (or may not) be good for her. We don't know him well enough yet, but I know how a business can be ruined by a relationship going south, and that's something neither Jim nor Dora can really afford.
Of course, what would this comic be without a little drama?
akronnick:
This thread makes me contemplate all the varied meanings of the phrase "bag of hammers."
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 09 Jun 2011, 18:24 --- I don't see someone like Dora being happy with him. She clearly wasn't.
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To be truly happy with someone, it is necessary to be properly happy with yourself; this is where therapy can help Dora.
Now, when I asked you what made you so certain about things, my intention was to remind you that there are 7 billion people in the world, and rather a lot of them don't think the same as you. This isn't exactly a matter of right and wrong, but to point out that one size or viewpoint doesn't fit all; also that even on this forum there are people who appear to have considerably more experience in these matters than you.
I would also point out the limitations of ignoring authorial intention in a comic like this. It is possible to analyse a book in new ways, and come to conclusions about its characters that are at variance with the author's own views on the matter - indeed, this is rather fashionable these days - but in the case of a serial comic, you have to accept that the next day the author will come back and continue the story according to his own view. This is not to deny that the characters in the author's own head can surprise him when he is writing, which Jeph says happens to him, but it does mean that the scope for forcing your own view of the world onto his characters is really quite limited. So I offer Jeph's own view (from the discussion of Marten's drunken faux-pas):
--- Quote from: jeph on 16 Dec 2010, 02:15 ---Marten and Faye are best friends. They know each other incredibly well. There is no way Faye, at the point where she is right now, would EVER think Marten's actions were anything more than drunken idiocy.
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Also a reminder of his views on this kind of discussion (from the same day):
--- Quote from: jeph on 16 Dec 2010, 02:21 ---For what it's worth, I don't care if people overanalyze things. I mean, I think it's stupid, and they're wrong 99% of the time, but that's kind of what forums are FOR. It's the stupid arguing, [...] and the "I [...] will drag this into every single discussion" idiocy that I have a problem with.
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Is it cold in here?:
Marten made Dora happy. She said so, in so many words, in strip 1005.
iduguphergrave:
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 09 Jun 2011, 20:04 ---
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 09 Jun 2011, 19:19 ---
If Marten really wasn't over Faye, he would be having the angry rants while he was sober, not drunk. And he certainly would've had a MUCH bigger problem when Faye slept with Sven.
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No, because Marten's not like that. He holds stuff in a lot.
Whatever...there are two sides to this and I'm obviously on the side that says that Marten never really got over Faye.
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Let me rephrase that: If Marten really wasn't over Faye, he would have been quietly lashing out at Dora in passive-aggressive ways during their relationship, a road Marten actively tried to steer them away from.
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