Tuesday, 3 September 2024
The one where wedding photographers are a plague on humanity.
Synopsis: We get the bog-standard joke about being told to act naturally when the wedding photographer makes things really awkward.
Summary: This is the only normal looking part of the sequence so I'm thinking that Lynn is still sore about her wedding photos never turning out in a way ( Read more... )
Lynn's Comments:
The lesser offence of being a hollow snob:
Gordon Mayes was the first of the “guys” to get married and I wanted it to be a small family gathering. Together, these two families could not afford a big wedding but it was a great day nonetheless. Gord and Tracey would be a solid couple with a very positive future.
hides the greater offense of confusing that size of the wedding with the success of the marriage.
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Tracey barely is permitted personhood in the strip. But sure, Lynn tell us what a "solid couple" she and Gordon turn out to be.
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Lynn's measures of a "solid couple" are based on an old standard. They have kids that turn out to be nice kids and not demon children. They stay married. They do whatever the Pattersons want them to do. However, in spite of Gordon's eventual great wealth, you never see him do the kind of charity or community work that Rod Johnston did in real life.
Where I live, the big car dealership guy is constantly donating money to some kind of local cause, because that is the expectation. We see none of that with Gordon. His quality of character is measured entirely from his business and his loyalty to his Patterson financial backers.
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Like a lot of thoughtless people, Lynn doesn't really get the purpose of charity. It looks futile to her and she blue-pencils Scripture in the same way a lot of right wing goofs do when they aren't supposed to.
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The closest we saw to charity from Gordon was providing limos for Liz and Anthony's wedding.
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Also, Rod had an interest in it. Which must be bad because it could take away from the time he devotes to Lynn.
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Even then, that is just being servile to the Pattersons, which is not really a charity.
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Good point.
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Together, these two families could not afford a big wedding but it was a great day nonetheless.
An odd thing for Lynn Johnston to say. Why does spending money on a wedding determine the quality of the day? Lynn had small weddings for both of hers. It is interesting that while we do not get to see Tracey's parents, Lynn has indicated that the size of this wedding is supposed to indicate their lack of money.
Lynn has previously compared the wedding to her own first wedding. Does she now have regrets about not having a big wedding?
I have heard of this before. I remember talking to a guy who was marrying a woman who had been married before and I commented that since it was a second wedding, she might want something smaller as second wedding women often do. He commented that she did not get a big wedding with her first wedding, so she still had to get that out of her system, and they had a big wedding.
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Lynn is a lot more like Mira than she likes to admit. Both women think that a great big circus wedding means a happy marriage.
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Certainly Lynn from these notes is like Mira. The previous Lynn is much more like Elly.
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