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WCDT Strips 3636 to 3640 (18th to 22nd December 2017)
Tova:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 20 Dec 2017, 11:29 ---Maybe this heinous incident will be adapted into an intensely overacted Australian TV drama: "The Shove".
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I was going to react to the previous posts but then I read this. :-D
Well played.
(This is what this post is referring to, for the benefit of non-Australians)
Follow up post, edited in to avoid double posting.
I'm surprised at the number of people who think that there will or should be serious consequences to the shove.
What are you imagining exactly? Beatrice thinks: My daughter just cut off ties! What should I do? I know! I'll press charges against my own daughter! For a shove! That will repair our relationship.
Seriously?
Anyway, it's still possible that Beatrice will say something before Hanners can get out the door.
I'm going to head to Patreon right now and find out.
TheEvilDog:
To the people who believe that Hanners is in the wrong about pushing her mother, consider this.
Hanners can barely hug her own father, to the point where her gift for his birthday was one. Where he teared up at so simple a gesture.
Because Hanners really can't handle touching people, yeah, she's gotten better about it over the years, but her neuroses are such a defining and central part of her character that any act of contact with another person is a huge deal.
Hanners pushed her mother. That's how angry she's gotten thanks to her mother's schemes. Because this isn't just bringing in Tilly under false pretences. This is the culmination of everything that Beatrice has done throughout Hanners' life. Beatrice has never seen her daughter's illnesses as such, just responding to them as "grow up" and making choices for Hanners' without any consideration for her own daughter. Imagine living your entire life under that abuse. Imagine spending your entire life not being seen as a child of someone, but as a commodity or resource to be used when the time is right. The only time we've ever seen Beatrice say she loved her daughter was when she was drunk and the only time she said she was proud of Hanners was when Hanners was passed out drunk. No matter how you slice it, that is not a healthy relationship.
Why did Hanners essentially snap? It wasn't because of everything Beatrice has done to her her entire life, it was that she dragged in an innocent person into the mess. We can say whatever about our parents when they act in an abusive manner to us, but the instant that behaviour is seen done to another person, well, Beatrice is probably lucky that Hanners only pushed her.
I'm not condoning what Hanners did but you can see from her point of view - that was the final straw and the end of her relationship with Beatrice.
Scarlet Manuka:
Does it bother anyone else that Hannelore has been all "I'm not your boss, I don't need a PA" since Tilly arrived, but AFTER the two days has ended and she's shown her the door, she has no problem with "oh hey PA, book us some plane tickets"?
Tova:
It's a recognition of Hanners' realisation that Tilly is not her persecutor. Rather, they are a fellow victim.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Scarlet Manuka on 20 Dec 2017, 15:02 ---Does it bother anyone else that Hannelore has been all "I'm not your boss, I don't need a PA" since Tilly arrived, but AFTER the two days has ended and she's shown her the door, she has no problem with "oh hey PA, book us some plane tickets"?
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Not at all. This arc is about Hanners transforming, in many ways into her mother, something she does not want to do. And Tova is very correct, Hannelore is seeing Tilly as a weaker victim of the same tormentor.
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