Becky's career : Dead and getting deader.

[dreadedcandiru2]

It seems obvious to me now that Lynn plans to have Becky blurt out something derogatory about the Special Needs students the Telethon of Tedium is somehow meant to benefit. I can readily imagine why this might happen in the real world. You can't help but notice that she shows all the hallmarks of being an ordinary mortal nowadays. The bright, shiny hopes she had for her future in the music industry have pretty much been dashed, you see. The entourage and screeching fans vanished along with her oh-so-fleeting fame. Such is the fate of the just-add-water celebrity. Nowadays, she's been reduced to playing any gig she can in the vain hope of kick-starting a career that got put up on blocks long ago. She might, out of sheer frustration, say something hateful she doesn't really mean and, by some coincidence, be seen and heard to say it by a mass audience. You and I might try to give the child the benefit of the doubt but you can be damn sure the April Pattersons of this world will NOT. Trying to appeal to sweet reason marks us as a bunch of picky-faces in her eyes as she storms away from ex-bandmates to try to get her to do the same. We can look forward to an indeterminate future wherein April becomes an inept interlocutor for the disadvantaged while her arch-rival twists sloooooooooooooooowly in the wind.

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[howtheduck.livejournal.com]

It is not obvious to me this is the way it's going to go for these reasons:

1. Becky is performing for free at a charity associated with Shannon Lake.
2. Shannon has on a few occasions, slammed Becky, like the infamous "Roket to Mars" thought balloon, and yet she does not say one bad word about Becky. Not only that, but she doesn't respond when April slams Becky and Gerald, except to say there are two stages. This is practically a ringing endorsement from Shannon.
3. April's band member friends have sided with Gerald, judging from the strip on the lunchtime sitting. Eva referred to it as "just a telethon."
4. The one and only time we have seen Becky after her humiliation at the Gym / Jam, was her March appearance at the mall where she was walking alone. It was the first time since Becky broke with 4Evah, where she was not portrayed as bragging to someone about how well her career has been going. I interpreted this as "humbled Becky".
5. Each Patterson child has been shown to have converted a villain to good. Mike converted Brad Luggsworth. Liz converted Candace Halloran. Given that this is June and school won't be in sesson again until September, when the strip is supposed to go hybrid; this is Lynn Johnston's last chance to show Becky converted to good through April's influence.

I may be wrong and Lynn Johnston may revert to form and have Becky humiliated again, but I predict a different outcome this time.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

HmmmmHmmmm. Makes sense. We could even see Becky joining Luis in administering the not-quite-smackdown to the Martian, couldn't we?