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WCDT Strips 3021 to 3025 (10 to 14 August 2015)
Deadcoder:
I think this week of strips has shown a lot of character development.
Look at Tai. She used to be something of a gag character. She was hot for Dora for comedy, used shipping containers of drugs and sex for comedy, and was a fun boss for comedy. Here, she's shown that she's the kind of person who will put effort into Dora's safety and happiness.
Dora was the fun boss who had hidden insecurities "which weren't hidden well", with relationship issues. Here, she's starting to address those issues and confront those insecurities.
Thank you Jeph. Thank you for good character development.
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: dexeron on 12 Aug 2015, 06:31 ---I think Dora's stance here is less about Sven being any more toxic than anyone else, and more about her. I've never been one of the readers to think of Dora as being a particularly bad person, but in this case I think she's just too close to the situation, and this has more to do with her own unresolved issues with her brother than his being especially "toxic."
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Agreed. Sven is not a toxic person, no more or less than other people. And his relationship with Dora in particular, while we've heard things about their past, what we've seen on screen has not been toxic. We've seen Dora order Sven to stay away from her friends, we've seen Sven more or less do it, and he gave her a place to go after she broke up with Marten and found herself needing one on short notice. Even their past stuff, everything we've heard has been more "Sven is a clueless asshole who gets things because he's charming and talented" and "Sven doesn't think about how his actions might affect Dora" (sleeping with her friends).
If there's anything toxic about their relationship, it's on Dora's end: the jealousy she has toward Sven for things coming easily for him. Sven's cluelessness and self-obsession don't help matters any, but the toxicity isn't there.
I'm hoping this is leading Dora to that conclusion, especially given which of those things is more likely to be in her power to change. Even if she just comes to the conclusion that the only way she has to deal with her rivalry issues is to keep Sven cut off, that's way better than taking the easy way and blaming it all on him, in terms of her growth and ability to form healthy relationships elsewhere.
Socky:
This was really quick. Last time we heard from Dora about this was when she was going to cut Sven out of her life. We never saw that talk, never saw any real fallout, not even any strips with the therapist. The next time it was really brought up (as far as I can remember) was when Hanners bumped in to Sven. I just think a lot more could of been done with it, really shown Dora dealing with the consequences and giving her something to do, but instead we switched to Marten/Claire and Faye/Robots just to have it brought up at a random point.
Sorry, I should probably judge based on what's happening in the story instead of what I think the story could have been.
A Duck:
Well, Dora hasn't been the focus of the plot in a long while. She probably just dealt with it by ignoring Sven's existence altogether. Not much to show there.
Nepiophage:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 12 Aug 2015, 03:43 ---Times change; people move on and mature; stories progress and move towards their end.
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And after many a summer dies the swan.
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