Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
SomeCanadianWeirdo:
I suspect how you perceive Steve depends on when you started reading QC. Or any other character for that matter.
Endellion:
I started reading somewhere in the 1400's and I always considered Steve to be a main character...although I read the previous comics from the start in rapid speed (my at the time gf was reading it so I had to as well)
TheEvilDog:
You know, I just realised - everyone who has been coming up as to how Faye will go off the rails, seems to have forgotten one key aspect of Faye's personality: she's a fighter.
I wouldn't be surprised if rock bottom involves Faye's pugnacious predilections landing her in trouble with the law. A night in the drunk tank or being stood in a court might shock her enough to snap out of this, or it might push her deeper into the bottle.
Conzy:
--- Quote from: Aimless on 22 Jan 2015, 13:19 ---I find it very difficult to really hate someone on a personal level when that someone is a fictional character created and written by someone trying to tell a story. There are characters I dislike seeing, but I have a hard time forgetting that they do not themselves have much in the way of agency and that makes it very difficult for me to let myself fill my head and my heart with the purest most malign kind of hatred. It just feels weird and fucked-up I guess.
I thought I'd dislike the coming arc but I think I'm going to enjoy seeing Jeph's take on Faye's descent into drunkenness.
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I don't think it's necessarily weird or fucked up to hate a fictional character. Now, let me be clear, there is a point where that goes too far. But being rational and saying 'in the world that character resides, based on his or her actions, I hate them' isn't anything unheard of. In fact, it's what fiction has done for a long time. Think of literature, I had to read 'The Catcher in the Rye' while at school. On talking to people about the book, one of the most common responses was that people hated Holden Caulfield. That was the exact word a lot of people used. I thought it was an entirely reasonable response, even though I felt differently. My reaction to that was 'and?' Just because you love or hate a specific character isn't indicative of the merit of the work, which is the most important thing. I have reasons for liking and not liking certain characters in QC and I will readily admit that Faye is my least favourite character person-wise. By that I mean if I were to meet someone with Faye's characteristics in real life I would do my best to have nothing to do with them, which one could define as hatred. However, as an excellent, well developed, entertaining and believable character, I would rank her among the best, if not the best in QC, and I salute the writer for it.
Aimless, I'm fairly sure you meant the melding fiction and reality type hatred that is conveyed sometimes (I always (wrongly, probably) assume a degree of hyperbole) and this isn't really aimed (sorry, horrible pun) at you, but quoting your post gave me an easy way to convey some points that have been rattling around my head since seeing views on characters by people (myself included) on these forums. Woo, that was a long sentence.
Edit: I think this line of thought can be useful when thinking about and discussing the events of the comics in terms of who is right and wrong. In my relatively short time on th forums, I have seen many posts (to take Faye as an example) making up ridiculous excuses as to why she is at fault in situation A. At the same time, I've seen many posts making up ridiculous excuses as to why it's ALL her fault in situation B. What I'm basically saying is that I think it's okay to hate a fictional character, but don't let it cloud your judgment.
Orkboy:
--- Quote from: Conzy on 22 Jan 2015, 17:47 ---
--- Quote from: Aimless on 22 Jan 2015, 13:19 ---I find it very difficult to really hate someone on a personal level when that someone is a fictional character
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I don't think it's necessarily weird or fucked up to hate a fictional character.
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