Tara ,'First Date'
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But, see, I think that's the point! She just LOOKS like she's pretty together, a few twitches, but...
I never thought that she was together. She always seemed needy and clingy with the mooning and the manicotti. It wasn't until the recent episodes that she got a personality, and frankly, it was a complete turnaround, not just of her, but of Paul's attitude towards her.
and frankly, it was a complete turnaround, not just of her, but of Paul's attitude towards her.
I must admit, I blamed that on pilot-itis.
I was a little annoyed, because they could have still made her the neighbor with a crush but give her some personality in the beginning. They even could have redeemed the character by having her bring him some Tupperware with the pills and saying "no, it's really leftover this time, I've given up trying to impress you"
The whole Mellie/Paul thing was too fast. It's like she was crush!neighbor with the puppy-dog drool one second, and then she's got a key and cosy take-out?
Nope.
I guess I can see going from "Hi, neighbor!" to sleeping together and getting the run of the place over a couple of weeks if their earlier meetings had possessed mutual chemistry. But I just can't get past the fact that someone as obviously desperate and clingy as Mellie was early on would have had me creeping home silently below the eye level of the peepholes.
Yep, Matt. There was no "hey, there, baby" from Ballard at all.
Maybe it was the Vicodin?
Eh, her being nice to him was about the only good thing in his life right then. There are worse reasons to sleep with someone.
Heh. Last year I thought I was going to have my own constantly-up-in-my-business neighbor across the hall, but after about a week and a half of not being able to sleep due to the nearby railroad she moved back out.
We thought Mellie/Paul came on fast because of the stuff assy co-worker guy said about Paul having a love on for Caroline. This was his way (uninitentionally, I think) of disproving that theory.
See, but for me the thing is, now we know that all of her behavior is engineered. Of course she was a little clingy and creepy, and obsessed with infiltrating his life and watching him. That's how she's programmed.
I think my big problem here is that I over-identified with the character, and now she's a lie, and I feel let down. My issues, let me show you them.