It's All Our Yesterdays! Because the horse is in on it.
This is the strip where Muir turned Jan from a stupid white straw liberal to a stupid Hispanic straw liberal. This is pretty much a variant on--well, Damon's entire schtick--but also a big mistake. The entire 'joke' of Jan and Damon's relationship was that she was the stupid white girl who kept insisting that she knew how a minority member was supposed to act. But now--now she becomes a minority member herself, destroying the entire irony. Instead of a clueless member of the majority trying to patronizingly dictate how a member of the minorities act based on a platonic ideal, she is a fellow minority member, who has a practical knowledge of how they 'should' act and is now arguably puzzled at Damon's acting clearly against his own self-interest. She's gone from an ignorant fool to a person with a comparable experience.
But then again, this is Muir we're talking about. Thinking things through is not a strong point.
Monday, September 14, 2009
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