The interesting thing about Elly's time in Inverted Reality Court is that it's the same sort of one-off deal that her time as a protester was. As you will recall, what happened back then was that Elly never bothered trying to organize anything because she'd been made a fool of by someone who came along and stole her idea and her fight. What she ( Read more... )

To really understand why it is that Elly did all of the stupid things she did, I think that this failure of Elly to anticipate that Pervrett had had it explained to him that if he wanted to be taken seriously, he had to look presentable is rather indicative of the sort of mindset she had going in. She really didn't understand the process, she didn' ( Read more... )

To continue on from my previous post, I think that there's a fact that escapes us because we're busy focusing on how many factual errors Lynn may have made or whether they were intentional. What we don't notice at first is that Elly's ignorance of how the court system works is so profound, it comes as a shock to her that a courtroom is a public ( Read more... )

Now that we're about to watch Elly fight off that parking ticket, I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you my opinion of said arc. What I see when I look at this is a woman who has no real idea of what's actually happening to her. Elly thinks that Pervrett is trying to get what she calls the district attorney (because she's ignorant of ( Read more... )

As we all know, we're about a few years away from Mike acting hurt and betrayed because Gordon kept his pain at being smacked around by his folks to himself instead of blubbering like a nitwit on a damned sitcom. Brian tried reminding him that, hey, they live in the real world so no, he ain't gonna do that but Mikey, he would not be moved. He ( Read more... )

As you know, one of the things that I found not the best about FBorFW was Lynn's trying to have it both ways. She wanted them to be real or to be cartoons depending on her mood and you just can't do that. If there are real consequences to violence in one strip, you simply can't have a Big Ball Of Harmless Violence just to make things funny and she ( Read more... )

Now, as you will recall, the oldest strips had Elly and Anne as jogging partners while from now on, Elly jogs exclusively with Connie as part of the process of culling the cast herd. For good or ill, Lynn appears to believe that no matter how many characters she might have at any given point, she has too many of them so it makes sense to her to ( Read more... )

The very interesting thing about watching Elizabeth react to having done something wrong is having to watch Elly's being completely baffled by the fact that for some reason that eludes her, the reason Liz quotes for not fessing up as quickly as possible is her fear of being spanked. We know that neither she nor John would lay a hand on her because ( Read more... )

As we know, the last arc of the pre-pregnancy era was Mike's own personal doomed boating misadventure with Martha's family. The MacRae family were depicted as a band of common bridge trolls whose presence Mike had to endure (which foreshadowed his pointless and self-destructive battle for supremacy with Mira and angered confusion when asked to ( Read more... )

If you've been paying attention to the Super Teddy arc, it should be rather obvious that Elizabeth hasn't the blindest idea of what it is she's apologizing for and wouldn't have been especially sorry if she did know. Dawn made a really crappy and self-serving attempt to explain to her that what she did was bad and she should feel bad but that was ( Read more... )