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WCDT: 2251-2255 (13-17 August 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Tova:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 18 Aug 2012, 00:21 ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transference
Come to think of it, Pintsize has made more than one advance toward The Pugnacious Peach. I will now try to forget the idea. Purple elephants purple elephants purple elephants.
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... boners? (:
--- Quote from: Dust on 18 Aug 2012, 01:09 ---What if they remind us of someone who doesn't exist? My Tai-dislike largely stems from her being just a Hawaiian shirt, '50s lingo and a Comic Exaggeration boost away from becoming Quagmire.
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I'm kinda glad you brought that up, because that is a different type of dislike... the one I was referring to is where you're 'immersed' in the character and dislike them... the other is when you dislike the characterisation, because it does not seem real to you at all, and you can't relate. I've seen that as well. I haven't felt it myself, but I can comprehend it more readily.
--- Quote from: techkid on 18 Aug 2012, 02:08 ---I'm pretty neutral toward the QC cast, overall. I mean, my biggest pet peeve is combining ignorance and arrogance (read: being a f***tard (you know what I mean, I hope), a troll, or a politician), and none of the cast has displayed those qualities.
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I do know what you mean - that's pretty much how I feel as well.
Dust:
--- Quote from: Tova on 18 Aug 2012, 02:26 ---
I'm kinda glad you brought that up, because that is a different type of dislike... the one I was referring to is where you're 'immersed' in the character and dislike them... the other is when you dislike the characterisation, because it does not seem real to you at all, and you can't relate. I've seen that as well. I haven't felt it myself, but I can comprehend it more readily.
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Fair point - her mild hovering over a couple I could buy from a background character, then she 'made the opening credits' and I didn't care for her. Especially the "forcing the matter again while she was drunk still didn't get me laid.. better put her on the spot, to hell with her unresolved issues." strips. I just got the feeling a hair-doll would have come into play if that didn't work - again, maybe that's just me.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Tova on 17 Aug 2012, 23:24 ---
--- Quote from: DSL on 17 Aug 2012, 23:10 ---Won't speak for anyone else, but I try not to get the BP too elevated about people who don't exist.
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I strongly suspect that no-one here does - rather, their BP gets elevated about someone who does exist. of whom some QC character reminds them. Hence the QC character becomes their metaphorical punching bag.
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DINGDINGDINGDING! We have a winnah!
bunnyThor:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 18 Aug 2012, 00:22 ---Welcome to the QC forums, where we nurse thousand-year grudges against fictional constructions. :emotrex:
Seriously though, the only reason anyone actually hates Angus, it seems, is they were one of the people who were sure Marten and Faye were going to fuck, that she owed him a fuck, and were absolutely flabbergasted when Jeph basically went "Never happening."
Or he's supposedly 'boring', which I'm like, dude freestyles a Trojan War riff of Single Ladies and loves 'Africa'. You are wrong, bunnyThor. (No hostility, but you are.)
That's my take, anyhow.
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If Angus isn't boring, then where's he been for the last 296 strips? I posit that the surest indicator of which characters are interesting are which characters Jeph is inspired to write about in a featured role. Other characters, for the most part, only show up as a prop for the main characters to react to or to witness the main characters' actions.
So who is currently interesting? Marten, Faye, Dora, Tai, Hanners, Momo, Marigold, and Pintsize.
Who isn't currently interesting? Steve, Cosette, Penelope, Wil, Raven, Jimbo, Amir, Angus, and (sadly) Sven.
And as to the specifics, almost any one of the characters is or has been a vehicle for witty/snarky/obscure riffs. Those are the kind of characters Jeph writes.
And preferring "Africa" to any of Toto's other songs is so obvious, it makes him less interesting. First of all 99% of all 20-somethings--if they are aware of the music of Toto at all--are only going to know the Top 10 hits: "Hold The Line", "Rosanna", "Africa", and "I Won't Hold You Back". Out of all of those, "Africa" was by far their biggest hit, and is their song that has best stood the test of time. Hell, "Africa" is my favorite Toto song, and I grew up during the time that their songs were actually new. If you go to the iTunes store, you can see that "Africa" is the #1 download (as well as #4, #6, and #9). "Africa" is really the only possible answer that you could give to the question, unless you are a music geek like Marten, or a soft rock hater like Dora.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: bunnyThor on 18 Aug 2012, 13:23 ---Who isn't currently interesting? [...] (sadly) Sven.
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Why "sadly"? If he's not interesting, then you should be glad he's not taking up your time, and if he is interesting then your logic collapses.
There are too many characters to keep in the limelight all at once, and so Jeph's attention wanders where his mood and the story-lines take him; that is not necessarily any judgement on the characters, and in fact Jeph has fairly recently said (if I recall correctly) that it is not impossible for any character to appear again, except one (presumably Sara).
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