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WCDT: 2811-2815 (13-17 October 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
aphanisis81:
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--- Quote from: lot_jockey on 13 Oct 2014, 20:03 ---Shouldn't Angus be responsible for finding the new roommate (not Marigold)? Obviously, it's important that Marigold like this new roommate. Regardless, Angus should be paying rent until he finds someone to take over the lease, or the lease terminates.
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As someone who was in that position.. that's garbage. I had to leave an apartment before because of a bad situation with my then room mate. They tried to stick me with paying half the rent for an apartment I wasn't living in (and had the police report to back up) until my ex room mate found someone else. Funny how she really didn't go looking until I refused to pay it. I seriously doubt that Angus could afford to pay half the rent there and rent on a place in The City anyway. Though if he could it would be a way to reassure Faye and a place for him to come back and visit her in. But that seems unlikely, and he could just as easily visit and stay with Faye for a weekend. If he's a nice guy (he is) then sure helping Marigold find a new room mate would be good. Besides he is her friend not just some random person he roomed with. I don't think he would leave her in the lurch. But to expect him to pay half rent on a place he isn't living in is just to far beyond nice or reasonable.
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All that matters is the terms and time range of their lease. If it's long-term with a substantial amount of time left, then he's legally obligated to continue paying or find a sub-letter. Otherwise, he truly would be "breaking the lease" and his landlord could extract the money legally. It sounds like they have a month to month, though, in which case paying next month's rent and leaving it at that would be exactly the right thing to do.
It does occur to me, though, that when we first learned about Angus and Marigold's situation, Angus says that he "heard she was looking for a roommate" which could be taken to mean that she already had the lease in her name, and she just lets him live there and pay half the rent without being on the lease. In that case, it could be pretty shitty of him to bail out.
Realistically though, given the state of Massachusetts housing, especially in a hip college town like Northampton, all it would take is a Craigslist ad and they'd have a their pick of new roommates within a day.
BenRG:
Another good story-telling reason to have Clinton move in with Marigold. We know he has a creepy sort-of-man crush on Hannelore. Who is Marigold's best girl friend? Hannelore! We know that he can't come to see her at Coffee of Doom anymore because Dora has him hosed down when he starts getting creepy. So, it would be an interesting way to see how his feelings and behaviour has developed.
IMO, it will be a case of Hannelore coming over to see Marigold and, whist they're doing girl things together, Clinton will simply sit on the couch and creepily worship Hanners from afar until Momo tasers him.
--- Quote from: aphanisis81 on 14 Oct 2014, 01:28 ---Realistically though, given the state of Massachusetts housing, especially in a hip college town like Northampton, all it would take is a Craigslist ad and they'd have a their pick of new roommates within a day.
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Suddenly, I have a mental image of Marigold, Momo and Angus as an interview panel, vetting each applicant as if they had applied for a job with a blue chip finance house.
aphanisis81:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Oct 2014, 01:32 ---Another good story-telling reason to have Clinton move in with Marigold. We know he has a creepy sort-of-man crush on Hannelore. Who is Marigold's best girl friend? Hannelore! We know that he can't come to see her at Coffee of Doom anymore because Dora has him hosed down when he starts getting creepy. So, it would be an interesting way to see how his feelings and behaviour has developed.
IMO, it will be a case of Hannelore coming over to see Marigold and, whist they're doing girl things together, Clinton will simply sit on the couch and creepily worship Hanners from afar until Momo tasers him.
--- Quote from: aphanisis81 on 14 Oct 2014, 01:28 ---Realistically though, given the state of Massachusetts housing, especially in a hip college town like Northampton, all it would take is a Craigslist ad and they'd have a their pick of new roommates within a day.
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Suddenly, I have a mental image of Marigold, Momo and Angus as an interview panel, vetting each applicant as if they had applied for a job with a blue chip finance house.
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It wouldn't be unrealistic. The MA market is tight as hell and NoHo has some really serious shithole apartments for rent near downtown. I mean like slums. A halfway decent place popping up would be like catnip.
PLGRN8R:
As for Marigold's new room-mate, in descending order of likelihood (from my perspective, and without the idea of brand-new characters):
1. Dale/May. No, not a good idea, but they're both naive and completely nuts over one another. Umm... Dale and Marigold that is. May and Momo will need time to warm up a little more.
2. Clinton. He's a character we don't see much, and with the SS Clairten setting sail, his traffic across our monitors is sure to increase, and this would be a nice setup for it. Additionally, he clearly has a job at the company that produces AnthroPCs, so his finances are steady. This could set up some return jealousy from Dale towards Marigold, allowing more drama and friction.
3. Claire. Assuming she DOES make money at the library, and that the Angus/Marigold residence is clearly not too far a jaunt from CoD or the Marten/Faye apartment, so it would allow for faster commutes to see Marten.
4. Amir. I'm starting to stretch here, but I don't think he likes living in that practice space too much. It'd be a good way to give him more screen time and to set up for more jam sessions with Marten and co, which would be nice, but he'd have almost no dynamic with Marigold.
5. Padma. Again, stretching, REAL far this time. Padma left at almost exactly strip 2100. And while some people say she's been gone about 6 months, people ALSO say that's how long Faye and Angus have been together, so it could be longer. The time between her leaving and Marten hooking up with Delilah was about 525 strips, and Marten seemed to be going through serious intimacy withdrawal, so it had probably been around six months by THEN. If we extrapolate that it's around late August right now in QC, then her grandma may have passed away 2-3 months ago and she decided to return to Northampton, because she liked her life there. Also, that would set up HUGE drama for the SS Clairten. Could you imagine Claire's insecurities if a previous lover of Marten's rolls back into town and starts hanging around him? Also, if she gets her job back, then Marten would hear about it through Jim, seeing as Jim is now dating Marten's mom, and probably knows that Marten was close with Padma before she left.
Personally, I'm hoping for 2 or 4, just to give them more "screen"-time, but yeah. I think 5 would have the biggest "splash", but is the least likely.
bhtooefr:
Hang on, do we have Marten's address, though?
Because here's where Claire lives: http://goo.gl/maps/6p6Y6
Edit: 144 Dwight, although Google's putting that in an undefined location in an industrial area of Hatfield, MA (north of Northampton), not Northampton itself.
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