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WCDT: 11-15 July 2011 (1966-1970)
NotAwesomeAnymore:
I'm not really sure where the Tai hate is coming from... I mean, she doesn't seem like an ill-intentioned person. I'd say immautre and struggling to deal with new feelings and situations at worst.
It is weird though how Jeph's characters de-mature. I remember Tai being more grown up in her earlier appearances, the same with (I hate to repeat what so many have said) Hannelore. It's like Benjamin Button all up in here.
Blood-Tree:
--- Quote from: NotAwesomeAnymore on 14 Jul 2011, 12:04 ---I'm not really sure where the Tai hate is coming from... I mean, she doesn't seem like an ill-intentioned person. I'd say immautre and struggling to deal with new feelings and situations at worst.
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Tai has empathy but chooses to ignore it by placing her own desires before loyalty to her friends - she knows that her dating Dora would be kicking Marten but she tries to do it anyway.
Basically, she broke the Bro Code.
wrwight:
I'm not sure how you would define "caterwauling" but I've seen threats to close the WCDT, a first since I started lurking about. I would say what we've been experiencing lately could easily qualify under the term. I've had more moments where I wanted to bang my head against my desk after reading this thread, as speculation ran even wilder than it normally does. Don't get me wrong, you can check the last couple of WCDTs and verify that I'm a big fan of subtext and reading between the lines, but it has gotten to the point of ridiculous a few times. I find myself getting sucked into the ridiculous too, and it's like I know it's stupid, but I just can't help myself. As Jeph has stated himself, there isn't always a deeper meaning to every detail in his comic (paraphrasing of course), but there are some serious fans who choose to believe otherwise, either in denial of the author's comment, assuming some Freudian "there are no accidents" point of view, or choosing to give no weight to the author's intention, and assess the work only, a popular type of literary criticism. I would tend to reject all of these, since this isn't a finished work. It's hard to dismiss what the author says, when the author isn't finished with the work yet.
Anyway, I should end this before I'm tempted to jump into the conversation. I just deleted a good paragraph about my thoughts on Tai (twice!), because they pretty much led nowhere, and I'm pretty sure they would result in flames toward me, even perhaps by those who shared many of my opinions.
idontunderstand:
My view is that Tai is genuinly in love, but realizes that it's completely impossible for different reasons.
I am not saying anything about whether they'd make a nice couple or anything. Probably not.
stoutfiles:
--- Quote from: NotAwesomeAnymore on 14 Jul 2011, 12:04 ---I'm not really sure where the Tai hate is coming from... I mean, she doesn't seem like an ill-intentioned person. I'd say immautre and struggling to deal with new feelings and situations at worst.
It is weird though how Jeph's characters de-mature. I remember Tai being more grown up in her earlier appearances, the same with (I hate to repeat what so many have said) Hannelore. It's like Benjamin Button all up in here.
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Both Tai and Hannelore have been chosen as comic relief to assist Raven and the robots. Their characters have devolved to fit that role. The only problem is Tai's humor role of "constant sex craving" isn't funny, just off-putting, especially with Marten in the mix. Innocent, OCD humor from Hanners is much better.
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