Well, maybe not quite the breakthrough they were hoping for.
Yes, this on-the-edge obsession of Deanna to make Mike a success is my tribute to the "small sewing school" future in the Strip of Destiny, which clearly wasn't going to work unless Mike could support the family himself. It hasn't occurred to Deanna that she might not feel work was such a drudgery if she weren't run ragged doing everything so that Mike is left free of all responsibilities except his muse.
Wilf clearly has his own ideas of the root of this obsession.
Either way, Deanna is doing everything, because while freelance writers complete projects on their own time, Mike has been given a ton with hard-to-schedule subjects. (Maybe he's annoyed people in the industry?) And it looks like Mike has neither been asked to nor has he figured out on his own to use the rest of his time wisely.
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Deanna looks like she's ready to crack up here. Her idiot husband clearly has no idea how damaging his selfish refusal to grow the hell up and spend his time wisely is. Judging from Wilf's reaction to her babbling, it looks as if John might have competition trying to unwedge the Delicate Genius's head from his rectum. I mean, Deanna is clearly to prove to herself that Mike feels something for her when he just plain doesn't.
Definitely looks like something's going on here. Like his writing career here's going downhill.
I'm beginning to wonder if Mike has a real job which keeps him from doing his writing at regular hours...a job which he has been hiding from Deanna out of pride.
godozo--
That's an interesting point, but I can't imagine Mike, even alterna-universe Mike, doing something like that without making a big honking deal about it. Plus, Dee would find out--there's no question in my mind that she does all the finances in the household (although if the paychecks were coming from a company with a generic enough name, he might be able to say it's for a job he did for them).
Wilf's great, but I wish he's actually say that out loud. In Johnston's version, people constantly thought-bubbled at each other and never really talked to each other. I'd love for them to get past that.
echo Patience - Wilf has been thinking such things for a long time. Christmas Eve is not the best time to say it.
Especially when everybody else around him can't stop arguing :-)
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