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WCDT: 2801-2805 (29th September - 3rd October) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
eschaton:
I'm still not liking this. Not because I don't think they could work as a couple, or any issues with trans people, but because I don't find Martin's behavior so far in character.
1. There's been plenty of foreshadowing that Claire likes Marten. There hasn't been even an inkling until last week that Marten felt anything for Claire. It just came totally out of left field.
2. No matter how drunk Martin is, his actions are totally out of character. He cannot be smooth. He's a "talk" guy, not an "action" guy.
If I had to compare it to anything, I'd say it seems (with a lot more drunkenness) to Marten's reaction to Dora's interest way back when. She liked him, and when approached, he was like "sure, girl, whatever!" I think Marten would basically happily nod along into a relationship with any of his female friends. His aimlessless in his professional life and his personal life are symptoms of the same basic attitude.
Still, that does not explain to me how an inebriated Marten was able to actually make a move on a lady without being awkward in the slightest. That's just not Marten.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: eschaton on 29 Sep 2014, 13:29 ---I'm still not liking this. Not because I don't think they could work as a couple, or any issues with trans people, but because I don't find Martin's behavior so far in character.
1. There's been plenty of foreshadowing that Claire likes Marten. There hasn't been even an inkling until last week that Marten felt anything for Claire. It just came totally out of left field.
2. No matter how drunk Martin is, his actions are totally out of character. He cannot be smooth. He's a "talk" guy, not an "action" guy.
If I had to compare it to anything, I'd say it seems (with a lot more drunkenness) to Martin's reaction to Dora's interest way back when. She liked him, and when approached, he was like "sure, girl, whatever!" I think Marten would basically happily nod along into a relationship with any of his female friends. His aimlessless in his professional life and his personal life are symptoms of the same basic attitude.
Still, that does not explain to me how an inebriated Marten was able to actually make a move on a lady without being awkward in the slightest. That's just not Marten.
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I chalk it up to character development/growth. I think at some level, he realizes that what he's doing right now isn't working out all that well for him, so he's trying something a bit out of his comfort zone, or at least different from his usual MO. If you take the last few strips in tandem with his and Claire's last conversation in the library, it seems like he's finally catching on that he's got to make some changes.
Whether he makes the right, or most productive, ones... well, that remains to be seen. But this looks like a step in the right direction, and isn't quite that out of the blue.
ETA: Even people who tend to be socially or romantically awkward can still have moments of smooth, even if accidentally. I speak from experience.
Barmymoo:
Maybe Marten's uncharacteristic smoothness is an indicator of a much higher compatibility between him and Claire than between Marten and any of the other people he's been involved with?
DSL:
Another possibility: Marten's not trying to be smooth, or at least wasn't. It was just some drunken playfulness, which I am given to understand sometimes happens between people who feel comfortable around one another and with inhibitions lower than the norm for them. Will this lead to closer closeness? Will Claire decide "mistakes were made"? (I ask that you imagine me saying all this in the voice of Bill Dozier) Tune in tomorrow, same TEH time, same TEH channel!
MooskiNet:
--- Quote ---Still, that does not explain to me how an inebriated Marten was able to actually make a move on a lady without being awkward in the slightest. That's just not Marten.
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I get ya, but I guess on one of the (several) re-readings of the events leading up to today's comic, I saw his Mom's recent speech about taking chances as slight foreshadowing. He may be learning.
It happens. :claireface:
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