Yes! This post articulates most of my frustrations with FLYF.
I will admit to a gleeful smirk when Madeline railed against Nikita/Jones but that was mostly due to the fact that it was nice to see her do something. I have always thought that 'bimbo' was not a Madeline word; and in that situation, 'bimbo' doesn't even make contextual sense. 'Bimbo,' to me means, a synonym for tramp, ho, or any other term for promiscuity. I think that Madeline should have used a word to diminish Nikita's significance and reduced her to an idealistic child who has no comprehension of the world around her.
And I can understand why Nikita/Jones wanted TR out of power in FLYF and I understand that legitimate reasons have rarely mattered inside the power structure of Section (Hello, Sex Police Arc); but Jones/Nikita's reasoning was more than a little hollow. In Nikita's place, I would use examples from TR's less than stellar S4 record.
A little off topic, I think I read a parody of FLYF once, where after the line where Nikita complains that Paul was gone for 26 on Madeline's recommendation, Madeline snarks that it took longer than 26 minutes, and I nearly died from the laughter.
About Adrian's Garden, I have to defend Adrian's 'wordy version of slut.' Yes, it was catty and a cheap shot; but it was also very personal and one of the few times that Madeline was challenged by someone who was a superior. Yes, I know that technically Madeline was equal to Adrian at the time of 'Adrian's Garden;' but even if I get higher degree than one of my former teachers, I will still be deferential to them.
Back to Adrian's 'wordy version of slut,' Adrian clearly has power over Madeline, using Madeline's reluctance to deal with Adrian at the end of the episode as evidence, and their relationship is both mother/daughter and mother/daughter-in-law. So when she calls Madeline a 'wordy version of slut,' (by the way I adore this phrase for some strange reason) Adrian is attacking on multiple levels: You are my daughter and you have failed me; You will never be good enough for my Paul.
Hopefully I can articulate this, but in Psychic Pilgrim, had Madeline's mother made some gesture to acknowledge that Madeline had indeed created 'a hell of her own making' then it would have destroyed Madeline because essentially she could have had a different life. And with that in mind, if Madeline has transferred any of her mommy issues to Adrian, then Adrian had the power to shape and cut like no one else in Madeline's life except for Paul.
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I will admit to a gleeful smirk when Madeline railed against Nikita/Jones but that was mostly due to the fact that it was nice to see her do something. I have always thought that 'bimbo' was not a Madeline word; and in that situation, 'bimbo' doesn't even make contextual sense. 'Bimbo,' to me means, a synonym for tramp, ho, or any other term for promiscuity. I think that Madeline should have used a word to diminish Nikita's significance and reduced her to an idealistic child who has no comprehension of the world around her.
And I can understand why Nikita/Jones wanted TR out of power in FLYF and I understand that legitimate reasons have rarely mattered inside the power structure of Section (Hello, Sex Police Arc); but Jones/Nikita's reasoning was more than a little hollow. In Nikita's place, I would use examples from TR's less than stellar S4 record.
A little off topic, I think I read a parody of FLYF once, where after the line where Nikita complains that Paul was gone for 26 on Madeline's recommendation, Madeline snarks that it took longer than 26 minutes, and I nearly died from the laughter.
About Adrian's Garden, I have to defend Adrian's 'wordy version of slut.' Yes, it was catty and a cheap shot; but it was also very personal and one of the few times that Madeline was challenged by someone who was a superior. Yes, I know that technically Madeline was equal to Adrian at the time of 'Adrian's Garden;' but even if I get higher degree than one of my former teachers, I will still be deferential to them.
Back to Adrian's 'wordy version of slut,' Adrian clearly has power over Madeline, using Madeline's reluctance to deal with Adrian at the end of the episode as evidence, and their relationship is both mother/daughter and mother/daughter-in-law. So when she calls Madeline a 'wordy version of slut,' (by the way I adore this phrase for some strange reason) Adrian is attacking on multiple levels: You are my daughter and you have failed me; You will never be good enough for my Paul.
Hopefully I can articulate this, but in Psychic Pilgrim, had Madeline's mother made some gesture to acknowledge that Madeline had indeed created 'a hell of her own making' then it would have destroyed Madeline because essentially she could have had a different life. And with that in mind, if Madeline has transferred any of her mommy issues to Adrian, then Adrian had the power to shape and cut like no one else in Madeline's life except for Paul.