Of course, the irritating thing about Elly's love of a person who refuses to let April vent when she feels as if she's been screwed over is that Eva impresses me as being yet another of the cast-offs and losers that her family expect April to venerate in order to protect Elly from the realization that she is a rather poor judge of character. While ( Read more... )

It stands to reason that the worst-case scenario for Elly when it comes to dealing with the threat That Girl represents is it becoming impossible for her to deny that she has misjudged Martha. It's akin to how April freaked out at Jim because she mistakenly believed that he wanted her to admit that she was this bad person who could only feel ( Read more... )

The irritating thing about Lynn's failed career as a children's book author is that she's still probably very disappointed that she never managed to get anyone to sign off on an illustrated look at her childhood called "When I Was Lindy." There's a fairly good reason for this: the sample images she lovingly shared with the world depict a horrible ( Read more... )

As I type this, I do so in the knowledge that it has been pretty much four years since Anne spent entirely too long seeing herself as this horrible monster who was being punished by God for her sins by the means of blighting an innocent with the curse of having extra fingers. The general consensus is that panic overrode the poor woman's common ( Read more... )

To continue on from where I left, it's sadly typical that we have to wait six years to see what the real problem Liz has with eyeglasses is when Elly is forced to have to start to wear reading glasses. By then, it's established that Elly's default belief that her life was all used up and gone forever and ever had gotten worse than it is now because ( Read more... )

The interesting thing about Gordon's half of the Valentine's Dance arc is that he's not really doing right by the person he's trying to help because he's living out a stupid rescue fantasy that gets in the way of thinking clearly or acting properly. He doesn't ever learn to see the girl he's trying to impress as a person because that would tend to ( Read more... )

As you all know, there is something April does that makes me want to check her God-damned expiry date: creeping all over her friend Becky because she's a jealous little heifer who doesn't want to admit that the prettier girl makes her feel all kinds of insecure. Time and again, she's rediscovering the fact that the other person isn't trying to ( Read more... )

As you know, Lynn believes a whole bunch of things about her past that aren't the case. She isn't lying on purpose when she says that she deliberately kept the kids three years younger than her kids because she lost track of the truth and remembers the past wrong. The same thing is about to happen in the next few weeks and take about three years to ( Read more... )

The reason that I mentioned the rather confusing new-run is that I personally think that it's in the wrong place entirely. This is because Lynn's need to make sure that Christmas strips fall on Christmas Day could have been achieved in a means that didn't drop a spoiler about Elly's laryngitis into our laps. What I personally believe that we should ( Read more... )

I think that it's safe to say that it's sort of too bad that Elly never really learned much about how the legal system worked from her one experience in Komedy Kourt that wasn't "judges are dimwitted know-it-alls" or "the legal system is rigged because I can't steamroll over everyone who gets in my way" because it would have helped the adult child ( Read more... )