Monday 01-18-2016

I’m still shaking my head at the fact that the writers had Lulu – a sweet, kindhearted, quiet little girl (now young woman) – scheming with Johnnie to ‘get rid’ of Valerie.  But here comes Lulu, bringing Johnnie’s stuff to him, and she sees the barn on fire; thinking Johnnie is in there, she rushes to help.  Standing right in the open doorway, she looks at Valerie, tied to the chair (and fire, in areas, scattered around the room… which is totally unreal, because it started from a single spot – where she knocked the candle off the table, right next to her); nonetheless, Lulu calls out to Valerie, as if that is going to do any good.  No response.  Valerie has passed out from smoke inhalation. 

For some reason, Lulu just continues to stand there, telling Valerie to wake up!  Ok, stupid.  Then she decides to go in… darting (not really), she kicks aside a pile of something on fire, throws a blanket she finds over Valerie’s head and starts to untie her legs from the chair.  Why she doesn’t just grab the back of the chair and drag it out of there Valerie and all, I don’t know; instead, she gets her untied, tells her again to wake up, then slaps her across the face!  When that doesn’t work, she pulls her out of the chair, onto the floor – next to piles of burning rubble – and starts CHEST COMPRESSIONS!  Are you kidding me?  Pushing on her chest and telling her to breathe… OMG.  Days made the same mistake not too long ago; that’s why I started my blog for them.

Chest compressions are for restarting the heart once it has quit beating; don’t we all know this?  You give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation when someone isn’t breathing!  This is unbelievable… she is telling Valerie, “I can’t drag you out by myself,” but why not?  They are not far from the same size; Valerie is only slightly taller.  Oh, and there… all of the sudden, Valerie just wakes up. That’s amazing.  They make it out to safety.