Saturday, October 08, 2005

Someone confiscate Lynn Johnston's sledgehammer!

Usually I enjoy For Better or For Worse, but today's plot device just made me gag.

We're supposed to believe that Elly managed to drive away without noticing that she didn't have her sunglasses? Prescription sunglasses are FOR driving! That's why she needs them! She would have noticed the instant she sat down in her car, if not within an hour or two of driving.

If Lynn Johnston seriously cannot come up with a better way to get Elizabeth to meet this police officer guy, she should have at least had Elly mention in passing that it was raining the entire way home or something, to justify her not having noticed the lack of sunglasses. This is like having the metaphorical gun tucked away in a drawer instead of sitting on the mantlepiece.

(Not to mention that they have either John's home email address or Elly's webmail address in their computer, and not to mention that there is only one school in Mtigwaki so they could have just called up the school to talk to Elizabeth. Gah!)

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