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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
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I wish I knew more about Star Trek so I could come up with funny things to say...
Omega Entity:
Pssh, you want to talk overrepresented in Star Trek? Frickin' Andorians! Everywhere you look, all you see is blue skin :psyduck:
(I'm actually amazed that I even remembered what they were called.)
AprilArcus:
--- Quote from: Oilman on 26 Jan 2015, 20:55 ---Marten is shown as delighted that he now has "three dads" with no suggestion that abandoning his mother us in any way blameworthy.
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Marten has had fourteen years to get over his parents divorce, and it has been shown that he was not precisely thrilled about it at the time.
A Duck:
Well, this is one surreal thread... Let's do this, point by point:
--- Quote from: Oilman on 26 Jan 2015, 18:27 --- The cast are a fairly predictable Webcomic crew of losers stuck in the usual rut of service-industry non-jobs,
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That...Actually isn't true. Dora has her own business, Tai is essentially the boss at the library. I don't think the library quite qualifies as "service-industry", either. In fact, the only main cast actually stuck would be Faye, but that is a somewhat importan part of her character. Steve is a goddamn secret agent!
--- Quote from: Oilman on 26 Jan 2015, 18:27 --- there is the usual over-representation of homosexuality (seriously, who really knows that many gay oeople?)
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I do know a lot of gay people, proportionally way more than in the comic, as do many other that commented. Gay people exist and are everywhere, they seem "new" for some people because society is screwed up and many of those would never "come out" mere years ago. Many still never do.
--- Quote from: Oilman on 26 Jan 2015, 18:27 --- sexualised view of life
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People have sex. Get over it.
--- Quote from: Oilman on 26 Jan 2015, 18:27 --- and living beyond their financial means with no obvious problems.
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I don't see anyone in the comic living beyond their means. We can't have half of the comic being money problems, but it's been made clear that buying a guitar broke Marten's finances for some time. Again, the only one doing stuff beyond simply going to a bar is Hannelore, and not only her parents have all the money in the world, but she could make a lot of money herself, as far as we know.
--- Quote from: Oilman on 26 Jan 2015, 18:27 --- May was a good one-shot as a holo but now she's just tedious, with a side-order of political correctness. She COULD have been interesting, as an exploration of the whole "Robot Jail" scenario but I don't know where that went to. She COULD have been an exploration of the whole issue of robots eroding low-paid employment, but another opportunity lost.
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May just barely appeared since getting out of prison, and for what she did the issue WAS explored (see her difficulty on finding employment).
--- Quote from: Oilman on 26 Jan 2015, 18:27 ---Pintsize is a one-joke character that has outlasted his time.
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Pintsize himself said that long ago, and has developed since. We know he has "hidden depths" and I assume the current storyline will serve to further his character development
--- Quote from: Oilman on 26 Jan 2015, 18:27 ---Dale and Marigold are interesting. They are outside the whole "hipster" thing and I think I might quite like Dale IRL. Marigold's whole shut-in scenario is familiar to any parent, although the whole "anime porn" thing is overdone, another Webcomic generality it seems.
The USreadership probsbly haven't seen it, or don't understand it if they have, but one if the huge successes of British tv in recent years has been "Gavin and Stacey", a rom-com of sorts about a rather sweet, and quite unremarkable young couple surrounded by a cast of grotesques and eccentrics. It works much better than it sounds, because you genuinely do care about the eponymous central characters and the secondary characters are genuinely funny.... but it knew when it had done the joke, and stopped.
You can see this in GWS, where the couples - Clarice and Joshua, Maureen and Jameson, to some extent Chrus and Melody - are moving steadily away from the central gag of "anti-social selfish loser and her ditzy friend"
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Dale and Marigold went through a lot of development before they became a couple, but since that happened recently, they didn't have much time to develop afterwards. Hard to say we're "done" with them.
--- Quote from: Oilman on 26 Jan 2015, 18:27 ---Marten is shown as delighted that he now has "three dads" with no suggestion that abandoning his mother us in any way blameworthy. Of course, this is hand-waved in that SHE is a sex-worker of ample income and Marten has left home, but it's a very soecifuc view, don't you think?
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I don't see how accepting your father's remarriage has any relation whatsoever with abandoning your mother.
Aziraphale:
Over-representation of homosexuality? In what universe? If anything, I think the number skews a bit low. I know far more LGB people than are represented in the QC-verse (haven't met as many trans* people), and I'd be willing to wager that you do too (whether they're comfortably out around you is something else again).
And a good number of whom I know because of other LGB people I know. The same would be true if you subbed, say, Portuguese for LGBT, and for the same reason: people tend to congregate with, and befriend, either people who are like them, or people who make the effort to understand them and treat them with friendship and decency.
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