Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2887-2891 (2-6 February 2015)
WanderNotAimless:
--- Quote from: DrClef on 06 Feb 2015, 13:29 ---I'm a Clairten shipper, but even I'd rather go back to the old days when the two of them were just friends and their relationship was mostly hanging out and reading books and making horrible puns.
This Marten doesn't have any of the flaws and rough edges that bounced off of Claire's rough edges and flaws so well. This is an AnthroPC Marten-Bot running "I AM A PERFECT BOYFRIEND.EXE" v. 2.0.
I like that a comic is handling a trans relationship well and giving a nice play-by-play of what we wish that everyone who has ever dated a trans person could be like. But Questionable Content has always been about flawed individuals doing the best they can and having some fun along the way. Perfect Boyfriend Marten stands out like a sore thumb.
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This resonates strongly with me. Ever since this relationship, it's almost like a completely different character from the fumbling, bumbling, over-analyzing Marten that I recall up to this point.
On another point... this seems sort of like it came outta left field? We go from Faye drama right into, what I assume to be, the first sexual encounter of a relatively new and unique relationship.
de_la_Nae:
Anyway, hopefully my last contribution to this thread (let you other kids do all the fun overanalyzing parts):
Waaah, waaah, there's not enough drama in this relationship pie, it is too sweet while I prefer a bitter taste. Like Marten's relationship with Dora, that I totally forget was mostly hunky-dory from the beginning because I have all this hindsight regarding the fights and problems they ended up having *later* in said relationship. OH wait......
But seriously guys, you're silly. We already can (and have) pointed to personality clashes that will come up more and more as this cheese ages. I can't begin to guess why some of you seem to not be aware of New Relationship Energy (or whatever you want to call it), but I'll be lenient and not accuse you of holding Claire and Marten to a different standard than you held Marten and Dora, or Tai and Dora, or Faye and Angus, or Marigold and Dale, etc. etc.
Srsly tho, New Relationship Energy can be great and help smooth out a lot of things, for better and worse. Maybe you don't experience it for some reason, but nothing here is so far off-base that it's pinging my bullshit meter, at any rate.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: WanderNotAimless on 06 Feb 2015, 14:11 ---This resonates strongly with me. Ever since this relationship, it's almost like a completely different character from the fumbling, bumbling, over-analyzing Marten that I recall up to this point.
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It's easy to forget that, post-Padma and especially in the run up to the Skritch Incident, Marten was making a deliberate attempt to change his approach to romantic interactions. So, in a very real way, this is a v.2.0 we're seeing run... or at very least a v.2.0 beta.
Neko_Ali:
So was the attempt with Delilah the v2.0 alpha test? It's fitting, it crashed and burned pretty hard....
Technetium:
You know, I think now that my original post in this thread might actually be a moot point, because the more I look at this, it looks like Martin's expression in the 2nd-to-last frame is like a deer in headlights. Like he's thinking "uhhhhhhh, oh shit I wasn't ready for this after all", and it makes the seeming flatness of his comment in the last frame actually make more sense, in that it may be an insincere comment. Like, he doesn't want to hurt her feelings so he's stuck now.
Or maybe not. Maybe I'm just an anti-shipper and I get a kick of the relationships in this story failing. I dunno.
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