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WCDT Strips 3606 to 3610 (6th - 10th November 2017)
tustin2121:
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Nov 2017, 16:28 ---My understanding is that we should try to show the same respect to the fictional characters as we do to real people. Right?
Upon meeting someone, would you immediately begin to speculate on their sexuality, whether they are neuro-atypical, or whether they have some disorder? YMMV but that doesn't seem to me like a nice thing to do. Yet it's accepted here, I guess because this is over-analysis central.
Not upset or angry in any way, just finding it all a bit odd.
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I think it's less that we're over-analyzing it (though we are), and more that we're literally getting, every day, a less-than-a-minute snapshot in time to look over for an entire day. There are crass judgements about people we meet that pop into our heads upon first impression that mellow, tweak, and reform as we get more information to supplement our first impression over the next few minutes and hours. But in comic form, that first impression takes days to supplement with more than what would normally be a few seconds worth of information.
On Monday, we had only the first impression of Tilly to work with: she showed up, looking as she does in her round glasses and shirt-pocket button down, says she's Hanner's personal assistant now, and that she likes pancakes. That's all we had to work with, and so people over analyzed her look and her speech and speculated solely on our first impressions without giving the character any chance. We'd probably be having a vastly different conversation had all five of this week's strips been dropped on us at once.
So, I guess I'm basically blaming our over-analysis and rude generalizations on the strip-a-day format of the thing, which is simultaneously decently fast and way too slow. It's like how I binged through the Bubbles' memory story-arc a few weeks ago and got a vastly different impression of the story than basically everyone in these weekly discussion threads (when I went through and read what all was written about it later).
themacnut:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 10 Nov 2017, 07:19 ---You know, reading through the comic again, its kind of heartbreaking to hear how much Hanners cuts herself off from the rest of the world.
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Is it? There are a growing number of people (including the original creators) who think Twitter and Facebook may be bad for humanity, due to all the abuses so easily perpetrated through them. And remember, Hanners may not tweet or post on a Facebook wall, but she does have real-life, off-line friends (well, real within the comic anyway :wink:), friends who look out for her and truly care for her.
And I can understand her outlook about shopping too. Buying stuff other than the absolute essentials means you've got to find a place for that stuff, and maybe find a way to get rid of other stuff the new stuff may replace or you now have no room for (getting rid of old unwanted stuff isn't always as simple as putting it out in the trash, especially in neighborhoods that recycle or where the trash pickup people are picky about what they pick up for trash). Also more stuff means more stuff to take care of and clean and secure...I understand her minimalist outlook, and if I were single I'd live by it as well.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 09 Nov 2017, 22:36 ---Deliberate insult, or turning into her mother?
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Why can't it be both? :)
Magniras:
My theory is that Tilly is Lawful Evil, just like Beatrice.
thedevilissix:
Tilly should just be Winslow's PA whilst he builds a psychiatry empire. :angel: :evil:
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