>>78000752>>78000727It seems we are getting the point of subjectivity here, but whatever.
In first views I really liked this episode just because I felt well supporting Lisa. Why am I saying this? Well, it's obvious that, because of the fact that I've always been biased towards it, what some of you find as annoying and obnoxious in her attitude doesn't bother me and I can easily find a justification and even be able to relate to it.
However, the episodes you bring up like Life On The Fast Lane and Colonel Homer are very unlike Lisa The Skeptic in that they're mostly 100% grounded in realism. The behavior of the mob is exaggerated, I admit it, but not really more than the typical "Springfield as a town" idea from the classic era, which has provided episodes like Marge vs the Monorail or Bart After Dark. To sum it up, I'd say there is a kind of cartoony feeling in the characterization of the mob that I like. Would it be better if they tried a more realistic development of them as a pressure group with at least some differing nuances? I dunno, but it's not that this way bothered me.
On the other hand, Lisa was taking the mob seriously because she was directly related to it (because of close relationship, plot devices). Is it odd to blend the wacky and hyperbolized reaction of a mob with the importance given to their acts by Lisa? Probably, and I understand your point. Why I don't despise it while you do is maybe too much subjective for discussion. I guess that, raising the episode as a "what if" (even if the situation seems grotesque, I appreciate it because it allows IMO to make an accurate portrayal of Lisa facing it), I can forgive the touches of unrealistic behavior way more, and in fact when analyze the episode I'm never even giving the mob the category of character, but a juncture that Lisa finds and has to deal with.
