Get along, tolerate, poke with a stick 63 hours into their Complete GoT marathon to see if they’re alive…
Doctor_Who
If they’re on season 8, they probably regret the whole alive thing.
UnfrozenNeanderthal
Season 8 honestly isn’t the worst season. It’s bad, but most of the hate is because it made the decline in quality undeniable
Season 5 is the nadir of the show in my eyes. It’s the point where the writers just stop trying, and it’s also just an offensively bad adaptation of the fourth and fifth books.
Chexwarrior
I started watching when they were in season 5 or 6, so the first 6 all run together for me, but I wonder if the reason the hate for 8 is so vocal is because it represents terminal badness. Like you can watch season 5 and hope that the intrigues and plots are building to something cool, even if the writers aren’t trying as hard as they used to, but season 8 is everything crashing to a rushed an unsatisfying end so there’s no hope that it will pay off to something better.
Hey now, Jennifer is a better roommate than Becky.
He Who Abides
Not a high bar.
Shaith86
This particular bar is actually buried in the dirt, you could be crawling around on the ground, doing your best “Hasslehoff eating a cheeseburger” impression and still clear it.
it does kinda feel like there are a lot of people whom are horribly lonely in the cast in one way or another, but Lucy’s loneliness kind of hurts to see. I think if I were to pick someone in the cast for putting on suicide watch, Lucy would near the top of the list.
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
In my opinion, the story hasn’t really focused on Lucy, so she could very well have non-neighbor friends we just haven’t seen, especially since the time skip. She might be part of some clubs on campus, but if she didn’t join any her first semester, that also isn’t unusual.
Casual confidence without being, well, Joe is a pretty big qualifier when you’re that age.
I mean Ethan is a noted hot dude but he spent all day buried in his phone yelling at internet people half the time and the other half the time being a doormat.
Thats what I don’t get or I’m not seeing (not saying you’re wrong) all I see is a selfish, immature, cowardly, passive jerk, I don’t see anything equating to confidence (arrogance or naivety maybe)
Nono
That’s all stuff you might decide are dealbreakers a bit further into a serious relationship. At first glance Walky could just as seemingly be a guy who’s not really ashamed of what he likes – nuggets, cartoons, memes. It’s not a bad kind of quiet confidence (or as quiet as Walky can get).
As for the three characters who’ve shown romantic interest in Walky:
With Lucy it’s pretty much just a crush. He’s a seemingly nice boy who talked to her every now and then without brushing her off. It’s pretty surface level.
With Amber, they had a mutual love of self-deprecation preventing them from really trying to impress the other person. The attraction seemed to be mostly physical at any rate, and it was only the stuff like Sal that was a bigger barrier.
Dorothy being his major relationship, his very blunt, uncomplicated attitude worked well to cut through her constant stress and overworrying. There were definitely times when his immaturity caused issues like with the pajama jeans, but just as often Walky also showed to Dorothy actual efforts to improve in both romance and math, an undisturbed belief in her future greatness instead of believing he could just follow her around anywhere, and a much needed distraction when she needed it.
Mind I don’t like Walky myself, but it’s not that unbelievable that his unflappableness can attract people. Having a spine at that age can keep people around longer more compared to being easily walked over like Ethan or Danny.
MrSmith
I can see the point you’re making and its probably not that far off the mark, I guess I find it hard to get past my own negative viewpoint of Walky
Sirksome
All fair points…….My counterargument would be that it’s college and they’re all a bunch of horny teens with fairly low standards on what’s good relationship material. Walky’s a harmless guy who I guess some people would consider funny? Also he’s decently good looking if you can get past the smell. That’s all you need. Don’t overthink it.
Tunasammich
Am I the only one who thinks Walky isn’t that terrible? He’s just a goober
All you need to know about why Walky is attractive to some people is that strip where the guy he said was the most important in the room was the waiter.
Like, he is decent-looking, funny, generally nice, laidback and when he is speaking with confidence, he has some kickass views like Dorothy will be someone great and that the waiter is more important than some politician. He has a charm and appeal to him.
His more negative traits aren’t really an issue until further in the relationship and 90% are very likely uncontrolled ADHD + lack of maturity + pushing things more than he should like with Joyce.
