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WCDT: 2440-2444 (6-10 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
KOK:
As I see it, Angus does answer the question. If he had said "with you", Faye might have felt bad for not saying that. So he phrases it in a humorous manner.
I don't think he was fishing for "with you" from Faye. If so, his follow up questions are very strange. When asked, he can not very well say "In New York". After what Faye has just said, that would imply "with or without you".
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Madmartigan on 06 May 2013, 10:44 ---
[I'm actually surprised they've gone this long without having any kind of fight. Not that this as regressed to a fight yet, but they've been the "perfect couple" as it were to date. Bout time they had some drama in their relationship]
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On screen, they had the toilet seat fight, and the argument about music that Marten brought to a halt. Off screen, it's all but certain there have been others.
That was a deeply insightful point you made about Faye's need for a close circle of friends. Her answer still made me unhappy for her. Jeph has said that CoD pays barely enough to live on. It's not the sort of thing to make permanent, unless you're working for someone near retirement from whom you might inherit the shop, or are pursuing baristaness/baristahood/baristiture as your life's ars gratia artis.
(Is Coffee of Doom a baristocracy?)
westrim:
I read as Angus's response to her initial blowoff as "you have so much potential and I want to see you achieve it."
Her answer doesn't indicate that her friends are the reason, so we can't assume that. All her answer really suggests is the recurring theme of her being aimless and unmotivated.
The assumption that he asked out of the blue in the middle of the night has come up several times, but we have no idea what preceded this.
Her face looks more like "TMI!" than "PANIC!"
Interviewer questions about the future and weaknesses are more about looking for how you can turn things around- when they ask about the future, they want to know what you'll do in the present, and they ask about your weaknesses to see how you overcome them.
No, CoD is a dictatorship with baristasants.
TimO:
--- Quote from: Madmartigan on 06 May 2013, 10:44 ---... Hanners, Marten, and Dora are basically family to Faye. Really tight, close family and after that mess with her father, the seed of loss in her doesn't wanna be too far from them ... Faye seems to like comfort and familiarity now ...
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Exactly, Faye hasn't particularly had an easy time of it, with her father especially, so the relative current stability, and closeness is likely to be something she'll value, and doesn't want to lose, even if she could be making more money. This may not be an entirely conscious thought, but it's likely that the thought of loosing any of that (and she doesn't need to move, or change friends) is not going to generate a positive response, although it may start her thinking about things.
The others in the story aren't necessarily paragons of financial stability either, Marten and Marigold both have made significant expenditures, albeit on Momo's new chassis in Marigold's case which is slightly more sensible than Marten's instruments.
--- Quote from: Madmartigan on 06 May 2013, 10:44 ---... And having that conversation in the middle of the night randomly ... Anyway, she'd probably irked because she wanted to know what Angus really wanted 5 years from now and he made a joke instead. ...
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That was spectacularly stupid of Angus to refuse to answer her, when she replied in a reasonable, if not ideal way, to his question, and he then choose to make light of it when she asked the same thing.
--- Quote from: Madmartigan on 06 May 2013, 10:44 ---... I'm actually surprised they've gone this long without having any kind of fight ...
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They did start off with some minor fighting in CoD, albeit being Angus' way to introduce himself to Faye, and her natural tendency to be sharp towards all of the customers, and especially any who tried to be clever back at her.
Having said that, most people manage to occasionally do stupid things in relationships, and phrase things in a less than optimal fashion. I certainly have, and I'm sure most of us on here have as well. Doing and saying stupid things, especially when lying in bed, and possibly not thinking quite as clearly as when fully awake, is just one of those facts of life, and which you normally regret later with a "why did I say that?". It also makes for a more exciting storyline.
Interviewers use questions like "Where do you want to be in five years" and "What are your weaknesses?" because they should invoke a certain sort of thoughtful response, although this sort of question is used so much now, that all it really does is demonstrate whether you've planned for the interview by coming up with a suitable answer prior to the interview (I know I would). It's not really a useful question any more, and just suggests an interviewer without much originality in their planning.
TimO:
--- Quote from: TimO on 06 May 2013, 05:20 ---Back at 2006 Faye's hair is too long to easily see her ears, the next time we see her in 2016, it's cut slightly differently, and we can see her ears, and still can since it's continued to be styled similarly. ...
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Someone posted a link to 1199 in another thread, and Faye has the double piercing in her right ear there as well, clearly visible in the second panel, so it has been around for quite a while.
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