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WCDT Strips 3521 to 3525 (10th to 14th July 2017)
Case:
Comic's up!
I guess that clarifies the "physical attraction question". I'm gonna go check up on that Badger ...
P.S.: "That Is Not the Point! Aghblghl ..." SNERK!
MrNumbers:
I think this adds a +1 to the "Jeph isn't just teasing shippers, Bubbles has feelings and is embarrassed by the assumptions they're reciprocated" tally.
I know a lot of you guys were saying earlier in the week "This is just Jeph telling people to cool it with the shipping" but, honestly, from a writing standpoint, it looks like Jeph is using Clinton -- Designated Poor Schmuck character -- to obliviously and without intent call Bubbles out on her feelings in a way that is super awkward for both of them, and later have Bubbles have to deal with it seriously without being pressured into a definite reaction now, so she has a chance to simmer on it and we as an audience get to see that play out slower.
If it was just 'nothing was happening between them' comedy playing off the misunderstanding beat, you wouldn't have the Bubbles reaction you do today. Even though that is a reasonable reaction for someone who is just platonic and embarrassed about the situation, the authorial intent seems to imply this as an establishing beat for a character storyline -- Bubbles' last one just wrapped up with the armor coming off, and Faye and Bubbles have got a new shop and it is open, we've had a breather with the party, this is exactly about the point in the comic's pacing stuff like this starts getting set up again.
Note: A story beat is basically the significant events that the story flows through that you can identify as having narrative purpose, the framework from which everything else is connected.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 13 Jul 2017, 02:28 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Jul 2017, 23:59 ---Not completely OK, because then he would never have said "No judgement from me!".
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It's interesting you say this; I interpret that simply as being conscious that other people might have a problem with it, and Bubbles defensiveness is misinterpreting him as coming from that place.
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That would fit too, come to think of it, especially given what Emperor Norton posted about saying just that sincerely and straightforwardly.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Case on 13 Jul 2017, 20:34 ---I'm gonna go check up on that Badger ...
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I'll help. Because this forum is going to explode.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Case on 13 Jul 2017, 20:34 ---Comic's up!
I guess that clarifies the "physical attraction question". I'm gonna go check up on that Badger ...
P.S.: "That Is Not the Point! Aghblghl ..." SNERK!
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Which brings me to something about the shipping argument. Reasoning with the moderators works sometimes :-) At the moment, reason is saying that the "100% strictly platonic" hypothesis is showing signs of wear. Could still be true, with Bubbles making a neutral observation about reality that was accidentally awkward, but that's a stretch.
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