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WCDT: 2776-2780 (25-29 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
plusorminus:
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Sure. She has admitted she has a rivalry with her brother, but only because he lives an easy life and she can't stand it. Of the hand full of times they've been shown together in the comic, how many were her threatening to do harm to him? The majority that I can remember. If anyone has been toxic in the brother-sister relationship it's been her. Yeah, he's acted like a scum bag to women, but not to his sister. If anything, she needs to go have a long talk with her dad about how he treats women because her brother does the same.
How long did she fuck with Marten's mind while they were in a relationship? It finally took him having enough of it to break it off with her. She threatened Faye into going to therapy and it took Faye doing the same thing to get Dora to do it. Marigold is barely more then spank bank material to her since she acts more like a dirty old man around her then her own girlfriend. Lets face it, Faye is the only one really able to call her on her shit because Faye is the only one that could and would be more violent the Dora, but at least Faye has made an honest attempt (in the comics I've read) to fix her shit. Is Dora even going to therapy anymore?
I admit, it's only a comic character, but Dora is written in such a way that she can't stand it when other people are happy.
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I pretty much vehemently disagree with your entire analysis on Dora.
But I'm genuinely puzzled on the bolded. She has found out that her brother, who seriously hurt Faye once before, has now attempted out of whatever selfish, fucked-up reasons, to interpose himself between Faye and Angus. Sven probably doesn't know about the issue with the possibility of long-distance, but he damn sure knows that Faye has been seeing someone for a very long time. Dora, knowing about the precariousness of the situation and about Faye and Sven's history, is understandably pissed.
I think to suggest she's toxic and has stopped her therapy is very short-sighted. And to suggest that she never likes to see anyone happy is just ... weird. She was wrong in much of her relationship with Marten, I'll grant you that. They were ill-suited and she had major emotional problems. It happens. But they are now friends. There is nothing that suggests she is anything but extremely happy with Tai. She has barely mentioned Marigold, and not at all since Marigold started seeing Dale, so not sure what the "spank bank" comments mean.
Sven has swanned around being a major dickhead most of his life and feeling like "Hey, I'm cute, young, and rich so why the fuck not"? Why not ask where his intern, who seemed other than Dora and Faye, to get Sven to see what a shitstain he often was? Why not ask what fucked-upness has taken place in Sven that he not only decides to "win" the girl from her boyfriend, but gets pissed because he thinks he deserved some sort of stupid "The Notebook"-like ending?
Dora is probably realizing that she is getting to a better place, via therapy, her relationship with Tai, the rebuilding of her friendship with Marten, and the continuing success of her business. Now she realizes Sven is probably never going to change. He is always going to carry himself like the Golden Boy, throwing tantrums when he doesn't feel he's getting his due. I'd cut him off, too.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 24 Aug 2014, 20:16 ---Wait, that doesn't make sense! An object in orbit can only be seen at dawn and dusk, otherwise its either in the earth's shadow or is overwhelmed by the sun. Unless it's big and far away like the moon...
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Yeah, but Hanners's dad is really good at science.
plusorminus:
--- Quote from: Jazzmaster on 24 Aug 2014, 20:19 ---
My thoughts exactly. Dora's just being dramatic and making it all about her, which is extremely annoying.
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Er, no. This is her brother, not some stranger on the street who sassed Faye. She's telling her parents precisely because it's not super easy to just cut off a member of your family. She's allowed to have a last straw, too. This could be it.
I'm sort of weirded out by the Dora hate on this board.
Jazzmaster:
--- Quote from: plusorminus on 24 Aug 2014, 20:22 ---
--- Quote from: Jazzmaster on 24 Aug 2014, 20:19 ---
My thoughts exactly. Dora's just being dramatic and making it all about her, which is extremely annoying.
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Er, no. This is her brother, not some stranger on the street who sassed Faye. She's telling her parents precisely because it's not super easy to just cut off a member of your family. She's allowed to have a last straw, too. This could be it.
I'm sort of weirded out by the Dora hate on this board.
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I have siblings of my own and sometimes they do stupid things. When they do stupid things I don't act out about it, I don't get incredibly angry, and I certainly don't make any declarations involving the removal of "toxic people" from my life, when they do kinda-shitty things out of nowhere, to other people. Of course it works both ways; I've never had a sibling get totally angry with me and threaten to cut me out of their life because I did something dumb.
When is the last time Dora and Sven had any serious interaction with each other? It'd be one thing if he was constantly around her and doing "toxic" things to her and others, but that's not what is going on at all. Really, they've just been doing their own thing for quite a while now, and been fairly separated. What does Dora have to be so damn insecure about in the first place, when she's already running a solid business of her own and has a steady, loving girlfriend? Has something else been going on that's yet to be revealed in the comic, perhaps? Perhaps the business not doing so well, or her relationship with Tai is rocky, at least something sensible that's not "my brother is kind of an idiot and I feel the need to make everything he does into something that affects me personally somehow"?
I don't hate Dora, but I cannot, for the life of me, wrap my head around why she's acting this way. I can't.
creatureshock:
--- Quote from: plusorminus on 24 Aug 2014, 20:22 ---Er, no. This is her brother, not some stranger on the street who sassed Faye. She's telling her parents precisely because it's not super easy to just cut off a member of your family. She's allowed to have a last straw, too. This could be it.
I'm sort of weirded out by the Dora hate on this board.
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The only reason I have an issue with Dora is because she sticks herself into situations she has no business in. And this is one of them. She needs to let Sven and Faye be. She is going to cause a shitstorm that will hit Faye, Angus, Marten, and probably Steve and Cosette will probably get a bit of splatter as well. Faye is going to be pissed at both Sven and Dora. Sven is probably going to do something stupid. And Marten will end up dealing with all of it plus Dora's shit because Tai will be asking him for advice on how to keep her calm.
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