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WCDT 3611 to 3615 (13th to 17th November 2017)
mikmaxs:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 13 Nov 2017, 23:11 ---If you're a new QC character and you aren't detested on the forums within about half a dozen appearances, then you've probably been mute.
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Hm, not sure, previous characters to my recollection never were that detested, except maybe for Renee and to a lesser degree Brun.
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I guess you weren’t here when May was introduced then. There were people who absolutely despised her. Bubbles had a few fanatical detractors also.
On the other hand, Corpse Witch didn’t get a whole lot of hate when she was first introduced. Draw whatever moral you like from that.
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Thanks, no I was around, I just didn't recall May being that loathed, at least not after she re-appeared in physical form. Bubbles maybe had few detractors but was AFAIK more or less universally liked here, no?
Anyway, doesn't really matter, as always I have confidence in JJ coming up with an interesting storyline.
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A bit late to the show here, but:
Jeph kinda just sucks at introducing new characters in a way that makes them likeable. It's not one of his strengths.
Let's take all the examples here:
May, Brun, and now Tally all have the exact same setup (And Bubbles too, but to a lesser extent.) Take a popular character, have someone else be kind of an asshole to them but also be either impossible to get rid of or get around. Nobody likes reading about people they like getting stuck with annoying conflict that doesn't have a good outcome.
May showed up, screwed with Dale, cussed him out, and was a general pain in the ass.
Brun first harassed Clinton while Clinton was having a bad day, then threatened him with a shotgun. (Yes, this was later edited to be a threat made with a harpoon, but first impressions really do count.)
Bubbles gets off the best here - She just stonewalls Faye and is kinda rude. (But I also don't remember her getting much hate.)
Now, Tiffy is following the same pattern, and in fact is acting in almost the exact same way as May - Show up completely unannounced, harass the likeable character, and force them to either deal with a massive inconvenience or put up with an annoying, unhelpful companion for a short period of time. (It's almost uncanny how similar they are, in fact.)
If the pattern holds true, we will soon learn or see something sympathetic or humanizing about the character (The Tilly/Taffy thing comes to mind,) then we'll either learn some kind of Tragic Backstory or else something Tragic But Not Backstory will happen that will make the character really sympathetic and earn them forgiveness for being a pain in the butt earlier, and then they'll settle in to a more regular swing and develop some actual rapport once they start acting outside of the first person they're introduced with and once they're no longer being shoehorned into the interaction with the Likeable Character.
It's a formula that's getting kind of tired.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Shjade on 15 Nov 2017, 19:29 ---Unrelated to The Tilly Situation: anyone else digging Hannelore's just-out-of-the-shower Sonic the Hedgehog hairstyle?
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Hmm. Not really a fan of the hairstyle in general, but anything involving hedgehogs…
DaiJB:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 15 Nov 2017, 18:02 ---Probably because in her first panel of her first appearance, Tilly did introduce herself to Hannelore.
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...And then Hanners immediately called her mother, the woman who caused Hanners to attempt to disembowel herself with a guitar the first time she came to visit. During the call, Beatrice offhandedly got the name wrong and presumably, it stuck - with Hanners being in a flap ever since.
I suspect that this is just the sort of situation where neurotic, paranoid, obsessive Hannelore would mess up on the names, particularly when it is the Looming Presence of Ms. Beatrice Chatham who started it...
Penquin47:
I'm somewhat disturbed by Tilly's reaction to "should we kill her" being "if you do I won't be able to help you hide the body". Less the joking (I HOPE), more... just how many death threats has Tilly heard if she has a ready quip about it?
Dr. ROFLPWN:
tfw Hannelore is acting exactly like Beatrice without realizing it
but you have precisely no objections to this
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