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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
Zalder:
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--- Quote from: eschaton on 28 Jan 2015, 17:39 ---And Faye will remain pissed - not so much because of getting fired (either she'll recover, and find a new job, or not, and find different reasons to be miserable) but because when it came down to it, Dora just didn't care about her as a friend as much as she thought.
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I disagree. it may have been Dora's way of trying to show Faye that she does have a problem, and that Dora's not going to enable her by turning a blind eye to her not only breaking the rules, but to her having gotten to the point where she's in a constant state of alcohol haze. Tough love is called that for a reason.
Seriously, just because Dora fired her, doesn't mean she doesn't care for her as a friend. Compartmentalization is a thing.
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As for today's comic, is that a bit of a Southern twang in Faye's dialogue?
"This is the stupidest fuckin' thing I ever done", rather thank "I've ever done". Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.
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Plus I'm predicting we're going to see an apologetic Dora (regardless whether she thinks she was right or wrong for firing Faye) make an appearance by Faye's bedside soon.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 28 Jan 2015, 18:46 ---As for today's comic, is that a bit of a Southern twang in Faye's dialogue?
"This is the stupidest fuckin' thing I ever done", rather thank "I've ever done". Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.
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Nope, that's definitely Southern. A suppressed native dialect or accent often reasserts itself in times of stress. For example, my wife's carefully suppressed Appalachian Mountain dialect resurfaces when she's angry and/or tired.
Omega Entity:
Oh good. I was hoping I wasn't imagining things.
Oilman:
It's been mentioned before that FAYE has certain speech mannerisms which are intended to disguise her Southern accent. I always get the impression she sounds like Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling (Dr Lecter specifically mentions that she does this).
ASB84:
I think it's realistic that the realisation has come quickly. It doesn't mean recovery or resolution will. It just means that this was a wake-up call.
Very powerful strip, once again. The last couple of strips have been a bit of a breather, which was necessary, but I'm glad to see the story is still uninterrupted. I feel there needs to be at least one more strip pushing the story forward and moving on to a new day before we cut to something else.
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 28 Jan 2015, 18:46 ---
--- Quote from: eschaton on 28 Jan 2015, 17:39 ---And Faye will remain pissed - not so much because of getting fired (either she'll recover, and find a new job, or not, and find different reasons to be miserable) but because when it came down to it, Dora just didn't care about her as a friend as much as she thought.
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I disagree. It may have been Dora's way of trying to show Faye that she does have a problem, and that Dora's not going to enable her by turning a blind eye to her not only breaking the rules, but to her having gotten to the point where she's in a constant state of alcohol haze. Tough love is called that for a reason.
Seriously, just because Dora fired her, doesn't mean she doesn't care for her as a friend. Compartmentalization is a thing.
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On top of that, caring and compassion has its limits, particularly when the other person has crossed the line. Faye has likewise taken her friendship with Dora for granted, in breaking her trust and her one hard-line rule, in turn abusing the huge amount of leeway that Dora grants her and other CoD employees. Even if she didn't do so maliciously, even though she does obviously have a problem, that's not an all-conquering trump card that excuses any and all wrongdoing on her part. Faye put her friend in a difficult position; that's not showing a lot of consideration to Dora, who does have a business to run after all.
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