Episode 102 Morals

In plain English, these are the morals from Episode 102:

Will Trisha's brilliant career move delight Grace?

First let's start with Trisha. Did I hear correctly that she's already enrolled in school in a degree program? Is no application required? And what's this from Meg about days becoming weeks and weeks months. Hasn't Ryan been moved back into his wife's for about 3 days? Ok, maybe a week. Whatever the case, I think this timeline is so accelerated it's getting hard to believe. How short a time did Trisha expect this to be? Mere hours? I personally think Phillip's recovery was amazingly fast and I can't see her begrudging it. If they want to make a point of the fact that she's just impatient, I think that's fine, but they should involve someone to have a conversation with her about how she's jumping the gun, not to tell her about how she should be moving faster to give up.

And then there's Grace. Many things on Y&R seem to be better these days, but this is a long-standing gripe I've had with the show: it portrays business in a way that's really quite unrealistic and I really think is downright insulting to people who slave long and hard for what they get.

Grace has no serious formal training. She's never been to college. She used to flip burgers in Madison, so we found out this week. Such a person doesn't get hired, mostly. Such a person doesn't have the skills to contribute enough without enormous outside study, which Grace has never been seen doing.
People don't get new job titles just for completing a task. Typically one works 2-3 years and then hopes for a new title.
People don't get rewarded for fixing their own errors. Nick is constantly lauding Grace for her diligence in their projects, yet in all instances we've seen, the scenario is this:
1. Grace and Nick make a mistake.
2. Grace and Nick work hard to find their mistake.
3. Grace and Nick pat themselves on back for their victory.
In the business world I know, people are expected not to make the kinds of errors Nick and Grace seem to routinely make. They don't get to first make them and then reward themselves handsomely for fixing them.

Will Jill be moved by Katherine's bright idea?

Largely I really enjoyed the Katherine/Jill stuff this week, although I had to marvel at Katherine's lack of smarts in realizing and dealing effectively with what Jill was after. If Katherine is half the savvy business woman we think she is, she would have figured out Jill's plans immediately and been much tighter with attic access. And it might have been fun to watch Jill have to work harder to get into the attic. Anyway, I decided I would just generally play some games with all that in order to, shall we say, ``hilight'' the situation. And I guess I just had fire on the brain today, though. After all, it was the Fourth of July.

I've also been really wondering a lot of late why we never see or hear about little Kate, and I figured the arson was a perfect way to get rid of someone the writers seem to think is a "messy detail".

Will Victor's wallet be suddenly lighter?

I don't know what caused The Price is Right to come into my mind for this--maybe I was just watching it and it struck me. But it seemed to theme perfectly with Victor and I decided Victor's whole attitude was so extreme that only a fantasy sequence was going to give me the leeway to deal with the ridiculousness of the situation in the manner it so ``richly'' deserves.

Will Phillip light a fire under his parents about staying together?

This didn't take any imagination to come up with. Little Phillip is so obviously possessed by the devil that I keep waiting for him to exhibit psychokinetic powers on the real show!

That's all for Episode 102's morals. Don't miss Episode 103 and its morals!
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