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WCDT 4246-4250 (April 20th-24th, 2020)
Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, new person!
I hope not, but he's got a pattern going.
Theta9:
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--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 23 Apr 2020, 15:27 ---Wasn't there a strip where Clinton was talking about the possibility of not being straight, and he basically said something like "I think I am but I'm open to new data contradicting that"?
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Yep, https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3710
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About a 0.2 on the Kinsey scale, like me... Never had even a little sexual attraction to any man, but not ruling the possibility out entirely.
(When I mentioned my 0.2 self-rating to a friend, she asked "meaning, if it's in the dark and nobody will ever know...?" :laugh: )
hedgie:
I'm pretty low on the Kinsey scale, myself, and although there have been men that I have found attractive, considering that I am firmly heterormantic, and not really into the casual thing, the whole exercise is pretty much academic.
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Apr 2020, 23:26 ---Um, yes. I remember storylines that weren't solely about everybody hooking up with everybody else.
Roko's dysphoria? Bubbles' memories? Hannelore's relationship with her mother and father? Claire's exams and future career? Marten figuring out his life's goals? Dora's trust issues? Remember those? Should I go on?
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Those are all valid, of course, but except for Roko's dysphoria they are also storylines from pretty far back in the comic.
I have to admit that to me the storylines lately seem to be, say, meandering a little? And it does seem to be quite a bit about love interests (although that was always a big part of the comic anyway).
However, besides the fact that I don't mind it anyway, the fact that Brun is central to both the arc with Elliott and Clinton, and now with Millefeuille, makes me think Jeph has a specific longer arc surrounding Brun in mind related to all of this.
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Wait, how long ago IRL did Hanners get back from her soulsearching world tour after confronting her mom?
EDIT: incomplete thought, need sleep
Tova:
--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 24 Apr 2020, 06:32 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Apr 2020, 23:26 ---Um, yes. I remember storylines that weren't solely about everybody hooking up with everybody else.
Roko's dysphoria? Bubbles' memories? Hannelore's relationship with her mother and father? Claire's exams and future career? Marten figuring out his life's goals? Dora's trust issues? Remember those? Should I go on?
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Those are all valid, of course, but except for Roko's dysphoria they are also storylines from pretty far back in the comic.
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Yes, and although SeattleCrochetWoman did a good job of recapping some more recent storylines, that is precisely my point. Not only are they from pretty far back, almost all of them remain stubbornly unresolved. Almost as though Jeph simply doesn't know where to take them. Of the ones I mentioned, only the Bubbles' memories story was resolved. And I felt that even that resolution was abrupt and unsatisfying, as some of you would be aware.
--- Quote from: SeattleCrochetWoman on 23 Apr 2020, 21:42 ---Faye’s alcoholism and alcohol poisoning,and how she dealt with that. May’s problems with her chassis being substandard and Roko trying to get her a better one. Sam working at Union Robotics, and any storyline with Sam. Fay and Bubs starting Union Robotics before they became involved romantically. Any strip with Melon. Millie’s new butt. Claire and her mom getting high, and the dog that appeared or Claire’s mom found. Beeps and Roko’s evolving working relationship.
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The alcoholism one is kind of implicitly resolved, probably as much as it can be anyway (that can never be 100% resolved). The ones in involving Claire's Mum don't really need resolving (similarly the butt and Melon stories). Every other storyline mentioned here is still in the air.
The Faye+Bubbles storylines was the last time we really had a story with a number of interesting threads beside just "will they or won't they". And while there's nothing wrong with the current stories, it would be nice if there was a little more meat on the bones.
Is it too much to ask for us to revisit one of these unresolved storylines? Literally any of them? And not just "let's remind the viewer that this storyline still exists" like we periodically have with Marten's hopelessly undecided life goals. Actually progress them.
Because if the shippers are the only audience Jeph cares about now, just tell it to me straight so I can read something else.
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