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WCDT: 2806-2810 (6th - 10th October 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Honkytonk:
Why can't tomorrow just come and save us from all this supposition?
I can't remember the last time I was looking forward to another edition of any comic, ever. I just hope to god it's a Steve eating cereal one because if it isn't I am going to throw the toys out of the pram.
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 06 Oct 2014, 11:51 ---
--- Quote from: McFace on 06 Oct 2014, 11:03 ---I'm not sure where people are getting this whole "shaking her hand" think from, or that his hand grasp is in no way an intimate gesture.
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If you look at a google image search for 'handshake' then you might see the same similarities that I do.
Sure...it's still intimate, but two hands by themselves in that orientation serve as sort of a rorschach when isolated. There's a delightful ambiguity.
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A reasonable assessment all told however you could argue the angle is terrible for a handshake for one, but two and far more important we have an EXCELLENT reason to assume he is not shaking her hand. Because that makes NO SENSE whatsoever in ANY social context vaguely like the one they're currently in. A handshake at the end of the conversation? Maybe though I would see that as incredibly awkward, but a nervous night after "X" (X being romantic something or another between two previously single individuals) occurring conversation when one party is far more calm than the other, the social cue of the day is NOT a handshake. Especially between socially well adjusted individuals with a previously established close relationship. However, holding their hand in a reassuring manner, no matter what follows conversationally makes much more sense. So if we follow standard North American social behavior (and both Claire and Martenfriend are pretty socially well adjusted) and Occam's Razor Marten is not going for a handshake.
FunkyTuba:
Well I guess I just got told.
Now go look at some worst cats.
Arkantos:
--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 06 Oct 2014, 16:40 ---Well I guess I just got told.
Now go look at some worst cats.
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I'm not surprised something like that exists, but still, what even.
downtowneddie:
I'm not in the handshake camp. (Oh, hi, new person here. Longtime reader of Q.C., new to join this forum.) Basic contextual clues would lead us to believe Marten is reaching out to hold Claire's hand, not to shake it. Nicely said, GarandMarine.
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