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Re: WCDT: 2261-65 (27-31 August 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
rambleon:
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--- Quote from: rambleon on 30 Aug 2012, 12:48 ---Please bring back good ol' Sven, Steve and crazy Hannelore stories. :cry:
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Jeph has tweeted about something like this only a few hours ago (and some following tweets).
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I understand his reaction, it is logic and wouldn't expect another answer if I had sent an email to ask him to change his scenario. But here I am just discussing about the current strips on a forum; I think there is not better place for that.
Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, new people!
Characters should be realistic in a drama, and only somewhat exaggerated in a comedy. QC is both, so it's fair to debate whether the characters are acting realistically. Humans in a weird environment are still humans, and we are here to overanalyze.
There is a premise to the strip that nobody in it understands boundaries, so in context it may be realistic.
It is important, due to some raw nerves here from previous incidents, to phrase hopes about the comic ("I wish for more Mieville", e.g.) so that they can't be mistaken for telling Jeph what to do.
billydaking:
--- Quote from: chickabiddybex on 01 Sep 2012, 03:01 ---I think Tai's being a bit insensitive. Going out with your friend's ex is one thing, but asking that friend for advice? I think that's just rubbing his face in it.
Also, doesn't Tai have any of her own friends? I get that she's friends with Marten but they're "good work pals" at best and I'm sure she has other people to talk to that she's closer to.
Don't get me wrong - I like Tai! I just don't think this is realistic.
(yes, the comic strip with anthropcs and space travel is unrealistic! :P)
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It is realistic when said ex has obviously moved on and has already dated/had a fling with somebody else and has time and again given Tai his okay. You're forgetting that Marten gave advice to Dora about Tai, and Tai knows this. Also, I think you have a complete misread on Marten and Tai's friendship. "Good work pals" rarely hang out together on weekends and normally do not join somebody's circle of friends. I've been working for 20 years, and I've had "good work pals," and those relationships really do not continue after the job is over outside of professional networking, unless they've actually evolved into a real friendship.
The biggest thing I think people are missing is that Tai is still a college student living in a college environment, which in any era is simply a bizzaro society where 90 percent of the people walking around are within 4 years of age of each other and are experiencing their first breath of independence. Whatever friends she has there isn't going to have the perspective Tai needs with what she needs to talk about Dora. Tai has occasionally talked about the drama of her relationships in college; Dora is something else to her. She's an older woman who owns her own business, so it's not surprising that Tai may feel a bit out of her depth, despite her attraction to Dora. It's also not surprising that Tai is going to talk about those issues with somebody who (a) already encouraged her and Dora to get together, (b) is coming from a similar perspective of Dora, and (c) is the only one of that group of friends she knows well enough to trust to talk about it. I don't buy the idea that Tai can talk to Faye about this, especially since Faye, from Tai's perspective, is probably Dora's best friend, and Tai doesn't know her that well yet.
Is it cold in here?:
Not a lot of good sources for relationship advice.
Madmartigan:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 02 Sep 2012, 18:43 ---Not a lot of good sources for relationship advice.
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Oh man those are bad options. But Faye's comment about herself was before her continued success with Angus.
Still don't think it is all that realistic to be so involved in asking your supposedly good friend about advice for his ex. I certainly wouldn't. But again, I suppose this all comes down to what one thinks is socially acceptable and what kind of boundaries each person has.
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