Annotated 19-18
The script for this page mentioned “dark ritual props,” but it did not specifically mention a mobile of voodoo dolls, dreamcatchers, and/or a monkey’s paw (which has various roots in pop culture all stemming from the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs). That was all John. (There may be other specific references here that I’m missing.)
Carol’s once-strong people skills are starting to succumb to the pressure she’s under, and she’s only just gotten done venting some of it down onto her subordinate. And whom does HR have to vent his pressure down onto?
This can’t possibly have been intentional, but it is interesting: if you want to push Fans Shanna’s buttons, the best way to do it is imply she’s crazy or just mentally unsound. As a version of her joins the cast, one of her biggest issues manifests itself in another character. Granted, HR is already looking more unbalanced than she did on her worst day.
“Driving me…”
“Driving you what?”
“Driving me to change my very obvious line that relates to your current condition because I figured your too dumb now to figure that one out. So genius, invented anything new today? Heard you’re pretty smart and all that! Heheheee…”
And surprisingly many a times this even works. And now even do to some “Oh, you. You’re so considerate. Okay, I play along, even though I instantly understood where you were going with that.” but rather because they genuinely just somehow didn’t catch that. And I’d say that maybe I could never see it working like that with the people I know because they are generally pretty smart bunch of people, but…
So is HR here. He’s that genius-scale guy. Sure, might be a bit autistic or somesuch, but still…
Main-gist, some troupes are just hard to understand…
Christ. I even thought “should I check the text?” and went with “naa, is prolly fine…” XD
If someone wasn’t expecting to need to listen to something, it’s really easy to not actually understand what was being implied.
“Is something amiss?”
“Amiss? God, no, what could possibly be amiss?”