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WCDT December 15-19, 2014 (2855-2859)
Natswash:
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--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 19 Dec 2014, 07:55 ---I really don't see that, Mooski. I mean the theory could be valid except we've seen that this is how she treats Clinton all the time. To her, he is her annoying brother to be tolerated, even if he is really weird. And he's 'really fun to pick on'. I don't see this as any different that she's ever been towards him. She just can't see him any other way than through her own personal lens, so the idea that someone might be interested in him romantically is just to weird for her.
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True, she's been generally nasty to him in all but a few of the interactions they've had, but I'm seeing a "nyah nyah nyah" aspect to it that didn't exist before - panel two of yesterday's comic probably has a lot to do with it.
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Jeph could still be working out their relationship to his satisfaction
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
Eh. Nobody hates each other quite like siblings. I don't think I'll ever be able to look at my brother without having, in the back of my mind, every moment he wrestled me to the ground. Every moment he got away scot free. Every moment he forced a choice on me through being stubborn. Every moment he made into a competition when it wasn't. Every moment he confounded me with pareidolia (he's falling into a the-world-will-end-soon mindset).
Frankly, if I ever have a family, he won't be allowed to see them. The past haunts the present.
bhtooefr:
Also, regarding the comments that Claire is being hypocritical by height-cracking on someone the same height as her... There are differing societal implications to their respective heights due to their different genders. Claire is short, but not abnormally so for a woman (and her dating a taller partner is also societally normal for her gender), whereas Clinton is abnormally short, and Emily seems to be abnormally tall combined with it being societally abnormal for a man to date a taller woman.
That doesn't make it right for Claire to do that (it's still punching down), but it's not exactly hypocritical.
Emperor Norton:
I honestly don't see either of them as being problematically nasty towards the other. Just seems like normal siblings, especially ones that haven't lived apart for a significant period of time. I don't know if Clinton lives at home still, but even if he doesn't, he would have only been out of the house at most like 3 years, and we know that Claire still lives at home (I'd bet that Clinton still lives at home as well). They've never moved to the point where they have enough personal space to experience not seeing each other every day. That is usually where you start seeing your sibling as less "annoying little bother".
questionablydiscontent:
Consider a drama about an ex-fed trying to capture a modern-day Charles Manson.
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