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WCDT Strips 3636 to 3640 (18th to 22nd December 2017)
Tova:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 21 Dec 2017, 03:02 ---What did you expect Beatrice to say in this situation?
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Hm… depends…
She could have tried to justify her action ("If the deal with Taffys father vanishes, almost 5.000 people will lose their jobs!"), or have a sudden moment of realisation and regret ("OMG, Hannelore! I didn’t know! I’m so sorry!"). A worst case scenario would have also been possible ("How dare you threaten me?!? Security! Throw those two trespassers out! If they try to get back in *ever*, taser them!"), or even something completely crazy (*sigh* "Okay, this one was a failure. Tell the lab to thaw out the next one, and give her the new programming we talked about...")
From my point of view, any reaction from Beatrice would have been better that no reaction at all. But there's still one comic left for this week…
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Sorry I didn't respond to this immediately, but thanks for this response - I see what you were after now. I wouldn't have expected the last one personally, but the others would certainly be plausible.
I think what happened is actually more dramatic, but that's just me. 8-)
Cheers!
Technoir:
Ignoring the Tilly persistence in the strip and moving on to an observation/question...
Anybody else think Hanners looked a lot like Ellen DeGeneres in that outfit?
Prestwick:
--- Quote from: WoaLG on 21 Dec 2017, 01:52 ---I've been where Hanners is. (Though my parents aren't a space scientist and a corporate overlord. Just a teacher and a car parts salesman) It's incredibly painful to tell your family that you don't want them in your life
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I can echo this. I've been in the room or in on the conversation when this has happened. I've seen people literally reduced to tears and their knees because their family or parents are so impossible or infuriating that they have no choice but to cut ties.
Beatrice in this case is someone who in my view is insistent that mother knows best and so far mother believes that her daughter's interests are best served weaning her away from her current life and job and towards what Beatrice believes is her destiny of assuming the reigns of a highly successful business. Hanner's opinion - up until this point - frankly did not come into the equation hence why her increasingly angry and frantic protests had fallen on deaf ears or been batted away and rationalised as those of a spoilt brat or someone being overly dramatic.
Hence the breaking point and the raw anger and emotion from Hanners on Wednesday. I was one of the - admittedly few - people who believed that the argument was going to be left there primarily because Hanner's outburst was so out of character and so out of the ordinary for her that it would have shocked any of the characters in this story into silence.
What Beatrice most certainly isn't is a tyrant. Not towards her own flesh and blood anyway. Yes we have seen evidence of her cruelty and casual malice but what we haven't got is any evidence of abuse - physical, verbally vindictive or sadistic anyway - towards Hanners and the emotional abuse we've seen thus far appears to be on the "misguided parenting and child neglect" side of the scale. She doesn't appear to be the person to take deliberate vindictive action to actively hurt Hanners, Tilly or any of their friends in order to settle scores.
Therefore I really do not see any reaction from Beatrice apart from either trying to insist on business as usual - and being met by silence or a refusal to communicate from Hanners - or some kind of hamfisted and botched apology followed by another attempt to rationalise what was really some bloody awful parenting over the years.
OldGoat:
Is that a crying towel Tilly's carrying? Nevermind, it's just their* jacket.
Would Beatrice actually follow through with ruining a plebeian? All of Hannelore's Northampton friends are otherwise below her notice. She had to be damn near on-her-lips drunk with her mountain of inhibitions dissolved in ethanol to even joke about doing it. Beatrice is silent because she's having flashbacks to the emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of her own mother. Child abusers were almost always themselves abused and it takes confrontation and conscious effort to break the cycle. Perhaps this will segue to Bea's backstory.
*("It's just zir jacket"? I like that better - doesn't leave me thinking "Are Tilly and Hannelore both supposed to fit into that thing, or do they take turns wearing it?")
bhtooefr:
They've said that their preferred pronouns are the "they" family, not any of the neologisms for gender-neutral pronouns, so it is their jacket.
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