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WCDT: 2387-2391 (18-22 February, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 21 Feb 2013, 06:16 ---All I can say is, poor Claire. She is trying so hard, and Marten is still oblivious.
New prediction: Marten will figure out he actually does want Claire - about five minutes too late.
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That will be PAINFUL for me to read. PAINFUL.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: judemorrigan on 21 Feb 2013, 06:10 ---Finally, allow me to note that James Bond didn't trust men who wore Windsor knots. He noted in From Russia With Love that it was often the mark of a cad. James. Bond. Game, set, match.
:-D
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Because James Bond could never be called a cad, of course!
Glass houses, mister Bond. Glass houses.
bhtooefr:
Yeah, the Marten oblivious factor is actually part of why I don't see anything being inverted, and it being Marten pursuing Claire.
We already know Claire finds someone who essentially looks like Marten plus 20-30 years or so to be so attractive that she can barely speak, too. And, she's so defensive of Marten that she destroyed work that her boss assigned her, when she believed that her boss did something to hurt Marten.
Poor girl is head over heels for Marten, I suspect. (Hell, she might've been attracted to him quite early on, and that's why she came out to him.)
TimO:
Presumably the implication is that Claire has tied ties previously for herself (himself? I'm not sure which gender to use in this context), but now having to tie one for someone else, and from the wrong perspective, is what's confused her. I take that red face as relating to frustration rather than embarrassment at being too close to Marten.
Whilst I did my own tie for four years at secondary school, and over a decade whilst working in the Civil Service, and can still easily tie one now (for Weddings, Funerals etc), I think I'd be stumped trying to do it from that perspective, and I'd also need the big-end on the right, the opposite way to how Marten has it. Wearing open necked shirts and T-shirts for work is sooo much easier, and far more comfortable. :-)
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: Bluesummers on 21 Feb 2013, 06:26 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 21 Feb 2013, 06:16 ---All I can say is, poor Claire. She is trying so hard, and Marten is still oblivious.
New prediction: Marten will figure out he actually does want Claire - about five minutes too late.
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That will be PAINFUL for me to read. PAINFUL.
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Well, yes. That's the point. I'll let you in on a little secret from the standard author's toolkit: You always do the worst things to the characters you like the best. Your audience will scream bloody murder about it, and then demand more.
Seriously though, there's a reason why "happily ever after" comes at the end of a story. I've learned to beware a happy ending that comes too soon - you're just being set up for a tragedy. So we have a choice: Claire and Marten live happily ever after, and QC ends; or they don't, and QC continues to document Marten's tragic love life.
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