Thursday, January 04, 2007

Warren propositions Liz, April accepts

In today's For Better or For Worse, Warren offers to take Liz to Mtigwaki. For some reason, April seems to be in favor of this, which means she does not understand that to Warren, the helicopter ride is more than just a helicopter ride, or she simply prefers Warren. It also takes April off the pro-Anthony stance she had just before the trial started. If I am reading April correctly, her preferences for Liz are in this order: Warren, Anthony and finally Paul. John and Elly's order would be: Anthony, Warren and Paul (because Anthony got compliments, and Paul negative comments. They seemed to be ambivalent to Warren when they met him). I view Mike as following John and Elly's beliefs, but that opinion comes mainly from what Mike wrote in his monthly letters about Anthony, and not anything presented in the strip. From the strip, the only thing I get is that Mike expects Paul's "heart to wander."

The effect of the topic of discussion does remove my ability to post as Constable Paul Wright, since it is painfully obvious that Liz's early arrival in Mtigwaki is in order to surprise Paul. Therefore, Paul cannot know Liz is coming early and I cannot have him reading April's Real Blog where he would find that out.

Tomorrow's strip: We establish the new lecherous Warren, in an apparent imitation of Anthony Caine. It's too bad the writer couldn't take the time (as I have) to review the old Warren strips to keep him in character. But it is to be expected, since I am pretty sure when Constable Paul Wright shows up, he will also be out of character.

4 Comments:

Blogger April Patterson said...

True, I'm fairly certain that Lynn has thrown consistent characterization aside in service of whatever she wants to achieve with the plotlines. Let the snarkfest rage on, eh?

4:16 AM  
Blogger howard said...

But she did such a good job maintaining Mike and Dee's self-centred personalities during the fire. April is always obnoxious around Liz and her boyfriends. The characters never grew, but they were consistent.

Now, we have Warren, who apparently, in the last year, has turned into a lecherous Keanu Reaves.

5:43 AM  
Blogger April Patterson said...

He must have gone to the same Keanu training camp that Everett attended. ;)

3:18 PM  
Blogger howard said...

I agree with you 100%. Lynn Johnston's copy of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is probably well worn from getting youth dialogue

6:32 PM  

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