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Matt and I were chatting over Skype this morning. I generally get the feeling that especially you patrons here are way more likely to understand there is a difference between Cartoon Erika and Human Erika, so the following transcription probably isn't going to be groundbreaking for you. But, y'know, here's a conversation Matt and I had, if you're curious to see us talking about that kinda stuff /:)
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Matthew: It always surprises me that people see the comic and take that as 100% US. Like: they see the comic and they go that is the WHOLE of E and M. There can't be any more to them.
Erika: Ah, yeah
Matthew: It's like... well we are humans.... and we don't post EVERYTHING
Erika: It's like watching a TV show with characters. When we watch 30Rock, we don't ask ourselves "What's going on in Liz's life that we're not seeing on screen? This is just a fragment of who she is." We're not humans, we're characters.
Matthew: I suppose. Does that make me lazy?
Erika: Lazy?
Matthew: Yeah, for NOT thinking that when I see Liz lemon?
Erika: hahahahahah yes
Matthew: ok =)
Erika: No! Not at all! She's a character there to entertain us for half an hour. Just like our comic has our characters that are there just to entertain our readers for a minute or two. There IS value in that, we just have to remember that when people comment about "us" it's not us the humans, it's us the Liz Lemons.
Matthew: brb coffee poops kicking in.
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