In the short-term, he is everything you want in a guy to date because in good times, he is fun and pleasant! But in the long-term, his ADHD pretty much backstabs him so his lack of filter, lack of sensitivity, lack of impulse-control, lack of focus control all seem like lack of care or social awareness which will eventually upset someone or wear you down when you know the person isn’t learning to correct it or control it better.
Agreed. And even in the relationship we saw fall apart, none of that was what caused Dorothy to break up unless you consider his slipping grades with her slipping grades a combined issue.
I have hope for Walky. He’s been getting enough character development that I think he will eventually figure out when he’s pushing others too far and that he needs some strategies for neurodiverse brains.
Timescale being what it is, Lucy would have been approximately four when the last episode of Teen Titans classic aired. She is, however, currently the exact right age for Go! when it started airing, provided she had a pretty high threshold for the absolutely chaotic sense of humor. (Pretty sure Go STARTS its Wackiness Levels around the alien fast food chain-cow abduction episode of the 2003 show.)
It’s too wacky for me these days, but I did love said fast food chain episode as a kid. And even Shortpacked Lucy had… self-awareness, at least, about Go as a series.
Do wish Cartoon Network were a bit more willing to do serial shows without pulling things like the Steven Bombs, though. *Sigh* But that’s as much my eternal bitterness for the DC Nation block as a whole. (I’m very happy for Young Justice fans but as a GLTAS person… *sobs*)
Sirksome
TT Go is such a weird show. It’s simultaneously too wacky and childish for most Teen Titans fans who grew up with the original, yet it has some of the most legitimately funny satire of superhero tropes you’ll find, while also referencing to shows outside it’s age demographic like Gilligan’s Island, and making adult jokes that so borderline innappropriate you question how it got past the censors. Like Beastboy flipping jizzing all over Wonder Woman! The show is insane. Also it’s popularity might have gotten us one more season of Teen Titans so I can’t hate it.
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Nono
I feel like if it wasn’t so attached to the original TT series it would be less polarizing. I can think of plenty of shows from back in the day that skirted closely to the line in terms of inappropriateness, but because they weren’t like, a franchise show people didn’t rage over it.
Discussion (138) - “Catch up”
Ana Chronistic
WHOA INTERACTION
WHAT
DO ROOMMATES DO THIS I DON’T UNDERSTAND
Kyrik Michalowski
It helps if you get along with your roommate or actually know them prior to college.
Nono
Get along, tolerate, poke with a stick 63 hours into their Complete GoT marathon to see if they’re alive…
Doctor_Who
If they’re on season 8, they probably regret the whole alive thing.
UnfrozenNeanderthal
Season 8 honestly isn’t the worst season. It’s bad, but most of the hate is because it made the decline in quality undeniable
Season 5 is the nadir of the show in my eyes. It’s the point where the writers just stop trying, and it’s also just an offensively bad adaptation of the fourth and fifth books.
Chexwarrior
I started watching when they were in season 5 or 6, so the first 6 all run together for me, but I wonder if the reason the hate for 8 is so vocal is because it represents terminal badness. Like you can watch season 5 and hope that the intrigues and plots are building to something cool, even if the writers aren’t trying as hard as they used to, but season 8 is everything crashing to a rushed an unsatisfying end so there’s no hope that it will pay off to something better.
Reed
i want so much better for lucy
mm-s
Agree so hard.
Nono
Somehow I think Jennifer is the lesser evil foisted onto Lucy compared to her self-imposed seeking out of Walky.
tim gueguen
At this point a cardboard cutout of Ted Cruz would be a better roommate.
Jamie
But not a better unrequited crush.
Nono
Hey now, Jennifer is a better roommate than Becky.
He Who Abides
Not a high bar.
Shaith86
This particular bar is actually buried in the dirt, you could be crawling around on the ground, doing your best “Hasslehoff eating a cheeseburger” impression and still clear it.
Matthew Wells
Hard disagree. You’d have to look at Ted Cruz occasionally.
He Who Abides
If it’s a cardboard cutout, you can shove it behind a bookshelf or under a mattress and, y’know, not look at it.
Vabolo
Mauling a cardboard cutout is also *not* a felony!
Shaith86
Anyone else having flashbacks to Mighty Ducks 2 when talking about taking cardboard cutouts and the mauling/destruction thereof?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUw7ArW5TA
Wizard
Or just turn it around to face the wall.
UnfrozenNeanderthal
that’s not a roommate, that’s a dartboard
JA
Whoa now, let’s try to avoid such extremes.
