Penny and Aggie/Recap/The New Reality, Part Two: Difference between revisions

Sara and Lucy, arms around each other as they walk down the street, share a laugh over how well their deception went. Sara tells Lucy that, apart from the one night she doubted her, she's always known she could trust her, although she wasn't sure Lucy would get her out-of-character lines right just then. Lucy cheerfully admits to being slow, but nevertheless able to act well when she understands her lines and sees their authenticity. As she expresses hope that this will make up for her being a "burden" to others, Sara kisses her. Lucy responds in kind; however, Sara breaks it off, telling her she has a girlfriend. Lucy accepts this, but then Sara notices a hotel across the street and is tempted once again. Reading her mind, Lucy tells Sara not to do things that won't make her happy, and they head back to their quarters.

 

 

Welcoming Sara home are her parents, Penny, Aggie and Daphne, who immediately tries to smother her girlfriend with hugs and kisses, oblivious to her standoffish attitude barely concealed by her claim that her parents are right there. Penny gently admonishes her for not giving her advance notice that her "first love" would appear on national TV, but says that given what had gone on with Cyndi the previous week, she's not upset. Daphne demands to know how Sara kept herself from strangling Hilary and Lucy. Sara responds evasively that they'll talk about that later, and asks what went on with Cyndi.

{{quote|I think what's important is for a man to stop takin' the world's crap and start pushin' back. An' you're a little bit Penny, but you're a lot more man then most men I know. You can own this. So ''own'' this.}}

* [[Show, Don't Tell]]: More than perhaps any other arc in a comic already known for its tendency to minimize exposition and show only snippets of conversations, this chapter, as originally presented, created considerable reader confusion. Among the questions that readers had were: How did Sara go from having a [[Heroic BSOD|nervous breakdown]] in one strip to being confidently [[Genre Savvy]], with her own gambit, in the next one? Did Sara and Lucy really frame, or try to frame, Hilary as a national security risk, or were they merely bluffing? What is ''No Exit'' about, and how does it relate to the themes of this arc? Campbell admitted that he'd rushed the second part of the story, out of concern that the comic would spend too much time [[Lower Deck Episode|away from the main cast]]. Rather than simply clarifying these major plot points [[All There in the Manual|in the forum]] and leaving it at that, he and Waltrip later added three strips of "Leted Scenes," with indications as to where they fell within the arc.

* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: Sara's and Rich's, as well as Sara's and Lucy's.

 

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