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WCDT 2101-2105 (January 16-20, 2012) - A New Hope
Marfo:
--- Quote from: themacnut on 16 Jan 2012, 12:18 ---Yeah I'm starting to agree with you-looks like Jeph meant it when he said he was writing out any possibility of happiness for Marten in this comic. Which of course means any attempt of his to reach Padma will most likely also end in abject failure.
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Jeph said that? I get that he is the god of the comic, but it seems odd to target a character like that. Even relatively unlucky people get a break sometimes, and while Marty is a manatee, he isn't evil enough to never deserve happiness.
Anyway, I guess we'll see how it plays out. If I were Marten, I'd take this as a "missed opportunity" and focus on enjoying singledom. He needs to work on himself and his interests more, the last few hundred comics have been far too focused on his relationships. I do get that a few comics of him playing around with music programs might not inspire readership, but I really could use a bit more lulz and happy beer sledding times, not one more current of OH NO DRAMA. It isn't my comic at all, so I'll just send my wishes of a more relaxed arc into the universe.
Emperor Norton:
Ok, am I right in thinking that since most people completely ignored my post... that no one else finds it odd that Faye has a near psychic understanding of why Padma did what she did, but didn't seem to think it was a good idea to tell Marten until after it was too late?
Obliviousness is what caused everything with the way this broke down. Marten didn't realise she cared, she didn't realise Marten cared. If Faye was aware of what was going on... why didn't she tell him? Why did she let him think that she didn't want anything to do with him (or jokingly suggest she had the shits) rather than just say what she suspected.
The whole current comic comes off as though it came from a reader, someone who has the all seeing eye perspective to know whats going on, rather than a character whose only perspective is what Marten has told her, and when you look at it if she did have these insights... it really looks silly for her to be berating him.
All I know is if she had just dropped all of that bomb on me in a similar situation, my response wouldn't be "ow you owned me" it would be "Why didn't you tell me that?"
Armadillo:
A HUG!!! MY GOD, CAN SOMEONE JUST GIVE THE POOR GUY A HUG?!?!?
*preferably one that doesn't end in a tweaked nipple.
Is it cold in here?:
Marten has already snapped, in the post-Dora binge when he did something we couldn't see that put Faye into Security Override mode.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Marfo on 16 Jan 2012, 12:41 ---
--- Quote from: themacnut on 16 Jan 2012, 12:18 ---Yeah I'm starting to agree with you-looks like Jeph meant it when he said he was writing out any possibility of happiness for Marten in this comic.
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Jeph said that?
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Yes, he did; but I presume it was not necessarily for all time, and was expressed to tease his readers. It's also worth remembering that Marten has been pretty happy (with a couple of brief upsets) for something like two thirds of the history of QC; it would not be out of scale for another 500 strips to pass before he sorts himself out and finds his next stable relationship.
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 16 Jan 2012, 12:42 ---All I know is if she had just dropped all of that bomb on me in a similar situation, my response wouldn't be "ow you owned me"
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I think that response was to her reminder about wasting his present life, not the previous bit about working it out with Padma.
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