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WCDT: 2256-60 (20-24 August 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
pwhodges:
Relationships are based on misunderstanding. Once you realise that, the only way to go is up.
Is it cold in here?:
Tai wanted to go to a goth club, back when Martenmom was visiting.
verdyyy3:
Whatever the reason for the come back, I like goth Dora! :-D Tai in that dress on the other hand... weird.
Milesb:
--- Quote from: DSL on 20 Aug 2012, 14:32 ---They're each trying for what they think the other wants.
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Quoted for absolute truth.
Dora is in her Goth clothing because it's an association with a more relaxed and experimental time in her life. Clothing of that period invokes feelings of the time, ie she's trying to be what she sees Tai as, youthful and experimental. (Try it yourself, put an old work outfit on and see how it makes you feel)
Tai is coming from the opposite extreme, hence the bad dress in an effort to match what she perceives Dora as: maturity, stability and wisdom.
The two dresses expose their extremely different viewpoints at a superficial level (clothing) and on a deeper level (emotional/relationship expectation) simultaneously.
So unless they get down to actually trying to understand each other it's gonna be a train wreck.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Milesb on 21 Aug 2012, 15:53 ---Dora is in her Goth clothing because it's an association with a more relaxed and experimental time in her life. Clothing of that period invokes feelings of the time, ie she's trying to be what she sees Tai as, youthful and experimental. (Try it yourself, put an old work outfit on and see how it makes you feel)
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I think rather that she's trying for her youth, and reaching a little. We know she can do a sophisticated, mature version of goth (meeting Henry and Maurice), here she's trying to appeal to someone about 6 - 8 years her junior.
It doesn't really work, IMHO.
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