Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3181 to 3185 (21 to 25 March 2016)
Tova:
It seemed in character to me. E.g.:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2205
This is the assertive Claire that, as I recall, a handful of people took to disliking around about this time in the strip. Curious, that.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Random832 on 25 Mar 2016, 16:40 ---Pintsize hadn't said one word about technology supposedly solving non-technical problems such as bigotry.
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Pintsize said: "Eh, it'll be fine. Eventually everyone will be able to have whatever kind of body they want." So he was certainly suggesting that technology would fix the problem of any mis-match between mind and body, and then everything would be "fine". Like Claire, I'm perfectly certain that it won't.
--- Quote from: Tova on 25 Mar 2016, 18:15 ---This is the assertive Claire that, as I recall, a handful of people took to disliking around about this time in the strip.
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Just so.
Neko_Ali:
Fixing the body is only one part of the problem, of course. Between that and thousands of years of bigotry and hatred... That's probably the lesser problem in many cases.
TRVA123:
From a message point, YES, right on, this is what people need to hear right now.
From a storytelling point... I have to agree that it seems as though Jeph pulled a bit of a Sorkin. Occasionally in the show the West Wing, Sorkin would push a character into asking a question or making a point that that character might not ordinarily make (for example, the episode when CJ is forced to ask Sam what the census is...) It doesn't quite flow as the story usually does.
It is enough of a break from Jephs usual storytelling style that it is noticable, but in this case it doesn't bother me much. I think that at this moment in history people might need to hear something a little more heavy handed. People can't just go "oh, bigots are on the wrong side of history, why should we even care about voting/fighting injustice now? Someday soon we won't have these silly laws."
comicalArchitect:
My response to all this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped
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