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WCDT: 2636-2640 (Feb 10 - 14 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread

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KOK:

--- Quote from: Jazzmaster on 16 Feb 2014, 13:37 ---
Would depressed really be the word?

I think he's doing just fine, but perhaps lacks that 5-10% extra "drive" to get him closer to where he wants to be.  He's perhaps on the cusp of personal success, but isn't quite there yet, and because of it he feels more inclined to dwell on events (such as the one-night-stand with Delilah) instead of just shrugging it off and moving on.

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And where does he want to be? Does he even know?

Is it cold in here?:
Full-time musician.

KOK:
He says somewhere that he has come to realise that that is not going to happen.

Method of Madness:
It might.

Mlle Germain:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Feb 2014, 19:07 ---Robots are people too, and one chosen for stability and empathy by the adoption agency could be better for him that the slowly recovering emotional cripples who surround him now. It's noble that he helps fix them but he may be using that as a distraction from confronting what he's going to do with his own life.

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You make it sound like Marten has sacrificed his own mental health in caring for the "emotional cripples" and like being a therapist for them is the whole extent of Marten's relationships with his friends. And that is just not true. Sure, the friendship with Marten and with each other has helped the others to get some of their psychological issues under control (among other things like therapy), but it is still ordinary good friendship from which Marten has also hugely profited (as he himself admits) - just look at the first comic strips and compare him to that. I would say that for most of the comic, Marten has been happy overall.
Also, I doubt another robot friend would help him more in finding his life's purpose than his current friends. I thought the whole point was that Marten should do something himself, not wait for others (humans or robots) to figure out what he should do. If Marten wants therapy to help with that, he should go to a professional therapist.

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