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WCDT Strips 3806-3810 (13-17 August 2018)
dutchrvl:
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--- Quote from: Annemoon on 14 Aug 2018, 04:34 ---But my more general problem, is that I feel that the comic story line itself seems to acknowledge it as strong 'carelessness' from Faye, which I feel uncomfortable with.
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I have to agree with this. Jeph seems to have started from the base concept of "Sam gets hurt because Faye is careless" and written backwards from there. That isn't a bad way to create narrative but, in this particular case, he doesn't seem to have been quite able to tell the story smoothly. It has the same feeling of being forced and awkward that I got from the Tilly & Hanners arc around the new year.
What makes reading these strips really strange is that even the characters seem to be aware that the plot is a bit forced. They're awkward in delivering their lines and keep on pausing at weird points as if they're saying in their heads: "Who the hell wrote this script?"
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Yeah I agree with you here. In fact, the Tilly arc to me did not come across as stilted/forced as the current one.
I don't know, a lot of the conversations just don't feel natural at all in how they play out. Maybe it's also due to Jeph being behind on the comics (including bonus comics) and having to rush a bit more?
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Aug 2018, 04:38 ---
--- Quote from: Annemoon on 14 Aug 2018, 04:34 ---But my more general problem, is that I feel that the comic story line itself seems to acknowledge it as strong 'carelessness' from Faye, which I feel uncomfortable with.
--- End quote ---
I have to agree with this. Jeph seems to have started from the base concept of "Sam gets hurt because Faye is careless" and written backwards from there. That isn't a bad way to create narrative but, in this particular case, he doesn't seem to have been quite able to tell the story smoothly. It has the same feeling of being forced and awkward that I got from the Tilly & Hanners arc around the new year.
What makes reading these strips really strange is that even the characters seem to be aware that the plot is a bit forced. They're awkward in delivering their lines and keep on pausing at weird points as if they're saying in their heads: "Who the hell wrote this script?"
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Ben, is is the plot or the dialog you're objecting to?
'Cause to me what happened is the natural result of the ingredients reacting with each other. Faye offering Sam a development opportunity, Sam doing something reckless in a workshop -- surprising it hasn't happened before! Jim's reacting like a parent whose kid got injured.
nightshade:
oh good lord ...talk about much ado about nothing ...if you live in a family where people use tools all the time heres how this would go
"kid cuts finger playing with saw hes not supposed to touch"
relative comes over stops bleeding puts bandaid calms kid down tells kid "see that's why ya don't mess with things you don't know how to use" mom says same thing but gives love tap to the back of the head and life goes on
I mean if she got cut in jr/sh shop class hes gonna take her outta class ?
note I come from a very long line of mechanics and carpenters ……...
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Aug 2018, 10:14 ---Ben, is is the plot or the dialog you're objecting to?
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Mostly characterisation; the characters just seem all wrong for some reason.
Is it cold in here?:
All of them?
We've watched Sam jump off a cliff. I thought the characterization rang true there.
Bubbles has shown Leadership Qualities before and her guidance to Sam seemed right to me.
Faye's more of a grownup in these few strips than she used to be, but that's part of established character growth.
Jim rang true to me even though (especially though?) he was unfair to Faye.
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