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Author Topic: WCDT: 2588-2592 (02-06 December 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread  (Read 48333 times)

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Wasn't anime night a Justafriend get-together rather than a date?
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I don't think the parameters were strictly defined, so in some ways it was both, even if it wasn't specifically planned as either.
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Momo makes it sound like a dark ritual of some kind. COMMENCE THE TOUCHING OF BUTTS!
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What's funny is that Sarah and I didn't go on a proper date until we were already in a relationship.
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I don't know, guys. In this last strip she ran away to process her feelings, but seems to be pretty ok with the event. I feel like with that last panel she had shown her intention of seeing him again soon. I agree that she needed a bit to just process what just happened due to inexperience with feels, but she doesn't seem entirely uncomfortable with pursuing whatever is about to happen. Or maybe the next page is going to blow my theory to smithereens. Who knows.
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Momo makes it sound like a dark ritual of some kind. COMMENCE THE TOUCHING OF BUTTS!
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No results found for "commence the touching of butts".
And that's how you know Jeph is creating an original here!  8-)
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I don't get the strip's title, "Portishead's Most Beloved Album". Could someone who knows enough about Portishead to get it please fill me in?
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Would people here not consider their anime night a date?

I don't, not in the realistic sense. It was the first step towards a date but it wasn't yet a real, live, neutral territory, public place date.
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neutral territory, public place
Who said those are required elements of a date?
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neutral territory, public place
Who said those are required elements of a date?

With her anxiety and urge to flee it is to me, that way there is nobody to influence either of them and whatever happens is based on their own chemistry, fears, etc.

If that isn't the idea of a date then tie them both to chairs and force them to have a nice dinner and actually talk. Nobody flees, nobody disturbs them, nobody influences them either way. Just force them to face whatever is simmering between them one way or another.
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I don't get the strip's title, "Portishead's Most Beloved Album". Could someone who knows enough about Portishead to get it please fill me in?

I believe that's in reference to how Marigold feels about herself.

(See their second album's name.)
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If I might be Devil's Advocate for a moment, you are literally never free of other people's influence.

Especially someone who's internalized the kind of self-concepts and learned helplessness that Marigold seems to have.

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Momo makes it sound like a dark ritual of some kind. COMMENCE THE TOUCHING OF BUTTS!
I think Momo's been talking to Hannelore a lot; "the touching of butts" sounds like her.
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I hope they take it slowly. Do some growing up together. Then will I SQUEE.
Any resemblance between myself and Momo is purely coincidental. Really.
*SIGH* Who am I kidding?
 
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I feel like I'm repeating myself here, but I think it bears mentioning: people like Marigold rarely 'heal' enough to not run away from situations like this without actually going through times that they run away. Maybe I'm projecting a little too much, but we have a very strong alarm sense that we have to face down, and sometimes we have to step away a bit to quiet it.

This is a Marigold victory. No drugs, in public, for a few important minutes no fear. The fear comes back, and will probably never fully go away, but it can become more manageable.

Don't ever expect her to be anything like Dora or Tai or even Faye. She'll probably run away a few more times. But it also probably doesn't mean the same thing to her that it would to other characters.

That's my super-self-projecting theory at any rate.

This makes a lot of sense to me.
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jesus, can Marigold kiss someone without having to run away?

First, Angus.
Second, space dude.
Now, Dale.

Come on, girl.

I just thought of something...

What if next week space dude comes to visit and creates teh dramaz? Although this arc probably has enough dramaz as is.
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I hope they take it slowly. Do some growing up together. Then will I SQUEE.
Any resemblance between myself and Momo is purely coincidental. Really.
*SIGH* Who am I kidding?

You could make money on the side renting out the use of your social protocol database.
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So, time for the awkward setting up of their second date

Or more drama?
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So, time for the awkward setting up of their second date

Or more drama?

We can have both!
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Fool!  Your translations can never hope to capture the true spirit of the original:  żPor qué no los dos?

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I don't get it.
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The relevance of that image to the text (or to anything, really).
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"As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?"  (from: The Eccentric Family )

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So it  wasn't just me? I thought there was another pop culture reference that everyone else knew that was flying over my head.
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Ah, right.  Just remember that the readership of this forum is world-wide, and many such references are local to one country (and that some people have no interest in commercials either!).  That's OK, but sometimes there will be puzzlement over something you might feel is obvious - so explanations will be requested (as with the Portishead one as well, of course!).
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I probably wouldn't get a reference even to an advert which plays in the UK, since the only time I see ads is if I'm watching something on ITV player without an ad blocker (sometimes it functions, sometimes it doesn't).
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Which reminds me, there were some UK adverts playing on the TV at the bakery the other day.

You guys have weird adverts.

In particular, your advert for Pokémon X and Y sucks :P

The girl is an Internet meme, though.
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jesus, can Marigold kiss someone without having to run away?

First, Angus.
Second, space dude.
Now, Dale.

Come on, girl.

I just thought of something...

What if next week space dude comes to visit and creates teh dramaz? Although this arc probably has enough dramaz as is.

I thought the same thing. But I suspect it won't happen, since that would be too much of a coincidence.
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Francis the Space Dude shows up. He tries to call down laser wrath on Dale, but May hacks into the station's laser control software. Stalemate.

Marigold enters a convent.

Faye moves in with Angus full-time. Marten, unable to afford the rent on Dwight Street, moves into Marigold's room. No one thinks this is at all unusual.
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The girl is an Internet meme, though.

Interesting, thanks for the link! Of course, there are 20 gazillion internet memes by now, so nobody can keep up with them all.

Nobody with a life, anyway...  8-)
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