Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 2996-3000 (6th to 10th July 2015)
anahata:
Welcome, new person!
Also, how interesting that Jeph has never mentioned ADHD, but has managed to portray the behaviour (and the reactions of others to it) so accurately that it can be easily recognised by someone who knows.
cabbagehut:
I get what Emily's saying, and I can appreciate it, but I struggle to see it as actual character development. It could be opening the door, but until we see a bit of a change in Emily, it's just a speech.
As of now, in the comic, why wouldn't people think she's weird and random? When was the last time she actually showed interest in someone else's views, tried to get to know someone, or made a connection with them, outside of Clinton? Even when she had the big party, she spent a lot of it doing weird, random things, so it makes sense that the people around her see her that way. Did she have any real conversations with anyone?
It's not that she can't be herself, because there's nothing wrong with the things she does. But if she wants other people to see her as something other than weird and random, then she has to do a little work to show that there's more to her than the surface stuff she does.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 08 Jul 2015, 20:32 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 08 Jul 2015, 20:12 ---No, I know, but if she's done this before but stayed weird (and in fact, is weird all the way down), why would we expect her to change? Why would we want her to?
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Hush, it's just a retcon. Because Weird Emily may have been amusing 800 strips ago, but if she's still Weird Emily 800 strips later, and another 800 after that, with no other angle to her character, then she's just boring. Might as well send her into the stacks to fight Bibliodons with Gabby so we can spend more time with Claire.
I don't mind Emily continuing to express her gleeful love of weird things, mind you, but I want to see more moments like this, too. Her "hidden depths." So I'm glad Jeph decided to retcon explore her character a bit more.
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Well yeah, hopefully we actually see more of her depth, my point is that she wouldn't be changing at all, we'd just actually see more of her. Especially now that she's around people who might be able to appreciate it.
greywolfe:
Emily knows she is wierd and random and just wants people to accept her for what she is. Adorbs!
Neko_Ali:
I would say that from a literary standpoint opening a window to let the readers understand the character better is as much and as valid character development as having the character learn and grow from experience. This is an observed media after all. The point of it is what the reader takes away from it, not what the fictional characters learn.
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