Cordy didn't have to become Queen C. She wanted it
It's kind of a disturbing superiority thing, because once she has it, she finds out she doesn't like it, but she keeps up with the bullying. It seems like she convinces herself that this is how you show you're better. Not better-liked, not a better politician, but better. And she's smarter than that, but she goes on choosing to believe it anyway.
I have seen VM! And I love the Meg touchstone - to me, she, along with a less-traumatized Logan and Duncan, had a modest "DUDE NOT COOL" impact on the 09'ers. They were still the exclusive cool kids and not, you know, paragons of maturity, but series-era Neptune High kind of feels to me like the second half of Lord of the Flies. It didn't actually have to get to that point, but when it does everything goes downhill fast.
I don't think the Cordettes would have been all daisies and sunshine either, but sheep take their cues from the leader, and I don't see any actual competition for that position.
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Date: 2010-09-28 01:04 am (UTC)It's kind of a disturbing superiority thing, because once she has it, she finds out she doesn't like it, but she keeps up with the bullying. It seems like she convinces herself that this is how you show you're better. Not better-liked, not a better politician, but better. And she's smarter than that, but she goes on choosing to believe it anyway.
I have seen VM! And I love the Meg touchstone - to me, she, along with a less-traumatized Logan and Duncan, had a modest "DUDE NOT COOL" impact on the 09'ers. They were still the exclusive cool kids and not, you know, paragons of maturity, but series-era Neptune High kind of feels to me like the second half of Lord of the Flies. It didn't actually have to get to that point, but when it does everything goes downhill fast.
I don't think the Cordettes would have been all daisies and sunshine either, but sheep take their cues from the leader, and I don't see any actual competition for that position.