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Why does Dora need therapy?
stoutfiles:
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Plans aren't stationary. Dora soon became plan A. They were attracted to each other long before they hooked up, Marten only waited for Faye to open up about her feelings first. He has always cared about others feelings first. Additionally, he doesn't really make plans, does he?
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Plan B does not become Plan A because Plan A failed. It's still Plan B. At that moment, Dora was second best. Yes, he ended up loving Dora (somewhat debatable, he made hardly any effort to try and get her back, and he moved out here chasing a girl so you know he's capable of doing so) but it doesn't change the fact that Dora was with Marten only because Faye said no.
--- Quote ---Have you read all the way from the beginning? Faye and Dora popped up in Marten's life in the same week, and that is more than two years back. The relationship between Marten and Dora lasted roughly twice as long as the non-relationship between Faye and Marten.
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Marten has liked Faye since comic 6. 6!
--- Quote from: Welu on 10 Jun 2011, 09:10 ---Another comic where Marten is, of clear non-drunk mind this time, speaking to himself so has no reason to lie about his feelings: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1891
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If he's fine with it, why would he need to monologue about it out loud? I would agree that at this point he's not worrying about it too much as he's very interested in Padma. Doesn't mean he won't wish he was wish Faye sometime in the future.
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pwhodges:
"A" and "B" are not necessarily judgemental; they are simply two alternatives, and the fact that one came before the other has no effect on their value. You are insisting on interpreting one part of the text to suit your desired outcome, even though that directly contradicts another part of the same text; but however hard you try, that does not make it so.
--- Quote from: jeph on 16 Dec 2010, 02:21 ---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.
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It may be what the forums are for, in the sense that he can't stop people doing it; but please try to be sensible. I wouldn't want you or other people to get worked up about it, would I, because that's when bad things start to happen - and then I might have to get decisive, like Marten in that same strip!
Is it cold in here?:
OK, finally found it, thanks to jwhouk's strip database. 1357 is the strip in which Dora thinks about engaging therapy.
--- Quote from: Marten from strip 447 ---Dora's a great girl, but I can't just switch my affection from one person to another like that. I need to see this Faye thing through to the end, whatever that end turns out to be.
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Elysiana:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 10 Jun 2011, 14:32 ---I wouldn't want you or other people to get worked up about it, would I, because that's when bad things start to happen - and then I might have to get decisive, like Marten in that same strip!
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You wouldn't like him when he's... decisive :mrgreen: (Okay okay, that doesn't really look like the Hulk)
iduguphergrave:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 10 Jun 2011, 05:31 ---
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 10 Jun 2011, 02:41 ---
--- 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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People can be not over someone but just bury those thoughts and make the best of their current situation because they want to move on. But then, little instances of "I like the other girl better" come up, like when Marten asked them both about Toto.
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Are you even reading the same strip? Faye asked Marten about Toto, not the other way around. Marten only asked Dora about it.
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 10 Jun 2011, 12:56 ---Yes, Marten literally says that Dora is Plan B. He likes Plan B...but she's Plan B. Would you be ok with being Plan B?
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Well as has been mentioned, Marten never said referred to them as "plans," he was just using the letters as differentiators. But if you want to get technical, Dora's more like F and Faye is E. I hope you people aren't as picky as soutflies (or Dora) is about being "B," but that's kinda something you have to deal with when you date anyone who has dated someone else before you. Most people have more than one romantic relationship in their lives; getting pissy about not being first is kinda immature. Marten had at least four other girlfriends before Faye or Dora came along; saying it's wrong for Marten to go for Dora after getting rejected by Faye would be like saying a guy can't date anyone after his first girlfriend.
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