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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
ybtlamw:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 28 Jan 2015, 21:28 ---Insightful. Is it established that Dora knew about the emergency bourbon? She was off panel and, uh, distracted when it came out in 1249. On the other hand there's only so much room behind a counter and she should know absolutely everything there.
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Is there ever any indication that employees consumed the Emergency Bourbon while they were on the clock? I can't remember.
BenRG:
This is a guess on my part but I think that Jeph has skipped over the doctor telling Faye just how bad things were and how close she came to not coming back from that bender. Facing her mortality, everything that has happened to Faye over the past week or so has come rushing back in full detail. Without the cushion of alcohol, there is nothing to stop her from feeling the full impact of it all. I know guys often aren't comfortable with this sort of thing but Faye really needs to be held by a friend right now. It isn't often that you realise that you are close to losing everything!
Is this the start of the road back to health for her? Faye has had a previous false start I the comic. A lot depends on what happens after the horror of this incident wears off. This time, her friends need to help her stick with it. Faye has realised that she wants to live; now her friends need to help her to do so.
I agree with other posters that, in context, panel 3 today is one of the most emotional that I've recently seen in the comic.
Loki:
--- Quote from: ybtlamw on 28 Jan 2015, 23:26 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 28 Jan 2015, 21:28 ---Insightful. Is it established that Dora knew about the emergency bourbon? She was off panel and, uh, distracted when it came out in 1249. On the other hand there's only so much room behind a counter and she should know absolutely everything there.
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Is there ever any indication that employees consumed the Emergency Bourbon while they were on the clock? I can't remember.
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Yes, but Dora was busy with something else.
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Oilman:
I'd regarded the "emergency bourbon" as being on the same level as the Malayan Battle Spatula and Tai's mono/poly status/history - a throw-away gag involving somethung thst wasn't importsnt at the time.
All long-running series contain this sort of thing. Look at the changes to Sam Vimes in Discworld; the original Death is completely unrecognisable as the later character. Terry Pratchett has often remarked that there's no point letting continuity get in the way of a good joke.
On one level, this is Pintsize's problem; he is a one-note character who has somehow survived through all the changes. Look at the repeated cameos by Nobby Nobbs and Fred Colon, characters who Pratchett has long since ceased to have a role fir, but fans like them.
bartman:
--- Quote from: eschaton on 28 Jan 2015, 17:39 --- Dora just didn't care about her as a friend as much as she thought.
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That's a two-way street though. I would remind a friend who tried to pull a 'you obviously didn't care about me as a friend because you fired me' that they put me in the horrible position of having to fire a friend for drinking on the job, and point out that if they truly cared about the friendship then they wouldn't have put me in that awkward position in the first place.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 28 Jan 2015, 23:36 ---Is this the start of the road back to health for her? Faye has had a previous false start I the comic. A lot depends on what happens after the horror of this incident wears off. This time, her friends need to help her stick with it. Faye has realised that she wants to live; now her friends need to help her to do so.
I agree with other posters that, in context, panel 3 today is one of the most emotional that I've recently seen in the comic.
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We can hope it's the start of a successful journey back to being well but recovering from something like this isn't a straight line. There can be a lot of dead-ends and a lot of rough patches but as long as Faye and her friends all realise that, and she truly wants to succeed, then hopefully she will.
And yes, a very powerful strip today in a very powerful storyline.
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