Le Chat Stupide

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Yeah, that Hollywood sure is crazy all right. This arc was a perfect example. What a wacky place, like how they changed the cancer screenplay so that Lisa lived, the way they wrote an adopted son into the script, the way they go to restaurants…man, the zaniness is just overwhelming in Hollywood, just totally nutty. No wonder Thelma (who, like Mason, only gets to have a personality at the END of the story) is seeing an imaginary cat that Les talks to when he’s agonizing over writing about his dead wife. Very clever, Author Guy, very clever.

And all this time it’s been that damned cat that’s made Les the single most objectionable character in the history of ever. I see. Perhaps Batom needs to slow down with the seasonal craft beers until AFTER he finishes one of these mega-long arcs. What’s another ten minutes, right?

But seriously, if this is indeed the end of the epically annoying screenplay arc, talk about ending with a resounding thud. You can almost hear the sad trombone after panel three….”whaaaa-waaaa”. TB’s the master of the anticlimax, it’s like he wants to just get it over with as much as his readers do. What a dreary display.

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Author: Epicus Doomus

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15 thoughts on “Le Chat Stupide”

  1. I bet Thelma was all in Les’s head, too. The good part of his fractured psyche, trying its best to motivate him by calling him “writer guy”.

  3. And all this time it’s been that damned cat that’s made Les the single most objectionable character in the history of ever.

    Well, I would disagree with this. The cat simply points at Les and says “Here.”

    I’d say the false note this time around is Thelma’s concern for Les. She’s been around enough to know what a true douchebag looks like. Plus, Les we forget, she’s just been fired, and it wasn’t a cat who fired her.

  4. Listen… I’ve worked in a relatively small section of the film industry, and yes, a lot of them are crazy. But, like…

    “Bye! I haven’t actually accomplished anything! Bye! I’ve given up all my dreams! Bye! I’d rather be complacent with the status quo than change anything! Bye! I’d prefer not to finish what I start! Bye! I don’t need Hollywood™, which is the ONLY available path for those who venture into the film/video business! Bye! And also eff you forever.”

  6. Le Chat was right about Les all along. He couldn’t handle the gig, he folded under the pressure, he accomplished nothing and he has nothing to show for it either. Some other odds and ends re: the big mega screenplay arc of 2011-2014…

    At first he was first-class nitwit, but then Mason was revealed to be an insecure narcissist full of self-doubt. Thelma was originally a jaded, hard-boiled curmudgeon, but then she became more of a cynical jaded curmudgeon. And coincidentally enough, they both liked and related to Les. That makes such perfect sense when you think about where he’s from.

    When you cut right to the chase, Les is happy because his beloved Lisa still dies at the end. Think about that for a second and ponder how demented it is.

    No character has changed less during Act III than Les has. Funky dried out. Holly collects comic books. Cory’s in the military. Summer is at KSU. Cayla apparently began abusing sedatives. Crazy isn’t a mailman anymore. Wally got a dog. But Les? He’s still pining over Lisa and that book of his and he’s just as unbearably obnoxious as he ever was.

    Thelma goes from ice queen to respected chum in a few panels but Les is forever stuck in 2007 (or 2017, depending). Thus the key to rapid FW character development is to never use those characters again.

  8. @Epicus Doomus: All because he was told to not move on by another annoying idiot: Saint Dead “I keep forgetting how stupid Les is” Lisa.

  9. So Barbie just gives up on her documentary about her father, John Darling for no real reason. And Les just gives up on his chance to turn his book into a movie for no real reason.

    I guess the only thing worth completing around here is somebody else’s comic book collection?

  10. The Cat is a god damned hallucination! What is so hard to understand about that? Did Batiuk forget what his own creation was?

  12. Right, that’s the problem — Less is too hard on himself, he needs to lighten up. I think the real problem is that Less is the biggest a-hole in existence, but hey! I’m not a writer, so what do I know.

  13. Here’s a better ending that I thought up in 1 minute. Why steal from M. Night Shyamalan when you could steal from & name-drop Rod Serling?

    THELMA: Listen, kitty. I was here with Fritz Lang—Cecil B. DeMille, Mr. Chaplin, Kubrick, dear sweet Harlan Ellison, and Rod Serling himself. Even had a roll in the hay with Eddie Wood. I could see all their demons. So, kitten, I had no trouble seeing you.

    We SEE LE CHAT BLEU and THELMA fade from existence until THE ROOM is empty.

    FADE TO BLACK

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