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Why We LIKE Dora!
phyllis:
I like Dora! She is quite a flawed human, but then, you could also just say "she's a human" and the "quite flawed" thing would be implicit anyway. I think part of the reason that I like her is that her habit of making snap decisions to protect herself from being hurt, whilst maybe not always the best path, is completely relatable and realistic (and understandable, especially if she's previously been in lots of abusive relationships in the past). I also like that her history of having been through abusive relationships hasn't led her to avoid relationships completely and live in a cynical shell, which would have been a totally understandable decision.
explicit:
To be fair, every character in QC is flawed. I like how there aren't any Gary Stu's in this comic. They all have issues and significant problems to address. They're real, in a sense. An unflawed character seems almost 1-dimensional to me. No one is perfect and using the anime, "his parents/sister or some shit is dead!" cliche (or anything along those lines) is overdone and boring to me. These characters in QC - and having thought of it significantly - Dora in particular - are flawed, yet show a lot of character development and structure (not all of them, but you can only get so much done in a comic strip that includes so many characters). I'd actually argue that Dora is the most developed character at this point considering Marten lacks conviction any which way and Faye has a lot of issues that we can't understand.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 31 Jan 2015, 03:32 ---Well, there are plenty of non-gender specific swearwords one could bestow upon unpleasant people :wink:
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I'm rather fond of "A complete waste of space."
Which Dora isn't. She's flawed, yes, but not completely or fatally flawed. A real person.
hedgie:
I tend to prefer "waste of oxygen" or "asshat", or "spunk-stain", personally.
DSL:
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--- Quote from: Rghfrgl on 30 Jan 2015, 22:41 ---That might be true in the case of firing Faye.
I don't think the controlling jealousy would go over any better if the roles were reversed with Marten. And I think she's come off a lot worse with Sven, she'd pretty much be like Clinton.
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Is this really the thread for criticizing Dora?
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Paradoxically, it's the perfect thread for doing so ... if you take into account two things:
-- MrNumbers' excellent post above, noting the (here's that word again) paradoxical nature of the fascination certain of the QC characters have, particularly Dora and Faye.
-- the definition of "criticism," not as negativity and snarky and wet-hen fury disguised as wit (the innertubez definition) but as analysis and examination.
After all, that title of the thread is "WHY we like Dora." (change in emphasis mine.)
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