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WCDT: 2021-2025 (26-30 Sep 2011)
snubnose:
--- Quote from: Throg on 28 Sep 2011, 07:04 ---One thing about Padma's 'cluelessness' / wilful obliviousness / subtle chain-yanking: in the comic where Marten was being dragged off panel by a grumpy Eliot, she actually did look worried. She knew something was going down.
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Nope. Even ignoring the fact the whole strip was more played for laughs than anything else, Padma looks rather like puzzled, then like worried.
If Padma or Momo would actually have believed Marten would be in any danger, both could have done something about it. They dont, so thats a clear sign they either dont get why Marten is so worried or they dont believe he's in danger.
Near Lurker:
Elliot's an idiot, and Marten's dead wrong.
Elliot's an idiot because if he should realize by now that most women aren't going to make the first move, and that, even that notwithstanding, there's a difference between "interested enough to make a move" and "interested enough to consider it."
Marten's wrong because telling her now is just going to be an awkward guilt trip no one needs. He'll have regrets either way, and doesn't need to plant that spectre in her head as well. He should have told her two years ago, but the time for honesty is over.
SomeCanadianWeirdo:
Penelope once described Wil as "dangerously naive." This is a good example. Doing something like that in a bar is a good way for someone to "Give him the broken face!" Drunk people in an emotional crisis tend to have less control over their behaviour than non-drunk people in the same situation. Fortunately Elliot, despite his appearance, seems closer to Hannelore in his temperment. Which is of course half his problem here.
themacnut:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 28 Sep 2011, 09:22 ---
Marten's wrong because telling her now is just going to be an awkward guilt trip no one needs. He'll have regrets either way, and doesn't need to plant that spectre in her head as well. He should have told her two years ago, but the time for honesty is over.
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I'm with Near Lurker, and Elliot himself, here. Telling Padma will do no good to anyone, and is more likely to piss her off than cause her to fall into his arms; "You're telling me this NOW?? When I'm leaving??? You IDIOT!!!". Or even worse, she'll think his admitting his feelings is a desperate but cute final attempt to get her to stay, and actually LAUGH. Not necessarily at Elliot per se, but what she perceives as his ploy to persuade her to stay. Elliot of course, will be devastated by her thinking his pouring his feelings out to her is humorous.
Nope, no good will come of Elliot speaking up now. He'll just have to suck it up, let her go, and hopefully learn the life lesson to not wait so damn long to make a move on a woman he finds attractive.
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 27 Sep 2011, 10:02 ---
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 27 Sep 2011, 00:51 ---Elliot sits kind of… short on a barstool. Or else the guy really hunkers.
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Perhaps they have a special short barstool for him so he doesn't loom over the rest of the customers.
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Weeping hour, fancy clothes provided, and now this. They think of everything in that bar, don't they? I wonder who their know-it-all is, and where he (or she) sits?
--- Quote from: Akima on 28 Sep 2011, 02:55 ---It is just as well that Elliot is not like a certain other bowler-hatted young man, or he might relieve his feelings with a horrorshow spot of ultra-violence.
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I thought Alex was cured…
… of wearing bowler hats. Been a long time since last I saw that movie, though. Maybe not.
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