Friday, 20 December 2024
The one where bad advice feeds into lessons not learned.
Synopsis: The irresistible force of Elly's hypocrisy meets the immovable object of Mike's victim complex.
Summary: This is why he doesn't learn not to ignore people: he doesn't see that it's his hand on the detonator because Mommy lets him off the hook when he screws up.
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The problem is that he's just outed himself as a snowflake. What's he gonna do if something actually catastrophic happens? Stand around like a shivering pillar of shit as his mind goes into vapor lock? Crawl home to Mommy so she can kiss it and ma.....
Oh.
Yeah.
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Elly and Michael are so privileged, for them to talk about their world collapsing would require a snowflake definition or "first world problems".
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And he doesn't even date them because he has no initiative. That's another thing he has in common with Elly: not even seeing when he's got an advantage.
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We've been here before:
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Lynn's attempts to be deep are always so unintentionally hilarious. And "I feel nothing" is another contender for Patterson Family Motto. Michael also articulates another possibility- "I Do Nothing." Pattersons are so regularly paralyzed by everyday life, it's no surprise that they ended up back at Mommy and Daddy's house as adults.
And maybe it just doesn't match my personal experience, but....several times in this strip, we see Liz and Michael pouring their hearts out to each other, or to their Mom. I can't imagine doing either of these things, and I had two brothers and two sisters. It's like Lynn appreciates that young people can have friends to blather nonsense around, but when it comes to serious issues, you must rely on siblings or Mommy for comfort. I don't get it.
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Lynn has always impressed me as being an antisocial dimwit who doesn't have friends and doesn't understand why. The only people she could confide in are those who have no choice but to listen to her bullshit.
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These people do constantly gravitate to anyone who will reassure them that everything is going to be ok, nothing that happened is their fault, no mistakes have been made by them, there is nothing that they need to do, and life is a mystery that will unfold as fate intends; there is no point in doing anything because nobody really has any agency.
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