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« on: March 31, 2010, 03:41:15 AM »
So the little shaver is going home.

For good, or just for the duration of the storyline?
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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2010, 04:20:55 AM »
My socks never fly into the suitcase like that.
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« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2010, 04:47:44 AM »
"crabby old men and bedsit guitarists"

I mean, while some of us here are not guitarists and some of us are ladies...

I think he's got us down.

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« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2010, 12:52:53 PM »
It is understood that Ray is allowed to not have used his vast fortune to send Philippe home years ago without a lot of authorial explanation.

I'm also stealing the phrase "devil of a [time frame]"
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« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2010, 01:14:29 PM »
Quote from: CortJstr on March 31, 2010, 12:52:53 PM
It is understood that Ray is allowed to not have used his vast fortune to send Philippe home years ago without a lot of authorial explanation.

This; thanks.
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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2010, 01:29:46 PM »
Quote from: CortJstr on March 31, 2010, 12:52:53 PM
It is understood that Ray is allowed to not have used his vast fortune to send Philippe home years ago without a lot of authorial explanation.

No,  you're not allowed to think about this at all.  Why do they need vast wealth to send the boy home at all?  Just put him on a plane.  A ticket cost a few hundred dollars.  Why are they raising him in the first place?  If those circumstances still prevail no amount of money will make a difference.  In fact, they could only prove to complicate the matter.
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« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2010, 01:42:29 PM »
Quote from: pmcd9 on March 31, 2010, 01:29:46 PM
No,  you're not allowed to think about this at all.  Why do they need vast wealth to send the boy home at all?  Just put him on a plane.  A ticket cost a few hundred dollars.  Why are they raising him in the first place?  If those circumstances still prevail no amount of money will make a difference.  In fact, they could only prove to complicate the matter.

I actually meant that seriously. It's like the MST3K theme song, just sit back and enjoy the storyline.
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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2010, 01:51:31 PM »
Phillipe wouldn't take Ray's charity. He wanted to go back to his mom on his own dime, to prove that he'd really made it in the world.

Also, I suspect Ray's wealth is mostly on paper, and what he does have he constantly has to spend on $600 apologies.
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2010, 01:55:22 PM »
Quote from: CortJstr on March 31, 2010, 01:42:29 PM
I actually meant that seriously. It's like the MST3K theme song, just sit back and enjoy the storyline.

I am enjoying the quips and the wordplay.  The storyline makes no sense.
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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2010, 01:58:25 PM »
UNLESS ...

Phillipe's mother belongs to a religious cult and he's gotta pay a million dollars to join.  That's the only way he's allowed to see his mother.
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2010, 02:03:58 PM »
Quote from: CortJstr on March 31, 2010, 12:52:53 PM
It is understood that Ray is allowed to not have used his vast fortune to send Philippe home years ago without a lot of authorial explanation.


Yes. Now all of you, shush.
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2010, 02:19:55 PM »
Wow.  As both a crabby old man and a bedsit guitarist I'm now worried about my children.
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2010, 02:21:09 PM »
Also, does anybody have the slightest doubt that P. will be back at the house within a few weeks?  After some quirky adventures, of course...
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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2010, 02:26:15 PM »
I can ignore little not-stupid things.

Ignoring big and stupid things just to move a story is more effort. I should not be having to do Nadia Comanechi level mental-gymnastics to make the basic core of the character motivations not-stupid.

And before you say "stop taking your fake cats so seriously" consider: the tight interplay of the characters off of each other and their situations is the motive force for Achewood not the funny pictures or the (not)outlandish placement. Doing shit that requires one of those "no Authorial explanation necessary" covers both highlights the poorly riveted seams of the good vessel Achewood but it's also fuck*ng lazy.

I mean, "Here's your free shit, I turned the stuff that sucks about it into a joke you can feel all special-secret-squirrel about when you have a snigger with it."

Lazy, poor effort, glad I didn't pay for it.
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« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2010, 03:44:50 PM »
Quote from: AugustWest on March 31, 2010, 02:21:09 PM
Also, does anybody have the slightest doubt that P. will be back at the house within a few weeks?  After some quirky adventures, of course...

Just like Little Nephew
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