Not Chasing, Running in His Direction
With today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse, we see Connie making plans to go to Montreal. Lynn Johnston has eliminated the “visit the cousin” reason, and the strips where Connie skulked about trying to get Phil’s address and the name of his band as she did the first time around in 1981 when she only had one date with Phil before he went back home. Connie has been corresponding with Phil for over a year, so she knows all that information.
Here Connie just announces to Elly that she has decided to take a break and go to Montreal, and notice, not once does she mention Lawrence in all of this. Unless Lynn does a huge rewrite, we are going to have Elly be the one taking care of Lawrence and you would think Connie would bring this up at this point as “I would like to take a trip to Montreal; but it depends on whether you would be willing to handle Lawrence while I am gone.” Maybe tomorrow Connie will ask the question, but I doubt it. She didn’t ask it the first time around in 1981.
In fact, considering Elly’s disapproving look and the number of new-run strips Lynn has devoted to Elly’s opposition to the relationship between Connie and Phil, it becomes even more amazing that Elly will enable to Connie to take this trip. It is not an insubstantial task for Elly and when you add Lawrence’s injury to the mix, Connie is really taking advantage of Elly. More importantly, all of Elly’s disapproval loses its punch, because she agrees to go along with this. All she has to do is say, “No” and no more Connie and Phil.
The other aspect which will have difficulty coming across is that when Connie does finally get to Montreal, Phil blows her off. Lynn Johnston has written several strips where it is apparent that Phil and Connie have been intimate. She buys him intimate gifts, she sends Lawrence out when Phil comes over to her house, and she made it a point of saying she was spending the night in Toronto with Phil over New Years’ Eve. If she is going to take the time to visit Phil in Montreal, and they have this relationship, and Phil is a single man, then why would he turn her down, when he didn’t before? Lynn Johnston said she would explain who opens Phil’s apartment door, and perhaps this will be the reason. Perhaps it could be the “first” appearance of Georgia.
Here Connie just announces to Elly that she has decided to take a break and go to Montreal, and notice, not once does she mention Lawrence in all of this. Unless Lynn does a huge rewrite, we are going to have Elly be the one taking care of Lawrence and you would think Connie would bring this up at this point as “I would like to take a trip to Montreal; but it depends on whether you would be willing to handle Lawrence while I am gone.” Maybe tomorrow Connie will ask the question, but I doubt it. She didn’t ask it the first time around in 1981.
In fact, considering Elly’s disapproving look and the number of new-run strips Lynn has devoted to Elly’s opposition to the relationship between Connie and Phil, it becomes even more amazing that Elly will enable to Connie to take this trip. It is not an insubstantial task for Elly and when you add Lawrence’s injury to the mix, Connie is really taking advantage of Elly. More importantly, all of Elly’s disapproval loses its punch, because she agrees to go along with this. All she has to do is say, “No” and no more Connie and Phil.
The other aspect which will have difficulty coming across is that when Connie does finally get to Montreal, Phil blows her off. Lynn Johnston has written several strips where it is apparent that Phil and Connie have been intimate. She buys him intimate gifts, she sends Lawrence out when Phil comes over to her house, and she made it a point of saying she was spending the night in Toronto with Phil over New Years’ Eve. If she is going to take the time to visit Phil in Montreal, and they have this relationship, and Phil is a single man, then why would he turn her down, when he didn’t before? Lynn Johnston said she would explain who opens Phil’s apartment door, and perhaps this will be the reason. Perhaps it could be the “first” appearance of Georgia.
posted by howard at 10:03 PM
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It is not an insubstantial task for Elly and when you add Lawrence’s injury to the mix, Connie is really taking advantage of Elly. More importantly, all of Elly’s disapproval loses its punch, because she agrees to go along with this. All she has to do is say, “No” and no more Connie and Phil.
I can practically see the Meet The Yammersons that would be derived from her wussing out; we all know how Emmy would HATE!!! being told that all she had to do was to say 'No' and the thing she hated would not happen.
Lynn Johnston said she would explain who opens Phil’s apartment door, and perhaps this will be the reason. Perhaps it could be the “first” appearance of Georgia.
I suspected that too; I hope I'm wrong, though. I'd hate to see one of the few relationships that was remotely adult get spoiled so Lynn can tell us that Phil is a cheating cheater who cheats.
...we all know how Emmy would HATE!!! being told that all she had to do was to say 'No' and the thing she hated would not happen.
Well there is something that Elly likes to do even more than being right, and that's to tell people she was right. By enabling the trip, she gets that opportunity.
I'd hate to see one of the few relationships that was remotely adult get spoiled so Lynn can tell us that Phil is a cheating cheater who cheats.
When Georgia shows up for the first time in November, 1982, Phil says he has only known her for 147 hours, 11 minutes and 35 seconds. Unless Lynn is chopping a lot out of her 1981 reprints, that strip won't work if the person at the apartment is Georgia. Of this is Lynn Johnston writing this, so what does continuity matter?
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