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WCDT Strips 3286 to 3290 (15-19 August 2016)
Wildroses:
Well, Renee's not crazily protective about Brun's romantic life. She didn't seem unhappy with the idea of Elliot crushing on her precious vulnerable friend until he tried to muss up her carefully crafted hairstyle.
BenRG:
Another minor thing from this strip: Some eagle-eyed readers have noticed that the doors in Northampton tend to magically raise themselves to the height of the most vertically-exaggerated characters, such as Bubbles and Elliott. Well, no longer! We can definitely see today that Elliott has to duck when entering The Secret Bakery unless he wants to ANH-Stormtrooper Blooper his forehead on the crossbeam!
Tova:
--- Quote from: carnex on 17 Aug 2016, 23:19 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 17 Aug 2016, 22:12 ---
If you take another look at the last two panels, you will see that she was not, in fact, complaining about not getting a pat on the head. That was only the way Elliot interpreted it*. She's trying to imply that Elliot wants to pat Brun on the head because he has a crush on her.
Now I've gone and explained the joke again. Sorry.
* Not only Ellliot, I guess.
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If you take another look at it you can see her nearly equating her being pissed of at her mother to her friend losing her job, stuff and roof over head. That is textbook definition of unhealthily self centered. Even if it was to make a point on big guy not accepting his feelings, it's way, WAY to much.
And she didn't even refuse pat politely, she is drawn with clearly disgusted expresion. That drives the point even further.
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Why is this directed at me? My post had nothing to do with whether she is self-centered or not. It was specifically in response to someone claiming she wanted a pat on the head, which was a misinterpretation.
Having said that, I don't think she is actually equating the things you think she's equating. She's trying to prove to Elliot that he has a crush, that's all. Probably misguidedly.
I have no comment on whether she is self-centered.
Oenone:
Idk if it's self centered to give your friend fresh pastries....
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 18 Aug 2016, 03:11 ---Idk if it's self centered to give your friend fresh pastries....
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It is self-centred if it's done so with the implicit assumption that you'll get some ego-stroking thanks and praise for doing so. I'm not saying that this was Renee's motive but clearly a lot of people do think that.
To me, the big joke in today's comic is that Elliott is so desperate to deny that he's attracted to Brun in any way that he's proposing to engage in an entirely inappropriately intimate behaviour with Renee so as to try to prove to himself that what he wants to do with Brun is nothing indicative of attraction. I can't exactly blame her for being freaked out by this.
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