Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2001-2005 (29 Aug-2 Sept 2011)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 30 Aug 2011, 16:27 ---If Angus had maturity, foresight, or any sense, he would have felt the same way about Marigold...and would have realized Faye is no good, and a bitch. Maybe deep down he does realize that, but decides to let his penis call the shots.
Don't get me wrong--I hate Angus almost as much as I hate Faye.
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Basically, all you're saying is that you would prefer a different story and characters to the ones in this comic. Well, you're stuck with them - or not, of course, because you can simply read something you prefer instead - and I suggest that simply arguing that a story should be different from how it is is an entirely pointless occupation. In fact, if it goes on much longer it will become trolling.
gangler:
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 30 Aug 2011, 15:53 ---I will never get over how he was like "we're just friends" because HE decided that was how it was going to be. Mari didn't have a say in it in the slightest...and Angus didn't even want to consider being with her. It made me sick!
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Um... no. Mari didn't have a say in the slightest after she had been refused. That's how that works. Do you work under some system where one is obligated to try or at least consider romance with everyone who displays interest in such a pursuit with you?
You don't need a reason to not enter a committed relationship, you need a reason to enter said relationship. He saw no reason to do so. She did not hold such an appeal to him. He had no desire to pursue romance with Marigold.
Another way to phrase it would be that her say was "I'm interested in trying this" and his say was "I am not". That's where the discussion ends. You need two for this.
Every day there are thousands of things I don't do. I don't have a specific reason for not doing each and every one of them. I simply have no desire to do them or have something else I would rather do. The entire notion of having to justify not expanding beyond friendship is so backwards I don't even know how to do it justice in addressing it.
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 30 Aug 2011, 16:27 ---Yeah but see, if he'd been with her, he WOULDN'T be an idiot. He's an idiot because he's with Faye and because he didn't choose Marigold. And yes, because he spent so long pursuing someone who wasn't interested and treated him like crap.
AND had past relationship baggage...which Marigold would NOT have. I can't understand why he would rather be with Faye. I don't get it. I would think the only reason he was pursuing someone like Faye is because he thought Marigold only liked him as a friend.
Honestly, I have an idea of who I'd like to see Marigold with now that Angus is an idiot...but apparently "shipping" isn't allowed, so I can't say... lol.
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Nothing wrong with pursuing someone for extended periods of time so long as the advances are welcome. You paint it like he was somehow some incomplete being pining after her for all that time. He showed himself to be a perfectly healthy person who was quite comfortable being single, but had no objection to pursuing someone who appealed to him.
He didn't spend his entire days doing this. Just some flirtation when he would run into her during his daily coffee runs. This was in no way anything that dominated any part of his life, and were someone else who appealed to him to come along he was hardly gonna hang around waiting for the coffee girl he likes to flirt with.
It doesn't matter if you can see why he would enjoy someone like that or not. As near as I can tell he enjoyed her wit, shared some interests with her, and found her attractive, but it doesn't matter. One size doesn't fit all. If that's what he wanted in a partner then I see no problem in pursuing that. It's not stupid to spend your time on what makes you happy.
One could quite easily create an entire list of the reasons why Marigold would be an undesirable partner, but evidently she matches what you would enjoy. I would not criticize someone for being able to look past her confidence issues or reclusive tendencies.
themacnut:
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan ---...If Angus had maturity, foresight, or any sense, he would have felt the same way about Marigold...and would have realized Faye is no good, and a bitch. Maybe deep down he does realize that, but decides to let his penis call the shots.
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If Angus had truly been letting his penis call the shots, he would've banged drunk Marigold when she came on to him. That's a kind of thing a guy who's led by his penis does. He certainly wanted to, as he confessed to Faye later.
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: gangler on 30 Aug 2011, 16:40 ---He didn't spend his entire days doing this. Just some flirtation when he would run into her during his daily coffee runs. This was in no way anything that dominated any part of his life, and were someone else who appealed to him to come along he was hardly gonna hang around waiting for the coffee girl he likes to flirt with.
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Worth adding that this did indeed happen, and there was a period where he stopped coming to CoD for a while because he was dating another girl.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Tova on 30 Aug 2011, 15:07 ---If only I were more enlightened, I could hate more.
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If you were enlightened you wouldn't hate at all... :angel:
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 30 Aug 2011, 16:27 ---I can't understand why he would rather be with Faye. I don't get it.
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He likes her sass, and the way she matches him in conversational kung-fu. Marigold offers him nothing in that line. If we were to exaggerate Marigold's flaws as much as Faye's, we could say that she's a mopey shut-in with bad personal hygiene, who spends 99% of her free time glued to WoW and Yaoi. Maybe Angus didn't find that appealing.
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