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Post by Kanna on Apr 30, 2005 10:47:19 GMT
I'm trying to think out some kind of consistent position on Linda re Gordon, and I can't quite figure her out. She seems gleeful when she thinks he's dead, but cries on Gavin's shoulder when she thinks he's fired... Sometimes she seems intelligently critical or even hostile towards him, and at other times she's all starry-eyed admiration. It's like she flickers in and out of sanity.
What on earth does she actually think about him?
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Post by Jennifer on Apr 30, 2005 11:22:17 GMT
I think Linda was just used to support any storyline without actually having a prominent part; a main character without any main storylines.
That's another reason I don't particularly like the character. She has no set personality, or any of her own thoughts.
I guess she did in the ep where she locks Tim in the chicken coop - but that was just a rehash of a few comments made by Linda in previous series. That's really the only part of Linda we've seen.
She's really just an amalgamation of the other characters with a clichéd tendency to be a animal protester, and a lifelong dream to be the first female archbishop of Canterbury.
Sorry - I know you like her, and maybe I would had she been a better rounded character.
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Post by Kanna on May 1, 2005 11:03:25 GMT
No need to apologise, my dear. ¢¾ I don't need people to like my pet characters. My own mother has been known to refer to Linda as "that drip" and I have yet to disown the woman. Fortunately, this doesn't concern Gavin.I'm not so sure of that... I think she really does have a kind of naive, earnest sweetness and eagerness to help that stays constant, right from comforting Carole and being willing to help the course of true love along by shift changes in Ep 1. But I agree that she gets the least character development of the lot... Colin aside, as Colin remains more of a stock joke than anything. (Or Angie and Penny, I guess.) She did need to be rounded out more. I'm just stuck trying to think out how the hell she really regards her boss. I have to like any girl who plays with dolls.  And I have to keep posting, obviously, until I stop being Colin, because that scares me. I liked being a pool attendant much better. ~sniffle~ |
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Post by Jennifer on May 1, 2005 12:15:45 GMT
hehehe! What am I? Ooh! I'm deputy manager!
I guess I would have liked Linda had she been a better rounded character. I agree with you about Colin, too; the only kind of character development he was given was in series six, and that just didn't work. His characteristics are founded on the fact that he's a walking joke with more fleas than braincells. Anything else just doesn't work.
I honestly don't know what Linda thought of Brittas; and I don't think any of the writers did. It's one of Life's great mysteries, that one.
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Post by Kanna on May 2, 2005 12:42:39 GMT
<i>What</i> was with the marriage thing? It just creeped me out.
I want to be deputy manager. ~sniffles~
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Post by Jennifer on May 2, 2005 19:02:39 GMT
I wish I knew where the marriage thing had come from; my best guess is from 'Pregnant', and maybe he'd just taken Brittas' advice too literally? Hmm. Well - you can't have my job! Not until my garden's blown up and I'm blind, have lost an aunt, and lost all of my money, will I then be promoted to 'Manager in Charge of Building Fabric' and THEN, and only THEN, can you have my job.  |
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Post by inkling on Sept 4, 2005 1:38:41 GMT
Well, maybe she both admires him and is annoyed by him, and then recovers from being annoyed and is back to admiration.
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Post by timandgavin4ever on Sept 8, 2005 3:26:27 GMT
She's just a very unjudging girl. She is such a sweetheart she really has no opinion of her own about that whereas Colin is very pro-brittas
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Post by Totoffle on Sept 11, 2005 22:46:52 GMT
From what I can see, Linda DOES like Brittas. She just doesn't like some of the things he says or does. A bit like Laura I guess. Colin on the other hand rarely sees the bad side, and Tim rarely sees the good side.
Characters like Linda and Laura choose to see Brittas' good side, but certainly aren't blind to his (many) faults!
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Post by timandgavin4ever on Sept 12, 2005 0:29:24 GMT
yes. Julie and Tim on one side, Linda and Colin on the other. Laura is in the middle with Gavin and Carole.
Helen is well, just Helen
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Post by Totoffle on Sept 12, 2005 17:05:15 GMT
If there was a vote to get rid of Brittas, I think Colin and Linda would be the ones to vote for him to stay. Laura perhaps, and Carole... maybe. But Julie and Tim, no way.
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Post by Zusi on Jan 17, 2006 22:08:55 GMT
I agree with that, only Julie did find she missed him when he went.
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Post by simfelemy on Feb 19, 2006 23:56:32 GMT
Linda seems so enthusiastic about everything, she's incredibly naive. It's only when she becomes an animal activist in the last two years or so that we see her as more than just an exuberant Brittas supporter.
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Post by footy on May 30, 2006 15:10:25 GMT
well I think she likes Mr Brittas to an extent and if he does anything to upset or harm her friends or animal friends well she can be a bit angry, like when Brittas had the dolphin what turned out to be a shark in the pool, and she started a protest outside.
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