And the moral of this strip is that, if you’re going to be a good guy and own up to a little mildly reprehensible behaviour, you have to commit to it. There’s no point in starting and then changing the subject; that just makes things worse.
OllieOrOlly wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 9:52 am
I'm curious as to how *wild* Peggy's college days were because I doubt they were exactly "wild" in the same vein as the spy shoot-out scene...
I assume about the same as what most people describe as a “wild” phase; a bit too much drink, a lot of late-night parties, probably some drugs (strictly at the soft end of the scale, because Peggy is still Peggy), maybe even some petty crime for kicks, and doubtless a fair amount of sex, some of it unconventional, drunken, or poorly timed. No, none of it on the same level as a shoot-out, but still indicative that the person leading you into it has a weak sense of personal respondibility — which, if allowed to ripen, can lead tto something worse. Like homicide.
samtheman wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:09 am
Welp, it's looking like Gary's FWB relationship with Peggy isn't going to last much longer.
Oh, it doesn’t have to go that bad — because if Gary comes clean, well, Peggy is generally sane. Accidentally eavesdropping on a friend is impolite, but doesn’t have to be a relationship-breaker. And this just looks like a standard tangled-web-of-fibs joke.
And I wish we would get the wrap-up arc for Dillon's comic already but that can keeps getting kicked further down the road.
If this strip is ends the arc, as does seem possible, well, I’m living in the wild and foolish hope that we might cut across there next. But no, you’re right. I’m sure that Giz really does want to wrap that up, but the gap between wanting to do something and actually
doing it can be abyssal.
worldshaking00 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:51 am
As far as the police, no idea. There's plenty of spy drama where a 'cleaner' comes by to remove evidence/bodies... or the assassins got their own...or Bianca's side claimed the body... or Peggy just booked the scene. We don't know, and probably never will. The gunfight scene sounded like a joke - a punchline - to explain off being
too excited. While someone in power knows she was there, I doubt they will need Peggy there to fill in any blanks. Besides, a police interrogation usually doesn't fit inside a rom-com.
Yeah, agreed. I mean, TCampbell’s superior fanfic speculation isn’t too implausible, if you want an imaginary chain of events that can explain things, but honestly it feels like giving the writers too much credit. The gunfight scene was a wacky exercise in hurtling out of genre, and doesn’t have to make sense. I mean, it’s not like everything else in Ma3 makes perfect sense under close examination.
TCampbell wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 2:48 pm
The narrative that the relationship between them is "loveless" baffles me. The mere fact that DiDi seems to be demisexual (which would probably have been an issue with Lynn) would seem to contradict that. I realize we probably didn't show enough of their non-sexual bonding after the Overlord arc to set this up, but I have to wonder what evidence, if any, would sway opinion toward the relationship being genuine at this point.
Well, to start with, you probably need to show Zii actually expressing
love for DiDi. She’s expressed shiploads of sexual desire and admiration for DiDi’s sexual attractiveness, and occasionally a little casual friendship, but very little love that I can recall. When someone has repeatedly been shown thinking “bloody hell I want to fuck X six ways to Friday” and very rarely if ever thinking “gosh X is a nice person”, readers are likely to jump to the wild and crazy conclusion that their relationship to X is based on lust rather than love.
And secondly, you need to deal with the problem that we’ve seen Zii developing a more genuine-looking relationship — with Gary. When a few nice words from him can blow the top off her desire-ometer, and she’s been shown casting longing looks back at him while wandering off with DiDi only a strip ago,
that looks like a “genuine” relationship, and the DiDi thing seems to be flagged as a mistake. Especially when DiDi has been shown as willing to run off and fuck someone else with a minimal excuse.
To me, the MA3 cast has its good points and bad like most people, but there aren't any I consider hate-worthy.
Except Nathan and Yvan.
Am I the only reader to find Takeru far more disgusting than either of those two?