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WCDT: 2796-2800 (22-26 September 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Jazzmaster:
--- Quote from: neurocase on 27 Sep 2014, 00:07 ---
--- Quote from: NilsO on 26 Sep 2014, 23:50 ---I miss Emily. I guess Marten also will start thinking about her when he gets sober.
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I can't pretend to have any understanding of your certainty that he feels anything beyond the platonic for Emily, or vice versa. Not taking a dig, I honestly just can't grasp it.
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Well Marten is not really a guy with a lot of options, so to be perfectly honest he's less likely to turn down ANY girl who gives him any form of attention.
To put it another way: remember when Claire and Marten went to the wedding and he was all like OMG CLAIRE WAS SNUGGLING ME, but he had no indication of real attraction to her? Same thing seemed to happen after Emily gave him a peck on the cheek, and he even gave the same speech as Claire. The one about intern-librarian relationships being a bad idea.
TL;DR people make decisions and rationalize them later, not the other way around. So we'll see what happens.
reicreature:
--- Quote from: Rghfrgl on 26 Sep 2014, 21:35 --- He's not said anything, but I think Jeph's problem with Gabby is he made a stereotype sassy black woman. Not because that was what he set out to do, but because he can't help but sass.
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I thought the problem was that she was too much like Faye.
Someone before this post also mentioned that Gabby is kind of a level headed straight man to the intern comedy trio and that can be less interesting to write.
And someone before even that mentioned how Dale was kind of a background character for a long time before he became a fairly significant character.
At any rate, Gabby might come back later or become a spy and disappear for two years
Smashwidget:
--- Quote from: Jazzmaster on 27 Sep 2014, 00:11 ---
--- Quote from: neurocase on 27 Sep 2014, 00:07 ---
--- Quote from: NilsO on 26 Sep 2014, 23:50 ---I miss Emily. I guess Marten also will start thinking about her when he gets sober.
--- End quote ---
I can't pretend to have any understanding of your certainty that he feels anything beyond the platonic for Emily, or vice versa. Not taking a dig, I honestly just can't grasp it.
--- End quote ---
Well Marten is not really a guy with a lot of options, so to be perfectly honest he's less likely to turn down ANY girl who gives him any form of attention.
To put it another way: remember when Claire and Marten went to the wedding and he was all like OMG CLAIRE WAS SNUGGLING ME, but he had no indication of real attraction to her? Same thing seemed to happen after Emily gave him a peck on the cheek, and he even gave the same speech as Claire. The one about intern-librarian relationships being a bad idea.
TL;DR people make decisions and rationalize them later, not the other way around. So we'll see what happens.
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As I once saw on the Wikipedia article on rationalization, "Humans are rationalizing creatures, not rational ones." -some famous philosopher guy or other, I pay zero attention to names :psyduck:
reicreature:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 27 Sep 2014, 00:00 ---Many people's complaints about the limited appearance of some characters might (just might) be lessened if Jeph wrote ten strips a day...
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I'm just trying to convince Jeph to show us what Gabby is doing for Monday's update.
What?
It worked for Steve fans.
Detachable Felix:
Mein Gott. :psyduck:
When I last saw this thread, it was 8 pages in. I am not reading back through all these replies.
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