Alexander Hammil
why is she not in the sci fi club or something? does lucy have friends? where are lucy’s non-neighbor friends?
Daniel M Ball
it does kinda feel like there are a lot of people whom are horribly lonely in the cast in one way or another, but Lucy’s loneliness kind of hurts to see. I think if I were to pick someone in the cast for putting on suicide watch, Lucy would near the top of the list.
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
In my opinion, the story hasn’t really focused on Lucy, so she could very well have non-neighbor friends we just haven’t seen, especially since the time skip. She might be part of some clubs on campus, but if she didn’t join any her first semester, that also isn’t unusual.
Seregiel
This is so much better than Malaya. Who was her standard.
Sirksome
Who is they I wonder? Answer. The biker gang Jennifer joined during the time skip!
Giguioto
Jennifer won Sal’s bike on a bet and now drives it with her bf and new friends.
You can’t change my mind.
Clif
Mike/Booster and Amazigirl/GhostMike, as the three plot their next move.
He Who Abides
He is they!
Keulen
I’m assuming “they” is Asher and some other people he hangs around with.
Needfuldoer
That bodes well.
TrueVCU
Social interaction completed end of interaction [/NeutralJanet]
cmasta1992
Lucy is my favorite and I want so much for her this semester.
DailyBrad
Aww. I mean, it’s not exactly high marks, but it’s still decidedly nicer than Lucy was getting from her before.
Speaking of, kinda hope we see Lucy more often. She’s a good egg.
He Who Abides
If she’s a good egg, does that mean we’re gonna start calling it “Lucy-ing it up”?
Needfuldoer
Can anyone in the cast do a good Desi Arnaz impression?
Proto_Eevee
A FRIENDSHIP BLOSSOMED AND WE DIDN’T GET TO SEE IT
Keulen
And we didn’t get to see Halloween. And I’m still mad at Willis for killing off Mike.
Nono
Jennifer asking Lucy if she’s okay is… a marked improvement, I suppose.
Clif
I’m surprised she mustered the effort.
Clif
Mustard. MUSTARD THE EFFORT. Why does spellmangle want to change mustard.to mustered and ruin the joke. And why spellmangle to deplorable?
Blindness
..you had the right spelling. Muster means to assemble, gather, collect so it’s the right spelling
Minim
I think Clif was going for a pun a la the mouseover text.
Reltzik
I don’t see how that joke works, though. They’re living in dorms, not a condomentium.
Clif
To quote someone, “have a damn Internet.”
MrSmith
No Becky plus the addition of Lucy make this a good strip
Kinda hoping Lucy realises she can do better, a lot better, than Walky though
I genuinely do not understand (except through massive suspensions of belief) how Walky manages to attract as many women as he does
Nono
Casual confidence without being, well, Joe is a pretty big qualifier when you’re that age.
I mean Ethan is a noted hot dude but he spent all day buried in his phone yelling at internet people half the time and the other half the time being a doormat.
MrSmith
Thats what I don’t get or I’m not seeing (not saying you’re wrong) all I see is a selfish, immature, cowardly, passive jerk, I don’t see anything equating to confidence (arrogance or naivety maybe)
Nono
That’s all stuff you might decide are dealbreakers a bit further into a serious relationship. At first glance Walky could just as seemingly be a guy who’s not really ashamed of what he likes – nuggets, cartoons, memes. It’s not a bad kind of quiet confidence (or as quiet as Walky can get).
As for the three characters who’ve shown romantic interest in Walky:
With Lucy it’s pretty much just a crush. He’s a seemingly nice boy who talked to her every now and then without brushing her off. It’s pretty surface level.
With Amber, they had a mutual love of self-deprecation preventing them from really trying to impress the other person. The attraction seemed to be mostly physical at any rate, and it was only the stuff like Sal that was a bigger barrier.
Dorothy being his major relationship, his very blunt, uncomplicated attitude worked well to cut through her constant stress and overworrying. There were definitely times when his immaturity caused issues like with the pajama jeans, but just as often Walky also showed to Dorothy actual efforts to improve in both romance and math, an undisturbed belief in her future greatness instead of believing he could just follow her around anywhere, and a much needed distraction when she needed it.
Mind I don’t like Walky myself, but it’s not that unbelievable that his unflappableness can attract people. Having a spine at that age can keep people around longer more compared to being easily walked over like Ethan or Danny.
