User blog comment:Corbierr/Things about the show that drive you nuts./@comment-5450362-20140311045546/@comment-4816103-20140311222647

That frustrating moment when you're writing and you accidentally click the back button on your computer and have to start over.

Anyways, yeah, a rivalry would have been great. (Especially over this one certain guy, wink wink nudge nudge) I do notice that when friends become rivals over something, sure there is a lot of tension, a lot of bad moments between the two, but when they reconcile...they seem to appreciate their friend more. They grow, they learn, and Joytricia never really did that. After Joy played hero things were fine, there were no real lessons at all as Joy never understood that she was the problem in the first place and when she joined Sibuna, Patricia came back to her side like nothing had ever happened. But a rivalry- or at least a long lasting friendship break- would have been more effective in making them grow up as friends. But why do I have a bad feeling that Patricia would have been the one to 'learn' more, despite that she's like the one person in the House besides Fabian who never really needed a friendship lesson? IDK, It's just a gut feeling that that's how it would have gone down...

And yeah, not really sure if Joy would have gone to the same extremes...she may have been too focused in Fabian to really do much...But yet I feel Patricia would have saved herself, or would have at least put up a hell of a fight, but that doesn't really solve anything...

IDK, I still have to say that Patricia could have also made the attempt to talk to Joy, but Joy was the one who was sort of being cold to her, like in the Gatehouse, and when Patricia mentioned that Joy could rejoin Sibuna if she wanted...

It goes back to how Patricia seems centered around how she interacts with others, really. No matter what happens, she always seems fixed on how it would hurt someone she cares for / her relationship with that person. Even when she was saved from being kidnapped, she seemed more interested in just using the opportunity to find out more about Joy than thinking about herself and the fact that she was just kidnapped and how that sort of warrants being worried about herself. Joy, well, yeah, she always has been a little more self-centered. Not that she's not capable of being selfless, just look at season 3, but I think you know what I'm getting at. While Patricia is usually the one to offer forgiveness and help Joy despite her problems, Joy was always more focused on what she was doing. If she's not self-centered, she's at least not focused on Patricia... What I think I'm trying to get at here, Joy could have been a better friend and Joytricia might not have fallen apart if she just learned to worry about people like Patricia for once. Might have saved a lot of sinner trouble if she had just noticed Patricia's heartbreak....

Dang it they just keep getting longer and more in depth Queenie. We're nuts. And I love that.