Saturday, June 09, 2007

Shawna-Marie, Cracking up and Loving it.

Let me think back on all the wedding rehearsals in which I have participated and how many of them had a screaming match between the mother of the bride and the bride. Well, that’s zero.

Now, let me think back on all the weddings in which I have participated where the best man escorted a woman who was not the maid or matron of honour. Well, that’s zero.

Of course I also don’t ever remember going to an outdoor wedding under a circus tent or remember going to a rehearsal dinner where the food was done as a sandwich buffet.

I wonder why Lynn Johnston is going to the trouble of making Shawna-Marie and her wedding seem so classless and tasteless. It’s almost as if we are watching the wedding of Becky McGuire, a certified villain. Only Mason shows up and Liz declares her lust for him.

When I saw the strip, I was suddenly struck with the idea that the whole sequence of asking Anthony out only to find he was with someone else was intended to allow Liz to break with Anthony, just as she had also broken with Warren Blackwood a few strips earilier. Anthony is happy with accountant girl, and that’s that. Liz will come to September with a boyfriend, and express delight at being single.

Of course, then remembered the reason I never thought Paul Wright had a change, and that was Lynn Johnston had spent too much time developing the character of Anthony Caine to drop him.

2 Comments:

Blogger April Patterson said...

Yes, I'm still hearing the grinding gears of inevitability. It's just a question of how Lynn will maneuver to get these crazy kids together. Probably some drama at the wedding to establish that Mason and AccountantGirl are both unsuitable. Maybe they'll be caught having sex with each other in a broom closet. Then Liz and Anthony can fall into one another's arms while realizing they are the only ones who will not betray the other. ::puke::

4:38 AM  
Blogger howard said...

Since Anthony Caine has shown himself to go completely passive whenever he thinks Liz is with another guy and since the most aggressive Liz has ever been with Anthony was to ask him to go to the wedding (and nothing else), it is clear someone else will have to bring them together.

Gordon, Michael, Deanna, Elly and others have tried quite aggressively to do it in the past and met with completely failure. My guess is that, no matter what happens with AccountantGirl or Mason, it will fall to Dawn Enjo or Candace Halloran to give Anthony and Liz a swift kick in the butt to go the right direction. My money is on Candace, since there is no reason for her character to have been reintroduced, except to fulfill this role.

8:43 AM  

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