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WCDT Strips 3066 to 3070 (12th - 16th October 2015)
neurocase:
If she was that broken, why did she go to the party in the first place and make an obvious effort in the form of at least putting on lipstick? If she honestly thought there was no chance of it going well, she wouldn't have bothered. All she's doing is acting out after threatening very real physical violence against someone, and implying that there was never any chance it could have worked when clearly she thought it might have. To me, those aren't the actions of a broken person, or robot in this case. They're the actions of someone unwilling to make any allowances or give any lenience toward ingratiating herself into society.
EDIT: spelling hurrdurr
mustang6172:
Don't you mean installing lipstick? :claireface:
MrNumbers:
It's interesting. I get the idea Bubbles is supposed to be sympathetic, but-
What motivates her? We don't know. What does she like? We don't know. Why should we like her?
I don't know.
Maybe if I had more of a reason to pity her? But I don't. She's obviously capable of making her own choices, and she's actively choosing to make terrible ones. If we had more interactions with her that were like the first time she met Pintsize, if we had more awareness of why she might be worth exploring as a character, sure.
I don't like her. I don't empathize with her. I don't pity her. I don't relate to her.
I feel I have the same problems with her that I do with Marigold: Jeph wants to play up this likable but flawed introvert, but plays too heavy on the flawed introvert angle so anything good that comes out of them just starts feeling disingenuous.
And while I'm not a combat veteran, I'm a PTSD riddled agoraphobic, so it's not like I simply don't understand. I just simply find her reactions and interactions abhorrable. She's doing everything she can to validate her self loathing at the expense of the people around her, people like Marten. Why should I want to see more of her? What does QC get from her inclusion?
At this point, I think any redemption arc she goes through will either have to be really well done, or come across as trite and twee and false-feeling.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: TheCollector on 11 Oct 2015, 19:44 ---Did you not see her call herself broken?
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Did we read the same comic? She explicitly states that she is not broken. She's probably either lying or wrong, but still.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 11 Oct 2015, 21:00 ---
--- Quote from: TheCollector on 11 Oct 2015, 19:44 ---Did you not see her call herself broken?
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Did we read the same comic? She explicitly states that she is not broken. She's probably either lying or wrong, but still.
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I was wondering if I was alone in reading it that way.
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