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WCDT 4406-4410 (Nov 30th to Dec 4th, 2020)
FreshScrod:
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--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 02 Dec 2020, 09:38 ---Is Yemisi Jeph's new favorite character? Whom we are supposed to fall in love with? Like Tilly?
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... can she please commit an actual sin before we break out the New-Character-Must-Die pitchforks?
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I think it might be more about not wanting to get used to a character that's going to go away. I'm not a big fan of change, and I can definitely see that as a legitimate concern. I happen to really like Tilly, doncha knowit? But don't think bringing them back is gonna do much good for the strip, or the character. They exist in a sort of perfect state right now, that I'd rather have not messed up. I would like to see more of them, if well written, but it'd take some reworking of the story to let it glide to a place where that's possible. I'd love to see more of Station, too, but that would take a lot out of the present situation. Maybe as a spin-off comic, but I'm sure Jeph has his hands full with a consistent 5-days-a-week strip - I wouldn't wanna axolotl them.
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oddtail:
--- Quote from: Case on 02 Dec 2020, 10:09 ---
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 02 Dec 2020, 09:38 ---Is Yemisi Jeph's new favorite character? Whom we are supposed to fall in love with? Like Tillie?
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Here we go again ...
... can she please commit an actual sin before we break out the New-Character-Must-Die pitchforks?
Please?
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I'd like previous characters to be developed a bit more, and the comic tends to have a sort of treadmill with secondary character where they fade into the background in time, even IF they remain part of the cast, and fill their own niche rather than being more explored. If it's a character I don't like, it doesn't bother me, but I suspect I dislike at least some of them because they were underutilised.
The new character might end up being good, but I have my doubts if the expiration date on the new character will be longer than for other characters that were introduced and later just sort of went away. And anticipating that kinda makes me lose my investment in the new cast member from the get-go.
Farideh:
Not every new character has to be a main one, though? Personally I'm fine with someone being introduced just to move the plot along (like Tilly) and then disappearing again.
St.Clair:
All of this is terribly familiar to me as a onetime fan of the works of Rumiko Takahashi (manga artist/creator), who - between artistic preference and/or the demands of syndication - had a strong tendency to rarely resolve or progress story arcs and characters, merely add wacky new ones whenever things started to slow down. Which is a fantastic way to draw things out and keep any given series going forever as long as it's popular and profitable, but tends to frustrate people looking for closure or lasting character development.
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: Farideh on 02 Dec 2020, 14:32 ---Not every new character has to be a main one, though? Personally I'm fine with someone being introduced just to move the plot along (like Tilly) and then disappearing again.
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Which, it seems, is absolutely the point. She's written in there to move along the Roko/Yay storyline, possibly to spark Roko into laying down the law and drawing some new social boundaries between her and Yay.
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