"Simon Dean" <sjdean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>I've never seen it... I live in the UK, but it seems Lois is saying
how
> >>>>even I feel! I'm 26, but I'll never be seen as an adult by my
parents.
> >
> >
> > Same case with me. But in Lois's case this seems compounded by the
fact
she
> > has near total loathe for them.
>
> I think that's demonstrated, when was it, second or third season? "I
> would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat".
Boy...shows how long it's been for me - I don't particularly remember that
quote. But it does underscore how she seems to have a certain vendetta
with
Malcolm, quite possibly more than with Francis.
> I don't know whether
> its loathe so much, or just that she knows he's fine on his own and
> doesn't need so much attention. But consequently, Malcolm's losing the
> way I think.
On the contrary, of all the kids she seems to pay the most obsessive
attention to him. Even though he is smarter and achieves more, she still
tends to put him on par with Reese (who deserves it more). From what I
can
gather, she feels mostly threatened by his intelligence as an independent
individual - that she is afraid to allow him to subsist on his own
intelligence because she would then have less influence. And, since he is
obviously smarter and a better person than her, I am sure a lot of it is
jealousy.
Obviously her kids (and occasionally Hal) are her only outlet of control.
Her issues with Francis are obvious; Dewey is the youngest, cutest, and
the
favorite; and in some twisted way Reese enables her with all his antics so
she most likely has no problem with that. It's Malcolm that poses the
biggest threat to her philosophy of blind following because he knows so
much.
One good observation about Malcolm losing his way though - when you get to
Season 5, it may seem to you like they're making Reese out to be the
better
son. It's odd but I have noticed it this year anyway.
> > I should have been a little specific as I was in a little but of a
hurry
> > when I made the original post (but there is a slight spoiler warning
here).
> >
> > Lois "got" Malcolm a job at Lucky Aide then she wrote him up for doing
a
> > more efficient job of flattening boxes than the store rules would
allow.
> > (You weren't supposed to flatten boxes close to the dumpster and he
did.)
> > He catches her smoking on a break and she implores him not to tell
anyone
> > because Hal doesn't know she is. Nonetheless, she writes him up for
the
box
> > rule again later. Thus showing she has absolutely no character or
> > conscience at all when it comes to her children.
>
> Not sure what wrote him up means. Is that a good thing or a bad thing.
"Wrote him up" - happens on the job when you do something wrong;
do***ented
some type of occurrence of rule breaking in writing.
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