User blog comment:Justsomeordinarydude/Narrative Conflict, Mob Mentality and the Importance of Writing./@comment-31789809-20171223031329/@comment-27245645-20171224031207

I might be able to concede to Lisa falling for it because she's four (she has shown some 4 year old moments) if it weren't for the fact that she spent the entirety of Raw Deal refuting the concept of prophecy and luck and had to be exposed to 10 straight predictions coming true before finally relenting that Lucy might have been right, and even still it turns out Lucy was wrong and thus Lisa went back to not believing in such nonsense. This is also the same child who didn't believe in Santa Clause until she came across what she believes as hard proof. It's still a childish belief, but it shows that she isn't willing to believe anything unless some sort of logical fact or hard data is present to back it up (you know, like a scientist). Her falling for the bad luck thing in NSL after watching a single instance of Lincoln's perceived "bad luck" goes against what she has been previously shown to stand for. Obviously this is just bad writing, but the most logical in-universe answer for her going along with the bad luck Lincoln hoax is that once she sees that Lori has started believing it (making her the only one left) she figured she might as well go along with it as well so she could just ignore the situation and get back to her studies rather than defending Lincoln. Again though, it's just bad writing.

Yes, Lynn and Lana are still girls. Yes, girls are more likely to care about make up and makeovers. However, this doesn't mean that all girls do care about that stuff, and I find it highly unlikely Lynn and especially Lana do in the slightest. In fact, Ordinarydude got all the evidence for me. Lana, lover of mud and all things gross, didn't know what a dress was before TaT and Lynn detests doing anything remotely similar to makeovers. I highly doubt they went along with the other 7 because they wanted to give her a makeover. I believe they just went along with the mob because "hey, the others are doing it so why shouldn't we?"

So no, I cannot conceivably see Lisa, Lynn, or Lana acting in such ways unless they were going along with mob mentality because it goes against evidence in other episodes that proves the contrary.

Regarding your second paragraph, I could conceed that point if it wasn't for the fact that the sisters are so fundamentally different than each other in some instances. I can think of so many pairings of siblings that probably wouldn't agree with each other in the majority of circumstances. Leni and Lynn, Lola and Lana, Luan and Lucy, Lucy and Lisa, Leni and Lisa, and so on and so forth. Thus, I find it unlikely that in the majority of 10v1 episodes they would agree unanimously with each other. It is not impossible, as I have stated, but the odds of that happening are not only realistically unlikely, but statistically unlikely as well.

Let's say that there's a 90% chance of one sibling agreeing with another on any random issue, fundamental differences between them asside. Yes, I acknowledge it's a very, very simple figure that ignores context but humor me. In a 10v1 situation, the chances of one sibling agreeing with the other 9 is equal to 0.9 to the 9th power, which is equal to a 38.74% chance of one sibling agreeing with the other 9. Let's be more generous and say it's a 95% chance. That results in a 63.02% chance of full agreement. More likely than not, yes, but nowhere near high enough for the consistency of the show. This figure does not reach over 90% until there is a 99% chance of a sibling agreeing with another, and doesn't reach over 80% until over a 97.5% chance of singular agreement. And that's not even factoring in all 10 siblings agreeing with each other, just the one agreeing with the rest of the group, so in reality the chances are even lower still. Believe this overly-simplified statistic or don't, just remember it is here.

Finally, I am not speaking of free for all episodes like The Sweet Spot or It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House. Those exist as seperate entities from 10v1s, which while not that common in the grand scheme of the show, do contribute a significant portion of episodes. And you are insuating that in a 10v1 the 10 must unanimously agree with each other, otherwise it is a free for all, when that is very unrealistic. I could conceed your points if we were dealing with a group of 3, 4, even 5 or 6 characters, but we aren't. We're dealing with 11. Each of those 11 is a different age barring the twins, and each of them has a unique and distinct personality barring nobody. It is frankly ridiculous to assume that even in the majority of cases where 10 of them gang up on 1, they all unanimously believe and agree that the 1 is at fault instead of at least a few or even only one of those 10 going along with the crowd.

Believe what you want about mob mentality in this show, I'm not going to tell you how to interpret any piece of art, but I'm just saying that your belief is very flawed.