The Guitar Incident

[AB]

What did you think of Lynette leaving Tom's guitar on the garage floor so that he would run over it? And then making it look like the little girl did it. I couldn't believe she would do that.

[KLS]

I didn't like that she set Penny up. It was a cowardly way to confront their problem and a parent should never use a kid like that. Funny thing is Lynette could have left the guitar where it was when Penny ran through the garage and knocked it over and there would have been a good chance Tom would have ran it over and it really could have been Penny's fault. The end result for Penny wasn't really a big deal. She got a verbal chewing out from Tom (that she would have recieved anyway if it had been Tom in the garage rather than Lynette when she ran by and knocked over his guitar). Not that it makes it right on Lynette's part to have done that.

[AB]

^ Right, you could almost see the lightbulb go on over her head when she decided to pull that stunt. She wants to be able to boss Tom around & when he doesn't go along, she resorts to whatever means available to get her way.

[MusicJunkie]

Lynette seemed more like Susan in that storyline

[AB]

^ It's kind of like they switched personalities.

[KLS]

^ Right, you could almost see the lightbulb go on over her head when she decided to pull that stunt. She wants to be able to boss Tom around & when he doesn't go along, she resorts to whatever means available to get her way.

With all due respect I just can't buy that completely. Not when Tom's in the band (like he wanted to be). Lynette didn't get her way. Lynette may fight for her way, but in the end she tends to give it up. Lynette is supposedly so obsessed with always having to have her way and willing to play dirty to get it, but thing is I can't think of a character on the show who gets his or her way less often than Lynette does or more likely to say she's wrong or just let the other person win even when she deserves her way just as much. Maybe she fights more because others don't have as strong a need to fight (they get their ways fairly consistantly).

She's boss in that she makes the final decision and has the last word, but when you look at what the last word is it's almost always telling Tom something to the effect of "You're right, We'll do it your way." If he has to check his equipment I've never seen that work out so well for anyone.