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WCDT: 2372-2376 (28 January - 1 February 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
StevenC:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 30 Jan 2013, 05:51 ---If this was real-life rather than QC.... Claire goes with Marten, recognises Maurice as her father* (who she rather despises). He doesn't recognise her though, as he's unaware of her transition.
But such improbabilities only happen in reality, they're far too implausible to use in a comic strip.
So I'm going for.... Sven. Outside chance, Marigold.
* - or father's ex-boyfriend...
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If this was a soap opera, Claire goes with Marten, recognises Maurice as her father's ex-boyfriend who she had a single night of passion with before he had to leave for Antarctica on an exploration during which he fell into a coma for a year which drove Claire to drinking. After he awoke from the coma in a field hospital in central Africa, he suffered from Amnesia, not knowing anything about his past, only driven by a weird feeling of "I have to go there" to Miami, where he met Mr. Reed. Seeing Claire at his wedding, he recognises her even through the transition, again falls head over heels in love with her despite her now being a woman inside and out, and elopes with her.
A week later, Marten gets cut out of Mr. Reed's will.
K1dmor:
--- Quote from: ukrayf on 30 Jan 2013, 12:31 ---Emily invited him to her beach house and implied he was basically one of her only friends.
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Thanks. Now i remember that and i'm like "Awww, Emily :cry: "
hobo386:
--- Quote from: Sidhekin on 30 Jan 2013, 05:42 ---
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 30 Jan 2013, 03:38 ---Amazing, really, isn't it, how simple knowledge can so distort someone's perceptions that they start inserting things that not only aren't there, aren't even close to being hinted at.
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Now, be fair – while these things "aren't there" in the comic, they've certainly "been here" in the forum.
I don't blame anyone who reads the forum for holding the idea that we're getting "let's explore gender issues" with Claire.
(The comic has handled it in a nice, calm way, rather low tone perhaps. The forum was, for a while, a train crash, and could easily revert to that form.)
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This may be what I was thinking. But I feel the comic is still trying to explore them in the "trans-people are just people" way. And that her coming out being placed at the climax of the party arc kindof made it important to some extent (though it did handle it well).
Personally, I don't understand most of the trans-community, and I don't think I ever will. I can't really get beyond "people are people," so I can't really wrap my head around why people place so much importance on the distinction between things like cis, trans, pre-op, post-op, gender, sex, bi, bi-curious, genderqueer, queer, gay, pansexual, asexual, or whatever. It's all too much to worry about. And even though it don't understand the differences between half of them, I feel that the labels are somewhat harmful for people who identify with them because it pidgeonholes them into a category rather than letting them just be people. However, this really isn't something I feel like discussing in the forums, so I'm gonna keep my mouth shut for the next week or so (And y'know, discuss at your own risk).
Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, new people! No Marten/Claire shipping, please. All we've seen is a Trusted Friend dynamic and Marten has already ruled out doing something as unethical as dating an intern.
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It's sad that people aren't flexible enough to use a different running gag. It's the rigidity.
westrim:
Anyone Jeph can ship, we can ship better, we can ship anyone better than Jeph.
No we can't!
Yes we can.
No we can't!
Yes we can.
No we can't!
Yes we can, yes we can, yes we caaaaaaaaaaaaan!
My opinion is that for a ship to be sunk (even by word of god) it has to have already been out of drydock and set sail, and therefore all ships are valid, even gaudy top heavy ones like the Wasa. For my own use, I mostly don't because I think shipping is ridiculous when we have planes.
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