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WCDT strips 3961-3965 (18-22 March 2019)
TheEvilDog:
Melon, to me, kinda feels like the same type of joke told repeatedly.
Tormuse:
I just think it's cute that Melon is like, "aha! I can finally get the better of someone for once." :)
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 21 Mar 2019, 10:11 ---Melon, to me, kinda feels like the same type of joke told repeatedly.
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I made no secret of feeling the same way.
Recently, though, I was *almost* ready to cut her some slack. For some reason, today's comic reset me to not liking her appearances. I can't quite put my finger on why.
EDIT: it might be that it's my pet peeve when people (fictional or otherwise) impose the way they act or think upon others. When someone acts or reacts unusually, I'm fine with this (or consciously try to be, at least). Even when it's very unusual and even somewhat disruptive for others. But when those same people act like others share in their experience, I immediately go to "no, it's all you".
Maybe it's because I've had to spend a lot of my life figuring out how others seem to think and feel extremely unlike the way I tend to, but people who are either unable or unwilling to step outside their heads at ALL and just kind of assume everyone is like them rub me the wrong way. I don't exactly *blame* Melon, because she seems to be cognitively impaired in some way, but character development like this still... I don't know what word to use. Unsettles me? Annoys me?
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 21 Mar 2019, 11:08 ---
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 21 Mar 2019, 10:11 ---Melon, to me, kinda feels like the same type of joke told repeatedly.
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I made no secret of feeling the same way.
Recently, though, I was *almost* ready to cut her some slack. For some reason, today's comic reset me to not liking her appearances. I can't quite put my finger on why.
EDIT: it might be that it's my pet peeve when people (fictional or otherwise) impose the way they act or think upon others. When someone acts or reacts unusually, I'm fine with this (or consciously try to be, at least). Even when it's very unusual and even somewhat disruptive for others. But when those same people act like others share in their experience, I immediately go to "no, it's all you".
Maybe it's because I've had to spend a lot of my life figuring out how others seem to think and feel extremely unlike the way I tend to, but people who are either unable or unwilling to step outside their heads at ALL and just kind of assume everyone is like them rub me the wrong way. I don't exactly *blame* Melon, because she seems to be cognitively impaired in some way, but character development like this still... I don't know what word to use. Unsettles me? Annoys me?
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That is a good reason to not like someone.
Yes, Melon probably only was intented more as comic relief, but she's fully canon now. Up to now every character of some regularity got some kind of redemption possibility. If there's no place for Melon to grow, she'll be restricted to what she is: a slight nuisance, used as comic relief. Or she'll be eaten by an allobot.
Also, I've got the feeling the more people start complaining about Melon in a certain way, the more Melon we'll see.
War Sparrow:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 21 Mar 2019, 11:08 ---<snip>
Maybe it's because I've had to spend a lot of my life figuring out how others seem to think and feel extremely unlike the way I tend to, but people who are either unable or unwilling to step outside their heads at ALL and just kind of assume everyone is like them rub me the wrong way. I don't exactly *blame* Melon, because she seems to be cognitively impaired in some way, but character development like this still... I don't know what word to use. Unsettles me? Annoys me?
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Some people, or characters, just make your brain itch. It's understandable. And then you feel bad, especially when they can't help it.
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