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WCDT Strips 3546 to 3550 (14th to 18th August 2017)
Tova:
Maybe not immediately.
Emperor Norton:
The thing is, people act like characters in stories are real people. The whole "well, everyone doesn't know everything we know", but the truth is, things happen in a story because the writer wrote them that way. And when two characters have an interaction where both made mistakes, one through ignorance, and one through emotion, when one is talked to in the "and what can we learn from this experience" and the other is mollified, it creates a really frustrating message.
Like, imagine if Dale had happened to be in the convenience store when it happened. Just a chill "You don't think that was a little harsh?" People act like I want someone to snap at her and yell at her. I don't, just for someone to say something that would put her actions in any light other than justified.
Tova:
I think that the modern attitude that there must be immediate consequences for any character in a story that does wrong is a massive sidetrack that I'm going to just leave alone for now. It's an interesting and topical subject to me right now, and I'd be happy to discuss it, but maybe not here.
ChipNoir:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 17 Aug 2017, 19:27 ---The thing is, people act like characters in stories are real people. The whole "well, everyone doesn't know everything we know", but the truth is, things happen in a story because the writer wrote them that way. And when two characters have an interaction where both made mistakes, one through ignorance, and one through emotion, when one is talked to in the "and what can we learn from this experience" and the other is mollified, it creates a really frustrating message.
Like, imagine if Dale had happened to be in the convenience store when it happened. Just a chill "You don't think that was a little harsh?" People act like I want someone to snap at her and yell at her. I don't, just for someone to say something that would put her actions in any light other than justified.
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Except I think you do want hail and hellfire at May. Because Bubbles did in the calmest, least vitriolic way, completely dismiss her notions that Winslow is a jerk, by saying that she herself doesn't think he's a jerk.
I'm sorry, but that is the most reasonable and rational way to handle it. Not everyone needs to be punished when they screw up. If anything, Bubbles is leading by example on multiple levels, but showing that she can disagree with May's opinion without returning fire.
It's a pretty valuable message.
Emperor Norton:
I'm in a thread discussing the comic.
It isn't about immediate consequences, it is that this arc has a feel to it of many "very special episode" arcs in other media. In which one character learns about a social issue, and makes changes. A common pitfall of those kind of arcs is that people can straight up be jerks to the well meaning person who is learning, and they never have to admit they are being jerks, and I am expressing how much it would disappoint me if that is how this played out. And pointing out that opportunities keep being passed for someone to say SOMETHING.
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