Where’s Lawrence?
One of the things I seem to remember about Connie Poirier and Phil Richard's relationship was that Lawrence Poirier seemed to have very little involvement in it. In today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse, we have little Michael show up with Farley and not with Lawrence. Where is Lawrence? Even expanding the storylines with new-runs, he is forgotten.
Meanwhile Elly continues to give Connie information about her brother in anticipation of his arrival. For whatever reason, when Lynn Johnston set up this story, she seemed to forget 2 basic things (1) Lawrence should be interested in anything his mom was doing to find a new dad for him and (2) Phil may actually want to spend his time with his family and not spend all his time off over at the neighbour’s house knocking boots with the single neighbour.
Meanwhile Elly continues to give Connie information about her brother in anticipation of his arrival. For whatever reason, when Lynn Johnston set up this story, she seemed to forget 2 basic things (1) Lawrence should be interested in anything his mom was doing to find a new dad for him and (2) Phil may actually want to spend his time with his family and not spend all his time off over at the neighbour’s house knocking boots with the single neighbour.
posted by howard at 10:23 PM
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howard,
In today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse, we have little Michael show up with Farley and not with Lawrence. Where is Lawrence? Even expanding the storylines with new-runs, he is forgotten.
He's suffering from the bizarre phenomenon that's affected most of the rest of the cast. Just as his mother acts like Elly's life partner here just like she did in the last of the Declining Years, he's the no-show that he was then.
For whatever reason, when Lynn Johnston set up this story, she seemed to forget 2 basic things (1) Lawrence should be interested in anything his mom was doing to find a new dad for him and (2) Phil may actually want to spend his time with his family and not spend all his time off over at the neighbour’s house knocking boots with the single neighbour.
Ah, yes. She can show Phil and Connie talking, she can show Connie and Lawrence talking and she can even show Phil and Lawrence talking but she can't show more than two people talking at once.
DreadedCandiru2,
He's suffering from the bizarre phenomenon that's affected most of the rest of the cast. Just as his mother acts like Elly's life partner here just like she did in the last of the Declining Years, he's the no-show that he was then.
An interesting theory. I am going to have to watch now to see how many times Lawrence shows up in new-runs, as opposed to reprints.
For being a single parent before her second marriage herself, Lynn sure doesn't know how it works.
Lawrence and (later) Francoise just seem to be there for a "joke" or to ram a point home (Liz is not her but here!) The true "part of my life" aspect just doesn't work. Just like Lawrence dropped out of sight during the courtship, Francoise was expendable whenever Granthony had to go in hot pursuit of Liz (or "be there when she needed him").
debjyn,
For being a single parent before her second marriage herself, Lynn sure doesn't know how it works.
I think she never knew how it worked. By her own description in interviews, her son did not like Rod Johnston. Rod, when agreeing to marry her, said he would put up with Aaron, if Lynn would put up with living in Lynn Lake. In my mind, if your husband-to-be doesn’t get along with your kid and wants to live some place you can’t stand, then maybe you should rethink getting married. Lynn, like Connie, seems to be so desperate for a man, that the only qualification is that that guy is actually single.
Lawrence and (later) Francoise just seem to be there for a "joke" or to ram a point home (Liz is not her but here!)
Eventually Lynn got the complaints about no Liz and Francoise which appeared constantly on the old Coffee Talk and she showed them playing together with her dolls once and Liz making a mess with her food to amuse Francoise once. This all went away when Francoise was placed in a subordinate position to her future cousins during her father’s wedding to Liz, and there were no mother-daughter moments between Liz and Francoise during the wedding preparation. Of course there were no mother-daughter moments between Liz and Elly either, so I don’t know what was going on through Lynn’s head when she left that out.
"...she can't show more than two people talking at once."
Interesting. Just like Wagner's Siegfried. Maybe FOOB would improve if it were set to music.
Nah, not even Wagner could save this.
Jana C.H.
Seattle
Saith Georges Bizet: As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
Jana C.H.,
Interesting. Just like Wagner's Siegfried. Maybe FOOB would improve if it were set to music.
One must remember that with Wagner operas, the orchestra music itself was oftentimes a character. Nevertheless, I must disagree with you. Wagner could save this. In fact, almost any half-decent writer / artist could. In fact, Lynn Johnston could save this, if she still cared about the material like she used to.
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