#thermoman

George and Janet are still clearly in the honeymoon phase, and he’s proving to be a sweet, overly-doting boyfriend with all the presents. Also, multiple breakfast roast ftw. I’m not overly fond of pork, and never eaten lamb, but there is nothing I love more than a good beef roast with all the fixings. Can’t say I wouldn’t eat one for breakfast, despite being like Janet and liable to burst if I eat too much first thing.

I think this may be the only time we see Mrs Raven doing anything that could remotely be considered thoughtful, though framing the pic probably had at least as much to do with her crush on Thermoman as it did with getting Janet a memento.

Oh, God, George is me trying to make casual conversation and accidentally saying the worst thing. I have been known to utterly fail my social cues and say something I was supposed to keep secret in front of the exact wrong person if no one explicitly says not to tell that person anything.

Also, the way this all plays out, with Piers’ hilariously stupid cardboard and Ella becoming a new patient, slightly confirms my headcanon that everything was new for the characters, too. Janet hasn’t been working at the health center very long and Piers is probably still fairly new to being a celebrity. He’s also, still, at this moment a deeply horrible, vain, self-absorbed person. But, knowing what we know later, this, once again, becomes just a little sad.

“Look at me, I’m very important and good-looking! Am I doing this right? This is what you have to do to make people like you, right?” And genuinely having no.idea. what he’s doing wrong as far as being actually likable instead of just popular.

(Honestly, if I ever get through typing these things this time, I should really sit down and type up all my thinky-thoughts about Piers. He’s surprisingly deep for such a shallow person.)

“That’s all life is: the odd, brief smile in the midst of prolonged weeping.” Sounds about right, Mrs Raven.

Now, I really don’t understand why everyone thinks Tyler is insane. Sure, he’s maybe fried his brains, but a lot of what he said turns out to be true. Is he, possibly, the victim of a mindwipe gone wrong? He speaks Ultronian, after all. The Ultron Council is scary strict, I have a theory (never confirmed) that he was possibly a superhero, himself, and effed up so bad he was stripped of both powers and memories. Maybe his so-called hallucinations are actually memories trying to get back through the forced amnesia. Possibly he really did go to Jupiter on vacation at some point, before. George wants to gently fry his brains. Janet thinks the 60s did that. I think Ultronians did it.

Okay, I could in no way date someone who kept literally looking inside me. Ew. Way too personal.

Just a little ramble here, but I think Janet and Piers had similar upbringings emotionally even if not financially. She seems more upper middle class while he’s poshy mcposhpants. The difference comes in that while Janet was clearly daddy’s baby girl, Piers had an emotionally distant father he couldn’t please and his mother, whether she was just trying to keep marital peace or was just an Ella-esque perfectionist, clearly preferred Piers’ unnamed brother who was probably also their father’s favorite. Which then makes his always sucking up to Ella get a little tragic in with the skeezy. It’s -in a way- a chance to please his own mother.

That whole exchange between Janet and George about being nervous is nothing short of adorable.

And this bit, about the forks, is just one example of the many ways that Janet, for all she goes on and on about George needing to learn human ways, doesn’t really bother learning about Ultronian ways. Sure, fix the forks because Ella is going to notice and make a snide remark, but it goes way beyond forks.

Also, I think she could have given him a little more of a break with regard to his subtle use of his powers during lunch. It got Ella off her back twice, as far as the soup being hot and the chicken not being done. Apart from accidentally burning Ella’s hand, there wasn’t anything he did to disrupt the idea that he was just an ordinary human. In fact, him supposedly magically knowing how much longer the chicken needed could have been used to suggest to Stanley that George was helping in the kitchen and knew about the time because he’d cooked it.