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WCDT 2887-2891 (2-6 February 2015)
Omega Entity:
Did I say I hated it when they're happy? No. I said I hate it when they essentially fall just short of putting me into a diabetic coma.
osaka:
--- Quote from: Orkboy on 07 Feb 2015, 10:12 ---In response to everyone who hates it when comic characters are happy:
Do you hate puppies too?
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Strongly depends on the puppy. Some of them I want to kick so far away they write a Dragonforce song.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Orkboy on 07 Feb 2015, 10:12 ---In response to everyone who hates it when comic characters are happy:
Do you hate puppies too?
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I'm more of a cat person.
Cyril:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 06 Feb 2015, 22:21 ---
--- Quote from: Technetium on 06 Feb 2015, 08:08 ---Claire's existence in this comic so far, is like a fairy-tale reality for trans people. Everything seems to be going the way that most trans people would want but few actually see
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Which makes exactly one depiction of that in any medium, film, tv show, cartoon, or even book that I know of.
One.
I think.. we deserve that fairy-tale just once. And it does happen like that in reality, sometimes, just as some girls are princesses (which I suspect is over-rated).
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That's kind of what I was going with before. I mean, sure, there will inevitably be 'normal' relationship drama, but drawing attention to how unrealistic a good beginning is only underlines how a minor change in the setting 'people are accepting and react in a less than catastrophic way after being given ample and explicit warning' creates the appearance of a massively unrealistic outcome.
On the other hand the trajectory of the relationship to date has been one that should either be an epilogue (i.e. not part of the actual story, and is summed up by 'and they lived happily ever after') or be the sort of thing that happens to minor characters where you just don't care about the little drama bits. Except for Claire's identity, the whole thing is very saccharine and flat -- by no means unrealistic for the way the first stages of a courtship reads to the rest of the world, but no more interesting for all that. I think a lot of us who've been reading this forever are pretty happy to get a 'victory' arc for Marten but I can totally see being a little bit done with hitting the same note over and over again (which is so odd to say since the Faye arc is all the counterpoint we should need right now).
TheRedMaiden:
--- Quote from: HeavyP on 07 Feb 2015, 09:36 ---I like my media (books, movies, games, etc) with happy endings for the same reason. It's not that I don't like to be "challenged" or that I can't "handle" serious, darker work, it's that I don't WANT to.
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Yes! That's the exact reason for the things I read, too. It doesn't make me immature for not "being able to handle" the darker stuff, but I'm not going to actively partake of a media I know is only going to depress me, when I can be happy an amused instead. That's why I watch Disney and comedies rather than movies who are setup to make you feel sad. Incidentally, that's also why I feel the "kill the dog" tactic in a lot of movies and stories is a cheap shot for directors and writers who can't think of something to earn genuine emotion out of audiences, and the same goes for jump scares in horror movies.
But I digress. As already stated, I'm glad the comic went this way, and I don't think the challenges for trans people are dismissed at all, but there's no reason for it to be shown in these circumstances, because the only people Claire could face that from is the people she tells, and she's extremely careful about that, too. Notice she's only told Marten and Emily. And while she's given Marten permission to tell others if they happen to ask, I think she also trusts him to have a similar judge of character to hers where he'll be selective with who he actually answers truthfully.
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