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DaiJB:

--- Quote from: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 16 Nov 2017, 20:04 ---An explosion is approaching.   And I don't mean the espresso machine.

--- End quote ---

Well, knowing the reputation of Coffee of Doom, exploding espresso machines could still be involved :-D

Oh Tilly, please think - this is Hannelore's work. She serves coffee. You are going to have to sit down and watch your "employer" perform service industry work for the next eight hours - and at a wage probably inferior to your own...  :-P

If that doesn't get Tilly pondering the ridiculousness of her position, nothing will!

de_la_Nae:
right so i'm in a very bad place emotionally these days, but boy do i hate taffy

i mean i'm not saying it's a bad arc but if i'm *supposed* to hate that boundary-violating pushy little jerk, well mission accomplished.

de_la_Nae:
'ooh look at me the objectively evil corporate murderer mom ordered me to go take over her daughter's life i better do that i'm all cheery and excited i'm taffy woooooooooo'

:/

Edited because smilies ruin everything

de_la_Nae:
it is a cute design jeph is right about that.

oddtail:
OK, so I was all ready to jump on the "hate Tilly" bandwagon, but today's comic actually made me change my mind somewhat.

Why? Because of the way she reacts here.

Tilly is jumping over a counter, which to me reads less as a "she's overeager" and more like "she's so desperate to 'help' that it's becoming unnerving". In a vacuum, it would be a cute little moment, but she's jumping the counter in a *complete one-eighty* to what she was doing a second ago. Yes, she was told by Dora to not be behind the counter, but she obliged, and after like a few seconds, she seems to have completely ignored, disregarded or forgotten it.

To me, it doesn't read as overeager behaviour. To me, it reads like an automatic response of a kind that's more than a little disconcerting. I know I'm probably reading too much into it, but such drastic shifts of behaviour for a minor reason suggest to me that she's been brainwashed, or abused (and not in a comedic way), or otherwise forced to "help" Hannelore to the exclusion of everything else. This is one step beyond "comical" to me, especially considering who her employer is. Tilly was never funny to me, but now her downright Pavlovian responses are more chilling than anything. YMMV.

Incidentally, in a world with super-technology, with sapient AI and basically on the verge of the Singularity (or beyond it, depending on what we don't see), people like Beatrice are still in power. Beatrice is not merely a "bad rich person", she is implied to be able to do whatever she wants. Yeah, do NOT sign me up for a future like this.

EDIT: also, I know Hannelore is a popular character, but as much as I dislike Tilly, the reactions to her seem like a "we know this person, so we'll hate that other person", which is a reaction I (in my opinion) have seen in the forum before. I will be very happy if this new character goes away soon, because she's annoying and not interesting, but I still think getting someone's name constantly wrong just because they were forced upon you is a shitty thing to do. I understand Hanners' reaction, but that doesn't mean I like it. And I don't like how it's apparently played up for comedy's sake. It's still not funny, to me personally.

EDIT 2: also also, wasn't it against the forum's rules (and enforced, IIRC) to misspell a real person's *or* a character's name? I didn't know it included a "I don't like this character, so I can do that" clause.

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