Is Connie Prince important? Like as in metaphors, mirrors or anything like that? Because I’ve never seen a meta about her, but it seems strange that such a minor character like that has a blog for herself and titled “beauty queen of hearts”
Connie Prince sure does have a tie-in blog! And honestly I'd completely forgotten about until I was rewatching TGG a few days ago and had an epiphany, so you really could not have chosen a more perfect moment to send this ask.
They use Connie's blog to establish its unreliability. Specifically, to establish unreliability using Connie's age.
When Connie Prince's death is first reported on TV, the marquee gives her age as 48. But a moment later, Lestrade walks into the morgue and reads from the police report that Connie Prince was 54. On Connie's blog, her bio gives her own age as 36, and on the message board, we can see that Molly seems to have been under the impression that Connie was 32(!! Molly, honey). Thus from the outset, we have reason to question the information on Connie's blog and the reliability of the message board (and also the info on TV!).
oooh, yes! i think connie and kenny might have been included in one of @sagestreet 's metas, maybe the one about pairs of people representing john's bisexuality, but i'm not sure.
the dynamic of the facade and unreliable info, failing to pursue enough evidence, and probably getting it wrong, wow. that has implications both for us as puzzle solvers, and for the show. cos i can't even count how many times the show passes something off in a confident tone and only later, maybe years later, someone in fandom says, hey wait a minute, that's BS, why would he say that? and then we realize it's another one of those snags, a handle to pull on and see what subtext is underneath.
other random thought... if someone was from samara, would they be a samaritan? asking because there's a meeting in samara later.