MrSmith
I can see the point you’re making and its probably not that far off the mark, I guess I find it hard to get past my own negative viewpoint of Walky
Sirksome
All fair points…….My counterargument would be that it’s college and they’re all a bunch of horny teens with fairly low standards on what’s good relationship material. Walky’s a harmless guy who I guess some people would consider funny? Also he’s decently good looking if you can get past the smell. That’s all you need. Don’t overthink it.
Tunasammich
Am I the only one who thinks Walky isn’t that terrible? He’s just a goober
crow
Walky’s a chill dude.
Sam
All you need to know about why Walky is attractive to some people is that strip where the guy he said was the most important in the room was the waiter.
Like, he is decent-looking, funny, generally nice, laidback and when he is speaking with confidence, he has some kickass views like Dorothy will be someone great and that the waiter is more important than some politician. He has a charm and appeal to him.
His more negative traits aren’t really an issue until further in the relationship and 90% are very likely uncontrolled ADHD + lack of maturity + pushing things more than he should like with Joyce.
In the short-term, he is everything you want in a guy to date because in good times, he is fun and pleasant! But in the long-term, his ADHD pretty much backstabs him so his lack of filter, lack of sensitivity, lack of impulse-control, lack of focus control all seem like lack of care or social awareness which will eventually upset someone or wear you down when you know the person isn’t learning to correct it or control it better.
Regalli
Agreed. And even in the relationship we saw fall apart, none of that was what caused Dorothy to break up unless you consider his slipping grades with her slipping grades a combined issue.
I have hope for Walky. He’s been getting enough character development that I think he will eventually figure out when he’s pushing others too far and that he needs some strategies for neurodiverse brains.
zee
He’s cute and laid back with natural abs, silly which can be endearing, easy to talk to. Wouldn’t be hard for him to get a girlfriend irl
baroncognito
I still think that Mike is in Witness protection and that Billie is dating the guy to get more information on the corrupt cops.
Kyrik Michalowski
That would be a great opportunity to jump a shark I guess.
Prince Mech
And costumed superheroics weren’t? This comic has never been that down to earth.
drs
Some of us think the shark was already jumped.
Rognik
Nah. Mike is just in a secret organization that fights Martians.
KumquatSquash
And honey buns, can’t forget the giant mutant frosted honey buns.
Deanatay
The giant mutant frosted honey buns are also Martian.
Jhon
Martians! Why does it have to be Martians? Why are they here? What do they want? Why can’t they just leave us alone?
Lux
I really hope that you’re right about the Witness protection
UnfrozenNeanderthal
I think the former half is possible
No comment on the latter half
MsM
Starfire poster!
Kyrik Michalowski
I just now noticed that, shame that it is the TTG version of starfire but I’ll take what I can get because Starfire is awesome.
Regalli
Timescale being what it is, Lucy would have been approximately four when the last episode of Teen Titans classic aired. She is, however, currently the exact right age for Go! when it started airing, provided she had a pretty high threshold for the absolutely chaotic sense of humor. (Pretty sure Go STARTS its Wackiness Levels around the alien fast food chain-cow abduction episode of the 2003 show.)
It’s too wacky for me these days, but I did love said fast food chain episode as a kid. And even Shortpacked Lucy had… self-awareness, at least, about Go as a series.
https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/moar-lik-teen-titans-noaslkjfjdlakdsjalsf
Do wish Cartoon Network were a bit more willing to do serial shows without pulling things like the Steven Bombs, though. *Sigh* But that’s as much my eternal bitterness for the DC Nation block as a whole. (I’m very happy for Young Justice fans but as a GLTAS person… *sobs*)
Sirksome
TT Go is such a weird show. It’s simultaneously too wacky and childish for most Teen Titans fans who grew up with the original, yet it has some of the most legitimately funny satire of superhero tropes you’ll find, while also referencing to shows outside it’s age demographic like Gilligan’s Island, and making adult jokes that so borderline innappropriate you question how it got past the censors. Like Beastboy flipping jizzing all over Wonder Woman! The show is insane. Also it’s popularity might have gotten us one more season of Teen Titans so I can’t hate it.
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Nono
I feel like if it wasn’t so attached to the original TT series it would be less polarizing. I can think of plenty of shows from back in the day that skirted closely to the line in terms of inappropriateness, but because they weren’t like, a franchise show people didn’t rage over it.