Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2912 to 2916 (9-13 March 2015)
Oenone:
I want him to have noped so hard, he somehow ends up in Amherst in front of Dora's new apartment, where she's crying by herself because that's safer than crying in front of people.
Cattus:
I think it's pretty clear what just happened here. Marten has recently gotten into a happy place with Claire. While this has been happening, the relationships of his closest friends have gone into the crapper. He is zoning out, suffering from WTF syndrome. And to top it off, he's at the core of this all - best buds and roomie with Faye, ex-bf of Dora, good friend and minion of Tai. He's just hoping that Hanners and Marigold don't come to blows. Bad Karma all around. How will things settle out in the end? I suspect things will get worse before they get better.
But better they WILL get - I'm banking on it. It's FigNewton's law of the conservation of feels. Positive feels will eventually balance all the negative feels until we get to feels equilibrium - because of the ever increasing entropy of feels.
chaospersonified:
--- Quote from: Cattus on 09 Mar 2015, 13:01 ---I think it's pretty clear what just happened here. Marten has recently gotten into a happy place with Claire. While this has been happening, the relationships of his closest friends have gone into the crapper. He is zoning out, suffering from WTF syndrome. And to top it off, he's at the core of this all - best buds and roomie with Faye, ex-bf of Dora, good friend and minion of Tai. He's just hoping that Hanners and Marigold don't come to blows. Bad Karma all around. How will things settle out in the end? I suspect things will get worse before they get better.
But better they WILL get - I'm banking on it. It's FigNewton's law of the conservation of feels. Positive feels will eventually balance all the negative feels until we get to feels equilibrium - because of the ever increasing entropy of feels.
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*blink blink* Hanners and Marigold weren't IN today's strip, though? And in the last strip, they didn't seem to have nearly the falling out everyone was predicting for them last week. Hanners was angry, then they were talking about farting, and all seemed okay between them. The scene shifted to Marten and Tai, then, so presumably, those two strips were just filler.
TheEvilDog:
Here's the thing though, Marten has been in the exact same position that Tai now finds herself. Hindsight really is 20/20 and right now, Marten has crystal clear vision. He knows all the warning signs, they are plastered everywhere. There might as well be giant flashing lights with guards posted to divert people from the upcoming crash. From Marten's perspective, if he tried to offer any advice or help in any way, he'd just end up taking the controls of a runaway train that's about to fly off the tracks.
No matter what happens now, someone is going to be hurt, someone is going to cry. By removing himself from the situation, Marten has made sure he can't be made a scapegoat by anyone if the crap does hit the fan.
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: ASB84 on 09 Mar 2015, 05:49 ---The issue of readers having unrealistic expectations of perfection has been brought up a couple of times in the past week. That's not why there are objections to the way certain characters are handling their business. When we consume fiction and react to fictional characters, we're (generally) not holding them to an unrealistic standard of perfection, but we do compare them to the real world, particularly when the characters are well-rounded, realistic, and relate-able.
To that end, we don't ask them to be perfect, but we do ask: are their actions, attitudes, and motives understandable? Reasonable? Sympathetic? That's what shapes our reactions to the characters and their role in the plot.
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We can't ask fictional characters to not be perfect. Then again, we can't ask the creator of said characters to bend to the whim of the fandom. HOWEVER, said creator obviously cannot ignore the fandom that have genuine criticism and gripes about how a story or characters are progressing.
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