Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for August 27, 2010
August 26, 2010
August 28, 2010
Transcript:
Baldo: Dad, can I ask you a question? Dad: Digame. Baldo: There's a girl at work and I was thinking of asking her out, but she has a boyfriend. Dad: Ahh... the boyfriend problem. Dad: Your mother was dating when I met her... and she got over it. Baldo: She got over her boyfriend? Dad: She got over the black eye I had for five days.
As I recall, she went from being a tomboy to a girly-girl pretty much overnight. She also stopped responding to “Smiley” and started going by her given name (which I can’t recall).
The explanation was that she “matured”, and “outgrew” Baldo, but it seemed rather cold and abrupt to me. Also, since she was Anglo, when she stopped associating with Baldo it appeared that she was also disassociating from inter-cultural friendships. (I doubt that was the intention, but that’s how it read to me.) Even if Hector and Carlos thought her character was a dead-end, I felt she deserved better…