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(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
JoeCovenant:
Probably TOTALLY over-thinking this, but...
I'd like the El/Bru/Clin triangle resolved mainly because this constant dancing around is starting to get a little dull.
I'd like to see Roko a bit more as I like the character.
Bubbles and Faye... Never liked the shipping of them, but still think Bubbles character is the best realised in the strip... and seeing Faye as a foil for this is really underusing her.
Marten/Claire... Purely for the strip's benefit, they need to split up. Of the male characters in the strip, all of them seem to be taking a back seat in recent times. I'm afraid I don't find many of them particularly interesting, but I always liked Marten's character (more relatable I suppose) and his relationship with Claire has thrown him so far into the background that his recent strip with Pintsize was like finding an old friend. The dynamics of Marten and Faye were always worth reading, and Marten and Dora was an excellent study of how a dysfunctional relationship can still work, and also be entertaining (and sometimes moving) to read. I always found the Marten/Claire dynamic dull... and their lack of strip time sort of backs that up.
I was going somewhere with this, but it took me so long to write the above, I forgot what it was...
Joy.
efindumb:
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--- Quote from: Bad Superman on 29 Apr 2018, 22:22 ---I voted for Marten/Claire, mostly because I still regard Marten as part of the "main cast" (I even used to think of him as the main character, but that belief is long gone), and he hasn't got much spotlight for quite some time now. I realize that his and Claire's story might not be very high on everyone's priority list right now, but still…
Considering today's comic we might get more Faye/Bubbles this week, and I'm perfectly fine with that because Bubbles behavior towards Faye just has such an innocent quality to it… It's adorable.
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There's only two things Jeph can really do with the couple: split them up or marry them off. They are already sexual and live together, the next step forward is marriage. Conversely, the next step back is breaking up over something one of them may do but given the personalities, neither will break it off.
So they are stagnant, especially Marten. At least Claire has a chance to develop in other ways but Jeph isn't going down that road yet....perhaps a backstory arc?
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Mature behavior just isn't very entertaining. If it was, Jerry Springer would have no television career.
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And it's why Dora hasn't been featured in a long time, her Coffee of Doom appearances aside. The two most unstable characters have now turned into the most stable, while the most stable in the past has now turned into the most unstable...Faye's breakdown could have turned the world upside down!
efindumb:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 29 Apr 2018, 22:35 ---
--- Quote from: efindumb on 29 Apr 2018, 22:31 ---
--- Quote from: Bad Superman on 29 Apr 2018, 22:22 ---I voted for Marten/Claire, mostly because I still regard Marten as part of the "main cast" (I even used to think of him as the main character, but that belief is long gone), and he hasn't got much spotlight for quite some time now. I realize that his and Claire's story might not be very high on everyone's priority list right now, but still…
Considering today's comic we might get more Faye/Bubbles this week, and I'm perfectly fine with that because Bubbles behavior towards Faye just has such an innocent quality to it… It's adorable.
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There's only two things Jeph can really do with the couple: split them up or marry them off. They are already sexual and live together, the next step forward is marriage. Conversely, the next step back is breaking up over something one of them may do but given the personalities, neither will break it off.
So they are stagnant, especially Marten. At least Claire has a chance to develop in other ways but Jeph isn't going down that road yet....perhaps a backstory arc?
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They could have a fight that sends Claire into something of a panic because this is her first serious relationship and she's messing it up, but Marten has learned from Dora and Padma and does better about actively pursuing her to talk it out?
We know Claire's a grad student but we don't know how far into her program she is; she can freak out over what she's going to do next and how that's going to affect things with Marten.
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He has a limited range of options for her employment, either a public library or a college library. She could end up in a choice of moving away to accept the job or staying there and hoping a job opens up in the region...or in other words, it's Angus and Faye all over again.
BenRG:
Personally, I think that it is possible to do things with Marten and Dora without creating entirely artificial DRAMA! as that is, IMO, lazy writing.
My favourite Marten ideas is for him to pursue his musical ambitions (perhaps by writing works for Deathmøle or maybe Sven) or maybe stumbling backwards into music criticism and journalism by way of the Professor of Music at Smif being very impressed with is blog. With regard to Dora, I'd like for her and Tai to be seen confronting her parents and their role in Dora's neuroses.
Being a romantic at heart, I've long wanted an arc where Marten proposes to Claire at Coffee of Doom (after hiring the place for a 'private party', something that Dora never thought that would ever happen). Naturally, it all gets awkward because of the number of former crushes and GFs who end up attending to congratulate him and approve of his choice on several levels.
Welu:
My birthday strip this year is more fuel on the Faye/Bubbles fire. I'm okay with this.
Has Bubbles always had the seam line around her pelvis? Or has it been hidden by shorts or trousers? It looks a little odd with the leotard, more action figure-y and less like she's wearing something.
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