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God Himself Could Not Sink This Ship: Thoughts on Marten, Claire, and the Future
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 27 Feb 2015, 18:30 ---Preeeeetty sure that that's how it would be interpeted, though, if it did happen.
But maybe I've been taking these suggestions a little too seriously. Still, nope. Farten ain't happenin'.
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Knowing that there's there's a lot of people who seem to seek out those kinds of interpretations, it wouldn't surprise me. Doesn't mean they'd be right, though :wink:
In all seriousness, when an artist/writer has to constantly second-guess themselves on if something can possibly be interpreted in a way that in no way resembles what they intended it as, I'd personally not blame the whole lot of them if they gave up their artistic implements of choice. Some people look for ways to be offended by things when no offense or hidden meaning was intended or there in the first place.
None of this is directed at anyone in particular, but as a general commentary on something that seems to come up more and more frequently. It has to be tiring, to constantly be searching for the worst possible way something can be read into and always assuming the worst of people. :psyduck:
Got off-topic a bit there. I'll go back to my corner now.
Gladstone:
--- Quote from: Endellion on 27 Feb 2015, 18:49 ---But-but-but, this is foreshadowed right here on the bottle! It's meant to be!
(J/k'ing if it wasn't completely obvious)
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Ah, but that's Fartin. Meaning, Faye is going to meet someone named Martin (Martin Reid, that is), and spend the rest of the comic enduring jokes about the similarities. Marten Reed will, of course, be oblivious.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 27 Feb 2015, 18:53 ---
None of this is directed at anyone in particular, but as a general commentary on something that seems to come up more and more frequently. It has to be tiring, to constantly be searching for the worst possible way something can be read into and always assuming the worst of people. :psyduck:
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There's been quite a bit of that lately.
Gladstone:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 27 Feb 2015, 18:53 ---In all seriousness, when an artist/writer has to constantly second-guess themselves on if something can possibly be interpreted in a way that in no way resembles what they intended it as, I'd personally not blame the whole lot of them if they gave up their artistic implements of choice. Some people look for ways to be offended by things when no offense or hidden meaning was intended or there in the first place.
None of this is directed at anyone in particular, but as a general commentary on something that seems to come up more and more frequently. It has to be tiring, to constantly be searching for the worst possible way something can be read into and always assuming the worst of people.
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Yeah, I get what you're saying. But my point was that killing off the only trans character, in a comic in which no member of the cast has ever been killed off (and the only actual death depicted was in flashbacks), would be received rather poorly, and for good reason, because LGBT characters have a habit of being killed off for dramatic purposes in other media. Claire adding to the count would forever cement her as "the trans character who died so that Marten and Faye could get together," which is probably not something Jeph wants to be known for, unless he wants 4chan to like him.
But yeah, I think I've said enough on this topic, so I'm going to go away for a bit to calm down.
Endellion:
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 27 Feb 2015, 18:59 ---
--- Quote from: Endellion on 27 Feb 2015, 18:49 ---But-but-but, this is foreshadowed right here on the bottle! It's meant to be!
(J/k'ing if it wasn't completely obvious)
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Ah, but that's Fartin. Meaning, Faye is going to meet someone named Martin (Martin Reid, that is), and spend the rest of the comic enduring jokes about the similarities. Marten Reed will, of course, be oblivious.
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Nonono, Martin Reed is Marten Reed's clone made from this blood sample and genetically aged by Ellicott-Chatham technology. In about 50 strips time he'll replace Marten in a diabolical scheme involving an aardvark and dumped in the Stony River Quarry (used earlier to dump Angus' body when he was going back to patch things up with Faye).
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