by Rembrant » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:09 pm
I'm sorry, but I cannot help but seeing Jean as a sneaky, soap-opera villain bitch, because her supposed efforts to get Peter and Sarah to reconcile are just being so shady. Let me count the ways I saw. She first tried seducing Peter by offering herself to him in such an in-your-face way, right after he had been almost raped, which was about the most retarded thing I have ever seen in this comic (and that's saying a lot considering the pack's habit of being retarded), but Peter turned her down because he wants to make things right with Sarah.
So Jean says she's gonna help reconcile these two, but what have we seen her doing so far? First she insisted on the sex bit immediately after Peter had already said no. Next, when together at the gym, Jean called it "test of the emergency cocktease system", but I call it "blatant attempt at seduction". Notice Peter said "you promised you'd back off until tonight", so that, coupled with her comments and behavior during that sequence, just scream at me that she's still trying to seduce Peter in hopes of keeping him for herself, and Peter's being too much of a wuss to go tell her to go fuck herself with a baseball bat and leave him be.
And now she's cleared up the mess by explaining what happened, fine. But where did this whole thing about Peter not being her teacher anymore come from? The Pack decided? Why did that happen offscreen, if it even actually happened? Anyway, brushing that aside, Jean's pretty much stating that she'll likely be Sarah's next teacher and that Peter now won't live with Sarah anymore. Convenient how that sounds like Peter now stays closer to Jean back home and away from Sarah here. Plus she seems to be putting a lot of energy on hammering the "you misunderstood" point on Sarah, when Sarah already understood it right from the get-go. She obviously already got the message, why does Jean just keep yammering on about it? That makes it look like she's kicking Sarah while she's down.
Then there's the whole "since you dumped Peter, you need a new teacher", and "packing Peter's stuff, cause he obviously doesn't need to stay because you dumped him". Why is she putting extra emphasis on the whole dumping thing? That just makes it sound all the more like she's trying to make sure it's official that Peter and Sarah are not together anymore. It definitely doesn't sound like a reconciliation plan to me. And yet again we get it all coupled with Peter being a complete silent wuss, just sitting there, staring at empty space, doing nothing, saying nothing, letting Jean run her smartass, never-shuts-up, big-ass loud mouth, when it's him and Sarah who should be talking about this. What in the world happened with the backbone he grew when he turned down Jean?
I don't know, but whatever happens in the upcoming pages, it had better be golden to wash away the horrid taste this page left in my mouth. Bleh.