I am COMPLETELY unmoved by the attraction between Jeff and Erica.
For one thing, it's COMPLETELY out of character for Jeff, who saw
her for what she was way back in the 1970s. Mind you, we all grow
up and sometimes look back at our own past behavior and roll our
eyes in perplexity at some of the choices we've made, but Erica
hasn't changed much from the way she was when they were married.
She's still EXTREMELY selfish and demands attention 24/7. To her
credit, she's not nearly as much of a busybody and shit-disturber as
she was when she was in her teens and twenties (I know that's hard
to believe for someone who has only seen her over the last few
years, but it's true), and she is certainly more polished than she
was then, but her life is STILL full of constant drama. The only
real difference now is that she has children. She's very protective
of them (except for protecting them from HER), and most of her
busybodying has to do with THEM. Why on earth would Jeff want to
draw that constant drama back into his life again at this point? Is
she really SO alluring that he just HAS to have her, husband be
damned? Apparently so -- he says that she's a close to perfection
that a woman can GET. He doesn't get around much, does he?
And why is Erica interested in JEFF? Yeah, he's her first husband
and the father of her aborted baby, but what does THAT have to do
with anything? He was dull then and he's WAAAAY duller NOW.
Dixie has some nerve lambasting Babe for cheating on JAR,
considering Dixie's OWN track record in that department. She weeps
and wails over the fact that she told JAR that Babe was the best
thing that could ever happen to him and now Babe has made her into a
LIAR to her OWN SON! Huh? a) She was ALREADY a liar to her own
son, many times over, and b) how does Babe letting everyone down
AFTER Dixie said that make DIXIE a liar? Way to make if all about
YOU, Dixie.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but, IMO, Babe's cheating on JAR
pales in comparison to him trying to MURDER HER mere months before.
Their relationship has been doomed (repeatedly) from the moment they
met because neither one of them has ANY morals or scruples, despite
their rare and exceptionally-short-lived lapses into domestic bliss.
The depths of deceit and mayhem directed toward (or directly
affecting) each other that these two slimeballs sink to ON A REGULAR
BASIS is a pretty good indication of how totally twisted they are
not only toward each other, but as individuals.
Robin "that waiting room is cesspool of hypocrisy!" Coutellier