Just Skimmed Through STORMS

[danax6]

^ Most of what you brought up has already been touched upon in this thread, and I agree with every little bit if your post, but I want to come back to this bit a little:

Originally Posted by michelej1

So, if Lindsey was so violent, why did Carol have to run and tell Lindsey that Stevie grabbed her and said she would never let Carol marry Lindsey? It sounds to me like Carol wanted Lindsey to go and beat Stevie up. After she tattled on Stevie, Carol doesn't know what happened between Lindsey and Stevie, but she describes Stevie being so frightened and nervous that it sounds like Carol thinks Lindsey DID beat Stevie up, but I'm guessing he probably . . . well. Do you notice that Carol never describes any of the more tender moments between Lindsey and Stevie?

Carol describes Stevie talking to her about how to be Lindsey's perfect mate. Carol was enraged when she realized the whole conversation was being videotaped. She ran and told Lindsey and Lindsey just laughed. I get the feeling that Carol was hoping Lindsey would get mad at Stevie. This time her tattling didn't pay off.

The way she described the interaction between herself and Stevie most of the time reminded me of kindergarten. CAH acts like it was a constant competition between the two, but in the meantime all she really wants is to be friends with Stevie. You mentioned the tattletaling she did on several occasions, but there also instances like during the awards season, when CAH was over the moon because according to her all eyes went to her when she walked into the room, instead of to Stevie, who could usually wear a trash bag and people still noticed her because she was always very present. CAH was the better dressed one that evening and she was gloating.

Then she also describes Lindsey's behaviour of mocking Stevie on stage as funny. To me that doesn't sound like someone who really respects a person and wants nothing more than to be her friend. She constantly keeps bringing up the fact that she can't compete with Stevie. I find that combined with her running off to Lindsey every time Stevie does something a tad disturbing. Especially when she then brings up that sometimes she and Lindsey would slip into the little girl/daddy roles.

I don't buy for a second that she really just wanted to be Stevie's friend. If that was the case she could have stood up for herself and told Stevie to go to hell, or sat her down at one point and asked Stevie was the problem was. Something, anything, instead of running off to 'daddy' every time CAH felt Stevie did her wrong.

As for the lack of tender moments... yes. We've discussed this before, but it was all part of CAH's master plan of making Stevie as insignificant as possible, making her role in Lindsey's life seem more important.