More flashbacks. I guess they are “ok”, but in some ways this feels like a nudge to get folks to read “Luann Again” which I suspect many of us already do.
While this “works” as a way for Luann to explain her past to Fay, I am not really finding the information Luann is providing to be particularly helpful FOR Fay to hear. Luann’s “Aaron crush” was not a particularly successful time in Luann’s dating history. So, unless this information is designed to encourage Fay what to NOT do, it could end up being exactly some of the nonsense Mrs. Garcia did not want to become part of Fay’s impressions of how the dating scene is supposed to work. From what Luann has thus far described to Fay, if I were Mrs. Garcia, and I knew of this…. I would again be fairly disgruntled.
So, the questions I have are about where this is going? Here are some hypotheses:
1) This is being used as easy “filler” by Greg to give him a small break/vacation…. sort of like the flashback episodes on television (especially from the 50s, 60s, & 70s).
2) This could portend the return of Aaron (IMO this would be horrible if Luann becomes all “swoony” again about him, but could be ironically interesting if there is some sort of weird twist (like he is related to the Garcia family).
3) This is leading to a bigger blowup relative to Mrs. Garcia’s explicit instructions to not have Luann “mentor” Fay about dating (I still think that Luann and Fay needed to clear this matter up with Mrs. Garcia before proceeding like Luann has.)
4) This is leading to having Fay adopt some of the same “patterns” of behavior Luann had in the past…. this would disappoint me for I would like Fay to NOT become this sort of “swoony” character as her primary personality trait in the comic.
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The way this is currently proceeding, I am fearful we will have this focus continue into next week and perhaps beyond.
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More flashbacks. I guess they are “ok”, but in some ways this feels like a nudge to get folks to read “Luann Again” which I suspect many of us already do.
While this “works” as a way for Luann to explain her past to Fay, I am not really finding the information Luann is providing to be particularly helpful FOR Fay to hear. Luann’s “Aaron crush” was not a particularly successful time in Luann’s dating history. So, unless this information is designed to encourage Fay what to NOT do, it could end up being exactly some of the nonsense Mrs. Garcia did not want to become part of Fay’s impressions of how the dating scene is supposed to work. From what Luann has thus far described to Fay, if I were Mrs. Garcia, and I knew of this…. I would again be fairly disgruntled.
So, the questions I have are about where this is going? Here are some hypotheses:
1) This is being used as easy “filler” by Greg to give him a small break/vacation…. sort of like the flashback episodes on television (especially from the 50s, 60s, & 70s).
2) This could portend the return of Aaron (IMO this would be horrible if Luann becomes all “swoony” again about him, but could be ironically interesting if there is some sort of weird twist (like he is related to the Garcia family).
3) This is leading to a bigger blowup relative to Mrs. Garcia’s explicit instructions to not have Luann “mentor” Fay about dating (I still think that Luann and Fay needed to clear this matter up with Mrs. Garcia before proceeding like Luann has.)
4) This is leading to having Fay adopt some of the same “patterns” of behavior Luann had in the past…. this would disappoint me for I would like Fay to NOT become this sort of “swoony” character as her primary personality trait in the comic.
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The way this is currently proceeding, I am fearful we will have this focus continue into next week and perhaps beyond.