Gifted
Mar18
on 2019-03-18
at 00:01
Hmm, Pixie never did show any guilt over Bruno leaving the company…
↓ Transcript
Bruno
Peg, you’re so vibrant and smart, and I’m so lucky to have met you.
Peggy
And you’ve got stamina that could shame a racehorse.
Bruno
Is that all you see in me?
Peggy
Hey. It’s important. No one else can keep up with me. Or take proper care of my needs. But it’s not your most endearing trait.
Bruno
And what’s that?
Peggy
You’re “God’s Gift To Women.”
Bruno
That’s endearing? Of course, I’m not really serious about it, but doesn’t it bother you that I’m an incurable flirt?
Peggy
Oh, you’re very serious about it. You flirt with every woman to some extent. It’s not to get into her pants. You don’t tear into a woman’s self-worth. You praise them, encourage them, and when you do push, they react in a way that ultimately empowers them.
Bruno
I never saw it that way. I get kicked and slapped a lot. And I caused those receptionists at GibsCo to quit.
Peggy
Didn’t one get up the nerve to enlist in the Army after you’d told her she’d do great? And another went back to school, didn’t she. And did the third one not go find a more challenging job once you convinced her she was wasting her talent? And when a woman smacks you, does she crawl away, or strut?
And you don’t just go for the pretty ones. You find something admirable in every woman, regardless of looks or age. You even have something nice to say about any man you meet.
You know why you get asked over for dinner? My grandmother sings when she hears you’re coming. She hadn’t done that since my uncle and cousins got killed in that awful wreck. And the way you reduce Mother into giggling fits is just priceless. Even Daddy likes that about you.
Admit it, I was your first, and I know you’d never actually cheat on me.
Bruno
Yes and yes.
Peggy
And I haven’t even had to threaten you with emasculation if you did stray.
Bruno
Of course not. Your father covered that.
Peg, you’re so vibrant and smart, and I’m so lucky to have met you.
Peggy
And you’ve got stamina that could shame a racehorse.
Bruno
Is that all you see in me?
Peggy
Hey. It’s important. No one else can keep up with me. Or take proper care of my needs. But it’s not your most endearing trait.
Bruno
And what’s that?
Peggy
You’re “God’s Gift To Women.”
Bruno
That’s endearing? Of course, I’m not really serious about it, but doesn’t it bother you that I’m an incurable flirt?
Peggy
Oh, you’re very serious about it. You flirt with every woman to some extent. It’s not to get into her pants. You don’t tear into a woman’s self-worth. You praise them, encourage them, and when you do push, they react in a way that ultimately empowers them.
Bruno
I never saw it that way. I get kicked and slapped a lot. And I caused those receptionists at GibsCo to quit.
Peggy
Didn’t one get up the nerve to enlist in the Army after you’d told her she’d do great? And another went back to school, didn’t she. And did the third one not go find a more challenging job once you convinced her she was wasting her talent? And when a woman smacks you, does she crawl away, or strut?
And you don’t just go for the pretty ones. You find something admirable in every woman, regardless of looks or age. You even have something nice to say about any man you meet.
You know why you get asked over for dinner? My grandmother sings when she hears you’re coming. She hadn’t done that since my uncle and cousins got killed in that awful wreck. And the way you reduce Mother into giggling fits is just priceless. Even Daddy likes that about you.
Admit it, I was your first, and I know you’d never actually cheat on me.
Bruno
Yes and yes.
Peggy
And I haven’t even had to threaten you with emasculation if you did stray.
Bruno
Of course not. Your father covered that.
Discussion (27) ¬
Looks like he and Ace are a matching pair after all.
Me thinks Andy is doing a little “retcon” here.
Explaining actions isn’t ‘retconning’ anything
And we didn’t see half of what was mentioned here: the only receptionist we ever saw at GibbsCo was Carly
True, so long as you’re filling in holes, not directly changing established facts from earlier, it’s not quite “Retconning”.
Think of it as “adding depth”.
“Retconning” has a wider range of meaning than what you two suppose. What Andy is doing falls under “addition” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity
Vast majority associate ‘retcon’ with ‘changing history’ rather than ‘expanding the past’
Even THAT wikipedia article stipulates that Retconning means “breaking continuity with the earlier work”.
The definition you’re quoting here implies that the new history will contradict at-least part of the previously established continuity. To me, this page feels like these new insights have brought a new perspective on history, without contradicting any of it.
Nothing on this page seems to contradict anything from the Author’s previous pages. The only things I can see being contradicted here are my preconceptions about Bruno. This doesn’t fit my impression of the word “retcon”.
I think that one of the marks of a skilled storyteller is the ability to paint a picture of some situation or character, & then reveal at some later point that we have seriously misread the situation/character. Whether it’s done to unveil the villain’s true evil, or to discover that the “heel” has sacrificed for a noble cause, it yanks us out of our complacency, & keeps us riveted to the storyline.
We’ve never actually seen him do more than overly aggressive flirting, and there is a reason why there is the stereotype of the guy who talks the most about his conquests actually getting the least amount of action.
[AndyOH!]:
Re_”Hmm, Pixie never did show any guilt over Bruno leaving the company…”
=====True. She was only concerned about possible legal repercussions, for having “nailed him good”.
I’m not certain how much Pixie’s actions and talking to Ace about them wasn’t to give Ace an excuse to give Bruni his job back. I seriously doubt that was Bruno’s first time making a pass at her, yet it was the first time she slammed her knee into his crotch. The coincidence is just a bit convenient.
Re_”Peggy’s 5th word-balloon”:
=====This represents a rather impressive degree of background-checking, that she’s had done on Bruno, & on the women he’s affected. I wonder how many of those women were actually interviewed, as part of Bruno’s background-check, as opposed to merely getting studied from afar?
“That’s what private investigators are for.” – Peg Walker.
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