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WCDT: 2811-2815 (13-17 October 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Method of Madness:
The link was posted to my "would Sven take advantage of a drunk person" question.

Thrillho:
I know. But I am being pedantic.

MooskiNet:
May has opinions about pedants.  :laugh:

TRVA123:
yeah, I think Sven (and Dora and Faye) get unreasonably villianized by people.

I don't think anyone is arguing that Sven is a model person, but I also don't think we should cast him as the villian of the comic. If for no other reason than Jeph is a more sophisticate writer than that.

Lets look at Sven's relationship with Dora. When they were children it was rocky due to sibling rivalry, as they got older they reached terms that they could associate by. That is why Sven goes to Dora's coffee shop and not to one of the other hundreds of coffee shops in that town. Sven also doesn't set out to seduce any of Dora's employees, even when Raven is literally throwing herself at him. Sven hooks up with Faye one they become friends on their own terms. He has a relationship with Faye that is no longer solely  "she is an employee of my sister". In short, Sven did respect Dora's "no sex with my employees" boundary until he got to a point in his relationship with Faye where that boundary would not reasonably apply. *note, Sven also did not make the first move with Faye.
When Dora is having trouble with Marten, Sven helps Marten out with some insight. Sven lets Dora crash at his place after the breakup and helps her move when she gets a new place.

In short, I would say that, to the best of his ability, Sven is being a good and supportive brother to Dora. From that perspective, Dora cutting Sven out of her life seems an overreaction.

I honestly think Dora deciding to cut Sven out of her life is an extension of the control issues Dora has. Sven isn't respecting the limits that she tries to place on his behavior, (like when he takes Hanners on a date) and he is developing in ways that challenge her mental image of him (he hasn't hooked up with anyone in months). She can no longer control him and she can't predict his behavior, so she doesn't want to associate with him.

Now this is an incredibly harsh take on her cutting him out of her life. I realize that I am not giving Dora very much benefit of the doubt. But choosing to cut your brother out of your life is incredibly harsh, and I think that to do that Dora would have to have an incredibly harsh (yet justified in her subconscious) reason for it.

A more charitable explanation might be that Dora is merely trying to cut any influence from her life that gives her unneeded stress, and Sven's drama with Faye is certainly unneeded stress for Dora.

but that means that Dora would end a relationship with a family member to avoid stress.

DSL:

--- Quote from: MooskiNet on 13 Oct 2014, 09:12 ---May has opinions about pedants.  :laugh:

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From that bit of dialogue we can also guess she doesn't run on iOS or Windows.

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