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WCDT: 2440-2444 (6-10 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
CleoKat:
--- Quote from: Delator on 08 May 2013, 04:54 ---Has Dora ever expressed any sort of goals that weren't related to her business or resolving her emotional issues?
Seems to me you should have goals before ripping on your ex about theirs.
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Having career and personal growth goals are pretty damn good goals to have! What other goals do you expect her to have?
Dora owns her own thriving business and she's continuing to improve it too by making that deal with Jim for the baked goods and making general investments in machinery and stuff (I can't remember the fancy coffee machine, I'm a tea drinker). That's pretty damn impressive at her age and I certainly couldn't do that.
Also, her choice to go into therapy and deal with the issues preventing her from being self-destructive in relationships and her relationship with her brother is more than I'd expect from any non-fictional person, certainly not the Dora I knew. It was a massive character leap and one I was thrilled to read. Now she's in a relationship with Tai and it seems to be going well (early days). That's a huge goal that could improve so many aspects of her life.
Hell, she's responsible for a cat too! Take that life goals, she's got responsibilities too.
If there's one person in the comic who can give someone a talking to on life goals, it's Dora.
As for the whole 'Don't be like Marten' thing I would say that Faye is worse but she's still recovering from a massive trauma so I'm giving her a little slack. Holding down a stable job, relationship and maintaining a wide group of friends probably seemed impossible after her breakdown so she's already come along way. Still, she's got so much potential and verve, she should be grabbing life by the horns and doing what she loves, not coasting at the coffee shop. I think the way Angus brought up the five-year-plan thing was very real, especially as most of my big life conversations have taken place in bed, and I can understand why he disfused the talk with humour after not getting the answer he was hoping for, he needed to recalculate.
I hope tomorrow's strip (or an upcoming strip) features Faye and Marten. I kinda want to see how he'd react to a joke about him being directionless (one of my predictions for the year is that he'd get a proper gig so I'm sorta hoping for that) and that maybe they'd both realise that they've got to do stuff while they're young, even if they work that out during a spat.
anahata:
--- Quote from: Jazzmaster on 08 May 2013, 03:35 ---I'm having a hard time seeing where these two ladies came off making a remark like that, especially after all Marten has done for them
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This hypocrisy may be explained by the fact that both these ladies have rejected Marten in the past, for different reasons. Putting him down like that is a bit of ego protection: pretending to justify that choice, and incidentally masking the truth that in both cases it was their own inadequacy that limited or ended their relationship with Marten, not Marten's lack of direction.
Neko_Ali:
I'm glad that I wasn't the only one really bothered by the last panel. It really is unfair of Dora. Yes, Marten may be sliding through life, but it's not like he doesn't have goals or interests. Faye on the other hand up until now has been pretty much aggressively fighting to not change her place in life. Angus and Dora have been the ones to apply various amounts of pressure to get her to make any changes in her life, so throwing the same attitude back on Marten is pretty unfair.
Redball:
I wonder how motivated Marten would be if he had a girl friend. I'm wondering the same about myself, to be honest.
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: nestingkiwi on 08 May 2013, 01:59 ---[...]
The guy shrugs and says "Meh. it's like this every day."
"Thats what you expect when you buy coffee from the baristacrats.'
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Brilliant!
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