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I know she schemed with Steve to be the evil step-daughter who Mel would not want to live with and her agenda was clear.
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Well, I would not exactly call it a scheming. Steve gave her a quick advice and she followed it through... literally :lol: It is not like they set up some elaborate plan and intrigue.
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But I think that Kelly got a wake-up call from her own behavior as much as David did. Sometimes, tact goes a long way.
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Of course. That was the point, I guess.
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She thought she was more mature than a "geek" like David, and tried to be clever at that dinner table.
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I am not sure how much maturity we can count on when we talk about 16-17 year-old teens :shrug: I don't think her goal there was to be mature. On the contrary, she probably wanted to look as immature as possible to chase Mel away. After all, she was just a teen who wanted her elusive mother for herself. I don't think maturity matters in that. It reminded me of Perfect Mom scene when Jackie said they were best friends, and she said she needed a mother, not a friend.
But she did consider herself superior to David, that's for sure.
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But all she ended up doing was bringing them closer together as a found family, so I guess fate has its funny ways of making things work out
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Well, that point was too early to call them a family. I guess it would not have been an interesting SL had the things run smoothly also. But I did like how she was there for Jackie during all the turmoils with Mel.
Somehow I never really got to see all 5 of them as a family. Maybe because the marriage was so short-lived. And later when Jackie and Mel reconciled, Kelly and David were already adults (young, but adults) and it did not seem significant somehow, IDK.
I liked David's reaction at that dinner table. Embarrassment was proper, and he got positive points. Not as a victim, but as someone who was able to take the blame, and then empathy too because the scene was too much. He did not get angry and defensive. Steve would have got all self-righteous and probably called her a **** in front of their parents, for example. David was nice and embarrassed, and he apologized.
And he was super cute and empathetic at the end of the episode too.