User blog:Gumball2/Lynn and Competition

After seeing tonight's episode "Lynn-er Takes All", I believe we now understand Lynn enough to put some of her past behavior in perspective.

In the second act, we see Lynn suffer her first personal loss (not a team loss or one where she had the luxury of scapegoating). For the first time, Lynn is confronted with the fact that she lost because of HER strategy. She has to accept responsibility for losing her own game.

Rather than accuse the others of cheating, she appears solemn at first, as she struggles to accept this fact. The following day, however, we see her ramp up her competitive nature, turning even every day activities into games where one's skills are judged to determine a single winner at the cost of someone else being a loser.

While some may find this segment annoying, I think it's a character building moment for Lynn. It's clear that she's overcompensating to make up for a loss that she feels means everything; that one loss redefined as an inferior person with inferior abilities and inferior worth. She needs to win in order to break this stigma and prove to the "naysayers" that she isn't that image of a loser. In short, Lynn is insecure about her abilities that can be applied to competition.

To keep this blog short and open for discussion, I will restrict my application of this to one other episode. "No Such Luck". In that episode, Lynn refused to take responsibility for her loss at the baseball game. She was afraid of being seen as an inferior person, one that lacks self-worth. By deflecting responsibility to someone else (Lincoln), she was able to come to terms with the loss and still view herself as a worthy person because she can go to sleep thinking that the loss was outside her control. She may not think consciously of this, however her belief in superstition could have this insecurity underpinned.

For me, this is something that interests me and I wonder if it will be expanded upon in future episodes.

But what do you think? Am I just overanalyzing the show? Let me know what you feel below.