Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2907-2911 (2nd - 6th March 2015)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 05 Mar 2015, 19:30 ---Now imagine there's an open ended discussion of Iago at your favorite hang out, and at least once an hour someone shows up to loudly discuss how shitty a human being Iago is.
Now imagine that every week, the people who were loudly proclaiming Iago's shitty human-being-ness return to say pretty much the same thing.
Now, imagine that after three weeks of this, the Iago hate club dials it back to about three times a day. You think, you can hack it, but the very next day an hourly dissertation on the general shittiness of Othello starts up.
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You wouldn't like the Evangelion forum I frequent, then. Some people are still saying the same things - while others say some new and different things - about a show that ended twenty years ago!
Akima:
On reading Marigold's final line, I was instantly put in mind of the ancient music hall song "The Laughing Policeman".
aphanisis81:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 05 Mar 2015, 20:17 ---
--- Quote from: aphanisis81 on 05 Mar 2015, 19:56 ---We must be reading different forums...
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And on that note, I'll be ending this discussion with you. Nothing personal, but we are reading the same forums, so either you weren't here during...Pretty much everything that happened in the last 2 months, or you don't see the things that happened as a problem.
Either way, it seems to represent an irreconcilable difference.
I will say this: "I don't like this about character X and I think it is boring," isn't literary criticism. It's an opinion. When I can trace the same people stating the same opinion repeatedly, with only a very few discussing any effect on the storytelling, I'd say--hyperbole or not--my characterization stands up. Obviously you don't believe that, so we'll just have to agree to disagree.
As for whether my "stylization" was aimed, in particular aimed at you, consider this: Why should you care? Why is it far more important who I may or may not have been pointing at than what I was trying to communicate? Why is it that it is okay to say things about fictional characters and it's not the speaker's problem if someone is offended, but the possibility that something might be offensive to you with regard to hypothetical people must be investigated?
As I said, I'm done here. So I don't need an answer. Those questions are purely for your consideration.
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Mkay.
ETA: I just noticed that in your "quoting" of my attempt at an explanation/analogy, you reduced the point I was trying to make to "stuff." So, basically, tl;dr. Nice. Guess that'll teach me to spend half an hour trying to construct a post that politely expresses exactly what I think about an issue.
Considering how touchy you are about glib posts, you sure don't seem to have much patience for somebody trying to actually explain themselves, do you?
Furthermore, my inquiry about your mockery of lit-crit had nothing to do with being "offended"; your suggestion that it did might as well have just read "You mad, bro?", btw. No, it had to do with looking back at my posts and trying to see what aspect of them came off as unconvincing or facile. You know, so I can learn from what people found effective or ineffective about my arguments and examples, and adjust accordingly. The day I'm actually "offended" by something an anonymous message board user says is the day I'll know it's time to re-evaluate my priorities.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 06 Mar 2015, 01:24 ---To me, the past two strips have been mostly filler. It seems to me that Jeph is 'walking out' the rest of Tuesday evening (in strip). I suspect that he wants to avoid opening any new plot threads until next week, which means we might have a new major mini-arc. To me, there are two obvious alternatives:
* Faye at the support group;
* Taira aftershocks.
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Probably both, with an Emily/Clinton check-in to liven things up a bit.
aphanisis81:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 06 Mar 2015, 07:49 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 06 Mar 2015, 01:24 ---To me, the past two strips have been mostly filler. It seems to me that Jeph is 'walking out' the rest of Tuesday evening (in strip). I suspect that he wants to avoid opening any new plot threads until next week, which means we might have a new major mini-arc. To me, there are two obvious alternatives:
* Faye at the support group;
* Taira aftershocks.
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Probably both, with an Emily/Clinton check-in to liven things up a bit.
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I'm very conflicted about Taira. On the one hand, I thought Wednesday's comic was well done and a great set up for teh dramaz, if that's the direction it's going in. On the other, I feel like we don't know enough about their relationship yet to really have earned a dramatic falling out. If it happens, I feel like it will be less about Tai's role in the relationship than a character-arc vehicle for Dora. And since they're two of my favorite characters, it's intriguing either way.
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