I'm reading it with a great deal of trepidation and cringing at every page. I really hope the writer doesn't pull something like revealing Tilly to have a tragic backstory and bad circumstances (which obvs she's in a bad circumstance right now) and thus having the current cast feel sorry for them and accept them into their circle.
"You're not allowed behind the counter." made me cheer.
Yes, my suspicion is that Hannelore's mother is holding something over Tilly to compel her to serve/normalize Hannelore, some horrifying incentive. Then Hannelore, finding out, calls her mother and screams at her for abusing Tilly.
That still doesn't make it okay.
However, climbing over the counter is not normal human behavior, so possibly Tilly is a bot. But I'd have expected Winslow to rumble her, unless, as I said, she has a horrific sob story to justify behaving in the controlling way that Hannelore's mother would love to behave.
It's weird that Tilly was given no information like "client works in a coffee shop."
I initially read Tilly as a robot, and was surprised when she got offered pancakes, since the robots don't eat. Possibly that was Windslow trying to suss out whether she was bot or human, and she foiled him by accepting?
Of the robot characters, only Bubbles seems to have the kind of sensor suite that would instantly detect if a person she is talking to is a human or a robot. We shall see if Bubbles and Tilly meet.
The vast majority of the writing and acting is so very awkward as robe baffling. I don't hate most of it but really want the show to get a lot better soon.
I think that catlinyemaker didn't click on the link and thought you were talking about a character on Star Trek: Discovery.
(Which I haven't watched yet, so I'm not sure whether 'robe baffling' is a reference to something in the show, or some piece of jargon I'm not familiar with, or is an intriguing typo, or some combination of those.)
I generally trust Jeph Jacques as a storyteller, so I'm willing to stick this out and see where it goes - but, yeah, Tilly's whole raison-d'etre is just so uncomfortable. Good intentions are dandy and all, but not when they run rampant all over someone else's comfort zones (and, ffs, work).
Assuming that Tilly has accepted significant portions of mom's viewpoint: "That's not work, that's a hobby she uses to pass the time during this rebellious phase she's going through. It's not like she needs the money."
I find it an interesting reflection of Hanners' mom's awfulness that Hannelore blithely accepts and internalizes her mom's mistake of Tilly's name, and that Tilly, while clearly wanting to assert her real name, *never* does so forcefully.
(It *could* be a conscious micro-aggression on H's part, but if so, that would be an even more indictment of her mom's influence.)
I have a feeling here that Hannelore's mom is testing Tilly in some way - will she be a good enough judge of the situatio to realise that she really isn't wanted or needed?
As I mentioned in the other thread, I'm more of an opinion that Ms. Chatham is trying to test or teach Hannelore. Tilly is just a tool in this regard. And, well, in others.
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"You're not allowed behind the counter." made me cheer.
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That still doesn't make it okay.
However, climbing over the counter is not normal human behavior, so possibly Tilly is a bot. But I'd have expected Winslow to rumble her, unless, as I said, she has a horrific sob story to justify behaving in the controlling way that Hannelore's mother would love to behave.
It's weird that Tilly was given no information like "client works in a coffee shop."
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(Anonymous) 2017-11-19 05:40 am (UTC)(link)--
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(Which I haven't watched yet, so I'm not sure whether 'robe baffling' is a reference to something in the show, or some piece of jargon I'm not familiar with, or is an intriguing typo, or some combination of those.)
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Just... somewhere unpleasant, where the customers probably deserve her as much as she deserves them.
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(It *could* be a conscious micro-aggression on H's part, but if so, that would be an even more indictment of her mom's influence.)
That said, I am also upset by this storyline.
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I want my Bubbles plotline to resume, dang it!
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(Anonymous) 2017-11-18 12:22 am (UTC)(link)--
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Bubbles will be here tomorrow.
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