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WCDT strips 4381-4385 (Oct 26th to Oct 30th 2020)
Beast_Reborn:
God damn it, I should have known Clinton was going to fuck this up as soon as he chose this particular evening to pop the question on Brun. I agree that the situation, if not the evening, is hopefully recoverable, perhaps with mediation from Claire and/or Renee, but jeez. He's even beyond early-QC Faye levels of pointless self-sabotaging here.
Edit: Come to think of it, to further the comparison with Faye, remember the time Faye ran into Sven at a bar and was thrown similarly off-kilter (leading up to the "mighty glutes" line mentioned above). I don't think her reaction there was her fault, though, and that situation ended up being resolved better than this one has any right to be.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 28 Oct 2020, 19:26 ---And this is what... after two drinks?
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Clinton appears to weigh about 50 pounds. Two pint-sized glasses of high-alcohol not-Miller Lite beers affecting him strongly is believable.
Also, I don't think I like Clinton anymore. He's on a date, and talking to Elliot about how he's sniffing around Brun and thrown by how she disinterested she was. That's super hurtful, completely self-absorbed, and feckless. I'm now thinking it's better that Elliot stay away, since he's just going to get hurt if Clinton can't be bothered to think about his feelings.
Sure, it's just one slip, but there are some things that are fundamentally very revealing about a person's inner character. This one says Clinton doesn't think much about other people's feelings, even though he's on a date and should be very focused on them, and is a bit faithless since he was chasing Brun in his head even though he's got something potentially going on with Elliot. It lacks integrity.
It'll probably get papered over and forgotten, or his personality changed in some way, this being a comic strip, but that's my current reaction.
Can we go back to following Roko around for a while? Maybe she'll find love and sex and bread, eventually.
Beast_Reborn:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 28 Oct 2020, 20:32 ---Also, I don't think I like Clinton anymore. He's on a date, and talking to Elliot about how he's sniffing around Brun and thrown by how she disinterested she was. That's super hurtful, completely self-absorbed, and feckless. I'm now thinking it's better that Elliot stay away, since he's just going to get hurt if Clinton can't be bothered to think about his feelings.
Sure, it's just one slip, but there are some things that are fundamentally very revealing about a person's inner character. This one says Clinton doesn't think much about other people's feelings, even though he's on a date and should be very focused on them, and is a bit faithless since he was chasing Brun in his head even though he's got something potentially going on with Elliot. It lacks integrity.
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Well, it's not necessarily a "date" in the normal sense, given that Clinton didn't give Elliott an answer beforehand, and Elliott is at work, so they weren't going to spend the whole time talking to each other anyway. But besides that quibble, yes, he's being gratuitously hurtful as well as stupid. I was never quite as pissed off at Corpse Witch as I now am at Clinton, which I suppose says a lot about how I'm reading this story.
Farideh:
Agreed. This is not a date: it's Clinton hanging out with Elliot while he's working. Still, for Clinton to then bump into Brun, ask her if she's interested, and then to vent about Brun to his other potential love interest... It's beyond the pale. Clinton'd better GROVEL once he sobers up.
MrNumbers:
To be fair it feels like the only reason he managed to ask Brun now was because he was on a date, not because he was pursuing her here.
But, yes, this is very dumb
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