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« on: July 05, 2011, 07:09:19 PM »
Vicki's muddling her way along like most people I think, screwing up fairly often when forced to deal with sudden surprises and humans who react in unexpected ways. She's more on the hot seat than we are; we have the luxury of observing from a much less tense and more relaxed vantage point. She probably didn't remember the fact that she hadn't been explaining to Matthew, and thought she had been, because it was in her mind to start explaining the very next moment.
I suppose it was a calculated risk to prod Matthew further, because being at Collinwood was becoming not worth it to her, if she didn't get her past explained. I don't think she was thinking that way about coming to Collinwood at first, but her real prioroties are surfacing, especially since it's not so nice a job, as she's finding out. To Vicki's credit, unexpectedly to me anyway, the risk paid off. Matthew softened, and made with the data.
I suppose it was predictable that it would tick off Liz to be questioned and researched as Vicki's doing. An objective observer like you or me knows, but when you know your heart's in the right place, and you know you don't mean any harm, your path can take you someplace where all of a sudden you're being rude or presumptuous without realizing it until it's "too late". I could see Vicki's and Liz's good intentions colliding, with both being surprised because it was all happening so fast, for one thing. After all, I'm all the way up to episode 9, and I think it's still just Vicki's and Burke's second day in town. And think how young Vicki is.
How about that, Lydia? I don't necessarily disagree with you. If you'd said Vicki was brilliant in this episode, I'd probably have argued the other side...