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WCDT: 11-15 July 2011 (1966-1970)
NotAwesomeAnymore:
I think this Dora thing is what's supposed to break her constant sex craving. I saw it as a transition for her character.
--- Quote from: Blood-Tree on 14 Jul 2011, 12:28 ---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.
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But Dora is not Marten's. It's not fair, just cos he was with her first.
grimeyville:
--- Quote from: NotAwesomeAnymore on 14 Jul 2011, 12:45 ---But Dora is not Marten's. It's not fair, just cos he was with her first.
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Sure, Tai and Dora can date some time down the road if that time comes, and sure Marten is not with Dora, and Dora is not with Marten.
It's just a manner of...
Dora herself has realized she needs to be at peace with herself in so many words, that it's time for soul-searching, not relationships.
Tai apologized to Marten for being a jerk and trying to set up a way that she could have Dora fling herself in Tai's arms, hopefully with seeing Marten there. (I am just going to assume here that Tai was hoping Dora and Marten would see each other, argue, Dora would go into a rage, start drinking with Tai, and WOOPS~One Night Stand. Unfortunately for Tai, this college logic doesn't work because well, Dora and Marten are past those stages in emotional development.
After apologizing, she tries to go after Dora anyway, but...
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1949
Tai and Marten never discussed it more in detail. Sure Tai said she was sorry but she never said she was not going to go after Dora anyway. Marten said he was uncomfortable about it, but also qualified that it's not his place to say if they should date or not.
Looking at today's...
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1969
I think we are simply seeing Tai knock herself out, and instead of trying to recover, she just sort of took Dora's words and ran with them.
Dora seemed to be taking Tai's stuttering fit for her not wanting to hurt Marten, though that's far from anything Tai is thinking. Tai just wants to confess her feelings for Dora and instead lets herself get shut out by... Herself.
gprimr1:
This has been a great month for QC so far. A lot of plot development.
iduguphergrave:
If Tai was really the horrible person certain people on here seem to think she is, she would have finished the sentence Dora cut off. Instead she wisely backed down by just saying "Right;" letting Dora have the ignorant bliss even though she's obviously hurt now. Also, I'd like to point out that Tai's "advances," for lack of a better word, haven't been all that aggressive. The most obvious instance would be her taking her shirt off at Dora's place, but that wasn't planned and Faye was there too, so it came off as more of a "yay naked ladies" moment and less of a "I'm into Dora" moment, if that makes any sense. Other than that, she hasn't crossed any real lines yet. And a terrible person wouldn't have apologized to Marten about trying to go after her.
--- Quote from: NotAwesomeAnymore on 14 Jul 2011, 12:04 ---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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We saw mostly her professional side at first, what with her being introduced as Marten's boss. And as Dora has shown us, someone can be very competent in the workplace and hopeless in the other areas of their lives. Now that Tai's character is being developed a bit more, we're seeing the less-stable sides of her personality. Nobody's perfect.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: wrwight on 14 Jul 2011, 12:30 ---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.
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Those were the first direct threats of that sort which I have ever made. The behaviour that led to them also caused two bans in the end, and I hope the atmosphere will now be clearer again as a result.
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