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WCDT Strips 3636 to 3640 (18th to 22nd December 2017)
Magniras:
Aw. Damn. Tilly's idealism and hope getting crushed somehow hurts a bit more than the death of a family relationship.
Sure Tilly might have been a bit annoying, but no one deserves to hear that they got used.
WoaLG:
I can't help but read the "f l u i d s" at the bottom of the page the same way that Faye says "Face meats"
Tova:
SO if you hated Tilly because they hurt Hanners, and now not only has Tilly expressed remorse for doing so, but Hanners has also clearly forgiven them, my question to you is - can you do the same?
BenRG:
The thing that I got from this strip is that Tilly is obviously a lot younger than I thought. 'Straight out of school' means probably 21 or 22 to me; younger than any of the human main cast (except for Sam) who are mostly in their late 20s and even approaching the 'big 3-0'. I honestly thought that she was closer to the others' age and this was a 'big break' to get out of the lower echelons of ECI. I'm wondering if Jeph is planning to play on that with Tilly being the 'baby' of the cast whom the others feel obliged to act as protectors/mentors.
It should not come as no surprise that Hannelore did what she did here. For all her fears and neuroses, Hannelore is a tremendously empathetic and compassionate personality. She would not be able to remain detached when someone is in pain, no matter what difficulties that would impose on her later on.
Maybe any Patreon donors on this board can answer this for me: Are the bonus strips 'non-canon' one-off jokes or 'extra stories for colour', filling in the characters' personalities and relationships in ways that don't contribute to the narrative in any way?
MrNumbers:
I just don't like them as a character. It's not a forgiveness thing, because they're not a real person, they're a literary device, and I didn't think they were effective as one.
It's not hatred. It's not big or pronounced. She's just boring and mildly irritating. And it's annoying because this comic wasn't otherwise lacking for a cast of more interesting characters to use.
I get why a character was introduced here. Hannelore needed something to be inciting action to cut ties with her mother, and the best way to do that was for her mother to use her and hurt an innocent person in the process. That's a brilliant plotline, and I enjoy it immensely.
I'd just rather a character more like, say, Jonah from Bojack Horseman be used. A quiet, calm, competent and very respectful PA who actually read the dossier, and just did a lot of small unobtrusive things that were weird but made Hannelore weirdly happy.
I'm thinking gags like when she's in the shower, he opens all the really difficult jars for her while wearing sterile gloves, then leaves again without a word, just to go out of the way to be unnoticable. Weird enough to be uncomfortable, but genuinely helpful and beneficial to Hannelore's life to make her feel conflicted about the situation.
Instead we've had Hannelore be the backup spoon drawer for a new character that hasn't earned it, because they need to steal spotlight to jumpstart their position in the story. It's trying to power-level a character by forcing a dynamic -- which happened rather literally -- and that's a really... obnoxious form of storytelling to me. Because instead of just being able to focus on the really interesting Hannelore storyline, it's now the Hannelore and Tilly storyline, and I couldn't possibly care less about a full half of that, and it makes me resentful for having to sit through it to be able to focus on the Hannelore parts I do like.
It's not Pinkie, Elmyra and the Brain bad, nowhere near the levels of what Fairly Odd Parents has become, but it still annoys me on a mechanical level.
EDIT: These paragraphs brought to you by the letter "I"
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