Comic for Monday, Oct 2, 2017
Commentary
Posted October 2, 2017 at 1:00 am
I'm sure they'll get beyond awkward dialogue. Eventually.
In regard to Susan's hair (which I forgot to talk about last time): I consider her tying it back like that to be Susan in a sort of formal, dressing up mode. To her, it's something akin to putting on a tie or jewelry. This is something that hasn't really come up much, but it's not entirely new, either. We got a glimpse of this in her date with Catalina fantasy way back in 2008.
Factual statements
“We were going to meet inside” is an example of a sort of thing I would say, and the sort of thing that could get me in trouble. All she’s doing is vocalizing a fact, and what her expectations were, but it’s very easily interpreted as accusatory. More like “we were SUPPOSED to meet inside and YOU RUINED IT” than “here is a literal statement of fact with no subtext that I felt compelled to vocalize for some reason.”
I, ah... I have a lot of experience with that sort of misunderstanding, though I’ve gotten better at avoiding it. Fortunately for Susan, Diane either didn’t misunderstand, or was feeling too sheepish to say anything about it.
