Dainty Little Trotters

[brigid]

2-6-2023

A hoof.

She has a hoof.

Anyway...

I cannot restate this enough times: Amos had an engagement ring in his pocket (for Edda) when he met with Mary to proclaim his love for her. He then vomited, which proved he loved Edda.

You know, normal relationship stuff.

But he was hung up on her into adulthood. She was the what-if for him and he’s the what-if for her apparently.

People growing & changing is GREAT and it’s an interesting story.

That’s not what we got, though. We got Mary being humiliated so Amos can declare his love for Edda.

Edda wasn’t “his universe” in school. They both had crushes on other people, she actively dated a lot of guys. That’s normal. And it’s ignored. And that's a shame, because "friends realizing over time that they love each other and also are IN LOVE with each other" is really interesting. "Two people always destined to be together drift into a marriage and kids and perfect career together" isn't that much fun. I mean, it CAN be if they have to overcome obstacles but they didn't have any obstacles but themselves.

And the ultimate “punchline”, apparently, occurs the Monday after that story line is seemingly resolved because this man SUCKS at pacing.

Or we’ll have another week of them declaring undying love with legs splayed all over the place. I really am not in the mood for a week of Amos describing how much he loves Edda using the most florid, purple prose he can possibly dredge up. Somewhere their battered thesaurus is weeping over its broken spine and dog eared pages.

Meanwhile, here Edda is looking like a Barbie doll that's fallen out of a toybox, hips moving in ways human hips can't move. It's so important that her entire leg be visible that McEldowney mangles her foot (hoof) and has a speech bubble coming out of her cootch/Amos' lower back so it's not obscuring anything.

Which brings us to, you know...