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WCDT: 2796-2800 (22-26 September 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
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--- Quote from: HiFranc on 25 Sep 2014, 23:06 ---I initially squeed but, after reading the comments here, I have come to the conclusion that those suggesting it's a dream are partially right -- I think it is a dream but it's only the last two strips that are the dream. I suspect that, when she said, "Mistakes were made," she realised going back to Marten's was not something she wanted to do that night. She's either going to wake up in her own bed and wonder how much of the night was real or she's having this day dream in front of them and she's going to be brought back to reality when Faye or Marten asks her what she meant by "Don't ever stop."
There are two reasons why I think it's a dream:
* It's out of character for Marten.
* The colour of the walls is wrong.
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Yeah, Marten is strangely smooth. I don't think alcohol alone could do this.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Y on 25 Sep 2014, 23:06 ---I wonder if drunk Marten somehow realizes he's cheating on Emily in some way, or that he's now getting involved with 2 girls yet again.
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Maybe I'm missing something (lord knows, wouldn't be the first time), but how does one cheat on someone with whom one is not sexually, emotionally or romantically involved? I imagine Things will Happen (of one kind or another) and Marten will analyze the crap out of it, because Marten. But he'll eventually get to a healthy place with it all (perhaps via a clue-by-four administered by one of the gang). I think the intern thing is a workaround for someone he may not be that interested in -- and who, bear in mind, we haven't even established is interested in him -- but who he probably just doesn't want to be an asshole about.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: reicreature on 25 Sep 2014, 22:53 ---Claire trusted him pretty deeply right away
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He's lived up to that trust, thus reinforcing it. It's a good foundation for whatever Marten and Claire end up doing.
hedgie:
Honestly, I don't think that things will go into "and then they screw" territory any time soon. If this ship is going to set sail, it needs to get out of the harbour first. Claire has pretty much stated that she's never had a relationship, *and* has anxiety issues (hence the Ativan scrip), so I don't think that in this arc, it'll go beyond maybe some smooching, and ending up like the wedding arc, except where she doesn't switch beds in the middle of the night. It'd make more sense from a storytelling perspective, since it'd provide more time for things to grow, and develop the evolution of not only Marten and Claire, but the other characters in the story as well. And like any good harem anime, even sad Emily would still love her friends.
Jeph could, of course, twist the knife and make things fall apart. But given that for a little while, I hadn't been getting as much out of the comic as I would have liked, no matter which way he takes things, I know that I'm seriously hooked.
As a side-note, when Claire first appeared, she rather annoyed me as a character, since I just saw her as "girl Clinton". I'm glad that she's developed far past that into a much more interesting and endearing character.
HiFranc:
I just had another thought: What if the last two strips form Marten's dream? I can just see Faye asking Marten, "What do you need bathroom breaks from?"
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