I Knew It!!!
I just knew that Liz wasn’t going to dump Paul and he was going to try to follow her to Toronto.
1. The plot was moving way too fast for a For Better or For Worse plot. After all, it took Warren a good 1 ½ years before he finally was released from his good guy prison to become a bad guy.
2. If Liz dumped Paul because she is springing all this stuff on him, it would make her look really bad, and this strip is not about making Pattersons look bad. Well, not intentionally anyway.
3. The June 2, 2003 strip where this whole plotline of Liz in Mtigwaki was foreshadowed, and pointed out to me by qnjones. It says Liz is going to fall for the wrong guy. Get it? His name is Wright and he’s the wrong guy. You see the jokes are now predicted years in advance. Paul Wright has yet to be turned into a heel. He has not been Warrenized or Ericized yet. Only then, can Liz be released from his clutches into the arms of the waiting Anthony.
The best part is that all the snark I did today about how Liz was preparing to move back to Milborough and asking her friends to move back, still works, even if Paul and Liz do not break up. The simple fact of the matter is that homesick does not work and having a summer job in Mississauga does not work as reasonable explanations for her sudden departure. We have not seen homesick since Shiimsa showed up in the strip, and even in the monthly letters it has not been mentioned since last year. In fact, the Mtigwaki strips this year have been the opposite. Elly visited the pow-wow and came to the conclusion that Mtigwaki was home. Liz got stinking drunk over New Years’ Eve and came to the conclusion that Milborough was not her home. When Paul Wright announced his transfer to Liz, she was jumping up and down with joy and saying “Amazing.” There was nothing to say that this was coming. So, you have to presume the whole thing is predicated off of April’s e-mail and the only thing she mentioned that is reasonable is Anthony Caine’s divorce. If this strip is being written well, then the divorce is the reason, but maybe Liz has not admitted that to herself yet.
I snarked all of the homesick items in the posts today, and I suppose tomorrow I will work in Mississauga somewhere now that this is official. My favourite post of the day was when aprilp_katje as April fed Shannon Lake a line about special needs boys giving her the eye. It was so irresistible to put in a glass eye joke. That’s a cheap laugh, but I enjoyed writing it. 2nd place for me would probably be my snark from the hand of Candace who accused Liz of wanting to come home to dry out from being a drunk. I didn’t see that perspective on any other FBoFW commentary, so I had a little pride thing going.
Tomorrow’s strip: Paul still lives! That’s good. I was afraid he was going to have to be dropped as a regularly posting character after this week.
1. The plot was moving way too fast for a For Better or For Worse plot. After all, it took Warren a good 1 ½ years before he finally was released from his good guy prison to become a bad guy.
2. If Liz dumped Paul because she is springing all this stuff on him, it would make her look really bad, and this strip is not about making Pattersons look bad. Well, not intentionally anyway.
3. The June 2, 2003 strip where this whole plotline of Liz in Mtigwaki was foreshadowed, and pointed out to me by qnjones. It says Liz is going to fall for the wrong guy. Get it? His name is Wright and he’s the wrong guy. You see the jokes are now predicted years in advance. Paul Wright has yet to be turned into a heel. He has not been Warrenized or Ericized yet. Only then, can Liz be released from his clutches into the arms of the waiting Anthony.
The best part is that all the snark I did today about how Liz was preparing to move back to Milborough and asking her friends to move back, still works, even if Paul and Liz do not break up. The simple fact of the matter is that homesick does not work and having a summer job in Mississauga does not work as reasonable explanations for her sudden departure. We have not seen homesick since Shiimsa showed up in the strip, and even in the monthly letters it has not been mentioned since last year. In fact, the Mtigwaki strips this year have been the opposite. Elly visited the pow-wow and came to the conclusion that Mtigwaki was home. Liz got stinking drunk over New Years’ Eve and came to the conclusion that Milborough was not her home. When Paul Wright announced his transfer to Liz, she was jumping up and down with joy and saying “Amazing.” There was nothing to say that this was coming. So, you have to presume the whole thing is predicated off of April’s e-mail and the only thing she mentioned that is reasonable is Anthony Caine’s divorce. If this strip is being written well, then the divorce is the reason, but maybe Liz has not admitted that to herself yet.
I snarked all of the homesick items in the posts today, and I suppose tomorrow I will work in Mississauga somewhere now that this is official. My favourite post of the day was when aprilp_katje as April fed Shannon Lake a line about special needs boys giving her the eye. It was so irresistible to put in a glass eye joke. That’s a cheap laugh, but I enjoyed writing it. 2nd place for me would probably be my snark from the hand of Candace who accused Liz of wanting to come home to dry out from being a drunk. I didn’t see that perspective on any other FBoFW commentary, so I had a little pride thing going.
Tomorrow’s strip: Paul still lives! That’s good. I was afraid he was going to have to be dropped as a regularly posting character after this week.
posted by howard at 11:06 PM
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Liz is reminding me of a high-school friend who transferred from her east-coast college to a Los Angeles college after freshman year. She kept giving all sorts of reasons based on the academic programs that the L.A. college had, but the truth was she wanted to be in sunny L.A.
Liz reminds me of a girl I knew in high school whose older graduation boyfriend was offerred a very nice scholarship to a university far away from our hometown, and she cried and caterwauled she couldn't stand to be without him, that he actually gave up the scholarship to go to a local college near her. She broke up with him a year later. He was an idiot to do that.
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