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WCDT 5 - 9 January 2015 (Strips 2868-2872)
BenRG:
I think that we're getting to the crux of Faye's heartbreak. She thought she was in love with Angus. She did and still does feel that she owed it to him to try. However, in the end, she's come to realise that she wasn't in love with him. Maybe she was in love with the idea of being in love with him but that's all. Because of that, in the end, she just couldn't prioritise her relationship with him or even his feelings over the place that has become her home and her friends that are closer to her than her family.
This, I think, is the really shitty part of it, for her. She's hurt Angus (a perfectly nice guy who she really quite liked) because, in the end, she was fooling herself about her own feelings. That is why she's drinking: right now, she feels so guilty that she can't live with herself whilst sober.
This has always been Jeph's triumph as a writer. He can go from a completely sophomoric joke about condoms hidden in a library to a profound bit of pathos about feelings, self-deceit and the minefield that are human relationships. What's more, he's done this so smoothly that it isn't even slightly jarring!
--- Quote from: Kugai on 08 Jan 2015, 13:21 ---#2872 - Oh grud, this conversation with Pintsize make sense - The World is coming to an end!!! :o
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I think that she feels safe to bare her soul to Pintsize because she doubts that he has the emotional depth to understand (notice her parting crack about Pintsize regretting he hasn't got a butt). However, I strongly suspect that she might be underestimating him.
Endellion:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2015, 13:48 ---I think that she feels safe to bare her soul to Pintsize because she doubts that he has the emotional depth to understand (notice her parting crack about Pintsize regretting he hasn't got a butt). However, I strongly suspect that she might be underestimating him.
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I think Jeph said it best: "Pintsize has hidden depths. Unfortunately they are full of porn."
osaka:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2015, 13:48 ---I think that we're getting to the crux of Faye's heartbreak. She thought she was in love with Angus. She did and still does feel that she owed it to him to try. However, in the end, she's come to realise that she wasn't in love with him. Maybe she was in love with the idea of being in love with him but that's all. Because of that, in the end, she just couldn't prioritise her relationship with him or even his feelings over the place that has become her home and her friends that are closer to her than her family.
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Called it.
On Pintsize's depth, it IS surprising but it wasn't alien to us. We've had a look into the mind of Pintsize when discussing his "job" with Momo. It's not that he can't be of help or that he isn't wise, it's just that he doesn't give advice when it isn't needed or asked for. I'm pretty sure there was a saying for that in Spain but I can't remember it.
--- Quote from: Endellion on 08 Jan 2015, 14:09 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2015, 13:48 ---I think that she feels safe to bare her soul to Pintsize because she doubts that he has the emotional depth to understand (notice her parting crack about Pintsize regretting he hasn't got a butt). However, I strongly suspect that she might be underestimating him.
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I think Jeph said it best: "Pintsize has hidden depths. Unfortunately they are full of porn."
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Given his love for hentai and tentacle porn, he might have porn of the plot-filled persuasion.
Rghfrgl:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2015, 13:48 ---I think that we're getting to the crux of Faye's heartbreak. She thought she was in love with Angus. She did and still does feel that she owed it to him to try. However, in the end, she's come to realise that she wasn't in love with him. Maybe she was in love with the idea of being in love with him but that's all.
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The 3rd and 4th panels are making me question that. Knowing what you really want but not being able/willing to do what you need to. If breaking up was what she really wanted, well she DID do that. I think she wanted to go with him. And I think maybe it's more than just about being with him, but moving forward with life. She keeps working at the coffee shop and living with Marten and one day she's 40, Marten goes off and gets married(To C...*gack* Not now shipper) and Dora sells out to Starbucks.
It could just be a poorly worded set of lines about coming to terms with breaking up, but I think she wants to put herself on the bus.
Which makes me wonder what happens in that situation. Since you know, major character and all.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2015, 13:48 ---However, in the end, she's come to realise that she wasn't in love with him.
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I don't agree with this at all.
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