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WCDT: 2171-2175 (22-27 April 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Border Reiver:
And now Dora leaves the office to fine out that the next patient is ....
Winslow.
FunkyTuba:
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--- Quote from: Welu on 23 Apr 2012, 03:29 ---The idea he's saying it straight to her now because she hasn't been guided to it like he might be trying to do is possible considering how Dora reacted to her first therapy session.
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Yar, thatīs what I thought too.
Due to excessive Obliviousness he just went for slighty more in-your-face approach.
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I'm one more in the "my intuitive approach wasn't working so I'll have to do some exposition" camp. I think we'd do well to remember that this scene is about Dora, not her therapist :)
techkid:
--- Quote from: CompSarge on 22 Apr 2012, 22:43 ---Poor Jeph just cannot catch a break, can he? :psyduck: I thought that he portrayed the psychiatrist perfectly, and nothing that Dora said in response to his diagnosis was OOC. It sounds to me like he hit the nail right on the head, and Dora (like any human being being criticized) doesn't want to accept the truth.
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The thing that the Twitterers (whichever ones are bitching and moaning) have to get their minds around is that QC is not ENTIRELY based on real world events and practices. As a dedicated storyteller, Jeph will go for "plausible" so that it makes sense to us, but as a dedicated webcomic artist, would also give it a bit of an edge to keep us interested in the story.
Like when we were discussing last week's WCDT, the overall sentiment was "the therapist will say what he thinks, then get Dora to think about what he just said". With Dora's "DON'T YOU LEAVE ME HANGING", he gave her the quick wrap-up of what he wants Dora to explore. Dora will still have to find the answers, he's just given her a hint as to what she's supposed to be looking for.
I don't see a problem with that, but then I'm not a therapist (probably more in need of therapy than anything else).
Mr. Doctor:
^ Basically, those people don't know how to read comics.
Is it cold in here?:
Yes, sometimes it's almost as if it weren't a record of events but instead was a story told with various tools including exposition.
The therapist was also right. Dora is insecure. One way to handle that is to seek control. Everything about that diagnosis fits what we've seen of Dora since her first appearance
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