Talk:White Lines/@comment-46155717-20200622093347

This is probably nothing, but why is Mike Collins', Zoe's husband, why is his last name Collins?

Mike isn't Axel and Zoe's brother and Clint isnt' his dad. So why then is his name Collins? Did he change his name when he married Zoe and Zoe changed hers to Walker-- a name her husband isn't using anymore? Seems a little unlikely. Perhaps, Zoe's dad, who she calls in episode 2, is her father-in law, Mike's father? But if Mike's dad is Clint Collins and Zoe married Mike, then how is Axel, Axel Collins, if she and Axel are siblings? Two Collins' clans? M'kay.

Axel Collins, Zoe Collins, Clint Collins, Mike Collins. Makes no sense.

Now I see here Clint is Clint Walker. I'm willing to try that out: If Clint is Axel and Zoe's father, then they are Walkers, too, so Mike would be Mike Collins, Zoe kept her maiden name, but Axel's name is completely wrong. Since that makes no sense, Clint must then be Mike's father, Clint is not Zoe's, Collins would be her maiden name and her brother, Axel, would still be Axel Collins. Then why the hell is Mike's last name still Collins?! Bloody hell.

How can the possible typo of one name lead to so much confusion? Maybe, my patriarchal centricism isn't allowing me to accept any explanation; if one's convinced "Mike Collins" is not a typo, Mike Walker changed his name to Mike Collins and Zoe Collins switched hers to Zoe Walker, yet "Clint Walker" still makes absolutely no sense and you're mind begins to melt again.

Don't know if my insistence on traditional customs is the problem here or if my supposing this is a typo is just justifying that comfortable and familiar bias. Would be nice to be able to tell which it were.

I'm reminded of something said in Game of Thrones when it was still fun, before we knew how things would turn out: 'I'm not whinging." "You're lips are moving and you're complaining about something. You're whinging."

Though it seems the new pastime, irrationality still needs to be called out-- both when it's done to us and when we do it to others. Think whinging's a separate thing from whatever it is we' do to each now, as well as the mindnumbing irrationality of this Mike "kill me now" Collins faux pas, plus it was fun trying to find a coherent way to plot its convolutions.

TL;DR: "Mike Collins" doesn't work if Clint is a Walker and it also doesn't work if Clint's a Collins. The world doesn't make sense anymore and it feels like rational life's being flushed down the toilet.

Darren's the name for a male Karen, right?

Went long. Apologies. Thanks for reading. Respond, please; it's fun. Maybe, next time we can talk about Rey Skywalker's lineage and how that's valid. Cheers.