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WCDT 2976-2980 (8 - 12 June 2015)
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jun 2015, 03:24 ---It's always easy to make peace when both sides want peace.
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If this were true, we writers of fiction would be hard pressed for stories, and history would be a lot less bloody. It's easy to make peace when both sides fear not peace more than they fear loss of pride. I was actually commenting that the drama was actually even less than I expected. I didn't expect much.
It's interesting to me that Marten deflected. Deflecting is not good, but nobody's perfect. The interesting thing to me is how he deflected. He didn't erase Claires responsibility by taking blame. He said, "It's my fault, too." I think that's a pretty healthy way to look at it.
Also, I think Faye has resolved some of her problems. Faye was a woman who couldn't honestly engage her issues without violence or total deflection. While she's retreated to the bottle, she is much more able to be vulnerable with those she trusts.
In a very real sense, Marten hadn't resolved many of his issues until very recently. He continued to coast through life aimlessly and turtle up when faced with setbacks. Letting his guard down with Claire wasn't growth. Following up on it when she backed off was. The fact that Faye had to intervene to make today's healthy moment possible shows that the passive, takes-all-shit Marten Reed is still in there. I think he's grown enough to have made this right on his own, but not enough to see that there was no sense in waiting. He's changed, but he hasn't changed a lot. Same with Faye.
swapna:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 07 Jun 2015, 23:27 ---Ouch. I think that I see where this is going now. We're working towards 'The Talk, Part 2'. We're going to have a week or two of cute Clairten filler with sassy Faye commentary. Then, a hung-over Faye will awaken and, in strip 3000, the bitter unburdening of a broken heart to her friend (and his girlfriend) will begin.
A small thing that I noticed: You can see the tension in Marten and Claire's body postures. They are neither relaxed nor are they happy!
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oh god, no. Please not. Really. That would be horrible. For a few reasons:
* even most of those who do like Clairten just had their fill of sappy Clairten fillers. Everybody else, double that feeling.
* Why fillers? There are a lot of topics that aren't resolved yet. How is Dora, the whole CoD Staff, Sven, Steve and Corsette, Clinton and Emily (and so on)
* Hell no. Why would Faye, who has said clearly that Claire isn't in her circle of friends yet and is quite uncomfortable talking about feelings with anybody (Angus, Marten, Dora, her therapist) speak her innermost feelings to Claire, of all people?
BenRG:
--- Quote from: swapna on 08 Jun 2015, 05:18 ---Hell no. Why would Faye, who has said clearly that Claire isn't in her circle of friends yet and is quite uncomfortable talking about feelings with anybody (Angus, Marten, Dora, her therapist) speak her innermost feelings to Claire, of all people?
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Not Claire, Marten. Claire would just happen to be there.
neurocase:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jun 2015, 05:44 ---
--- Quote from: swapna on 08 Jun 2015, 05:18 ---Hell no. Why would Faye, who has said clearly that Claire isn't in her circle of friends yet and is quite uncomfortable talking about feelings with anybody (Angus, Marten, Dora, her therapist) speak her innermost feelings to Claire, of all people?
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Not Claire, Marten. Claire would just happen to be there.
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I seriously, SERIOUSLY doubt that. Faye would never drop anything like that with Claire just sitting there. She wouldn't want to be a bitch and get rid of her after being the one to call her there, so she'd just stay quiet. I think we might be seeing the beginnings of Faye really clamming up again and blocking everyone out. Only this time, they're not going to get past the "prickly exterior"; they're just going to be too tired and end up leaving.
rfrank dodelijk:
faye is far better off drunk than sober considering the company she keeps.
I think today's strip clearly shows that faye's drinking is not a problem and that her trip to the hospital was entirely due to her housemate's huge over reaction.
I would like to see a mass culling of lesser characters in 3000 but don't hold much hope for that.
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