Desperate Housewives - Lynette & Tom

[DisneyFan32WI]

Killing off Mike just didn't seem to make any sense. Such a shame.

 

[Wishing on a star]

I wish TOM had been the one to somehow have been killed off.

Lynette should have written him off a LONG time ago, and found a real, mature, person...

Tom and the kids have been her prison, year, after year.

I think it should end with her breaking free!!!!!
Maybe finding a real man who can love her.

 

[shenbrat]

Yes, Lynette is dominating, controlling ,etc. But Tom is weak. He LIKED letting Lynette be the "enforcer" in the marriage/to the kids, so he could be the "nice guy." Too often, Lynette was forced to be the big, bad adult because Tom just wouldn't grow a backbone and man up. They were perfectly matched, IMHO.

I completely agree. He also benefited in her being controlling or take charge in that she had his back if he wanted to go after his dreams or chase a flight of fancy. She was strong enough to have his back and run the show. She could catch him if he failed. Seems to me the benefits of Lynette's personality are ignored. She stood beside him on his journey to get where he wanted. Now he's there and she's expendable and her traits that helped him before and she was called his rock for having are unacceptable. And to top it off he was literally discovered in a job that was hers for the taking back and it could have just as easily been her where he is now.

 

[princessmelinda]

Ugh Jane is one of those characters you love to hate. Especially when she was choking and Lynette was like ........... I wouldn't have hated for Lynette to not intervene! Lynette and Tom are so good together when they're not fighting. I think Tom is finally realize it soon, at least I hope so!

Can't wait for this Sunday!!

 

[shenbrat]

Lynette's awful. For all Tom's flaws, he deserves better than her. I hope she ends up alone.

With all due respect, I have a very hard time pitying Tom Lynette's flaws. He milks them to justify why he deserves his way almost all the time and I can't see how he has it so bad. I've never seen anyone who was supposedly so bullyied by a controlling shrew of a wife get his way so often or never seen a control freak cave into her supposedly poor bullied husband whims so often.

 

[Wishing on a star]

Yep, I am having a really, really, hard time seeing the Lynette is a witch argument....

When one has a clueless, spineless, self-centered, immature, 'peter pan' as a husband, and several kids and a household to manage... Yep, that puts one in Lynette's position. That has been clear to me since the very, very, first episode where Tom comes in from 'playing'... and Lynette hands him the latest baby and takes off saying "Sorry, but I haven't even had a chance to pee all day!!!!!" Remember, Lynette, at home, managing EVERYTHING, 24/7, while she finds cellphone snapshots of a half-drunk Tom, holding a huge margarita, and wearing a Sombrero at a Mexican Cantina while on a 'business trip'... She notes that Tom never takes her out to have a great time like that..... Really, do you all not get the true picture??? Since when has Lynette been that much of a witch, like to the other women????

Tom's character, and Lynette's situation, have been clearly written and layed out, and never deviated from since episode one. Every time Lynette has to forget and forgive, yet again... I am like

I can not remember any one scene where Tom ever really did anything for Lynette... actually FOR Lynette... At all... Ever... He has never supported her the way the other men have backed up their wives.

I am remembering when Lynette was battling cancer, and of course was very ill, lost her hair, etc... That episode was all about poor Tom. Lynette had to put on a funky wig, make-up, lingerie... etc... so poor, deprived, Tom could have a good time that night.

If there is going to be a dramatic ending, I wish Tom would end up dead, or alone in some hotel room without either woman, or whatever, after everything he has put Lynette thru... and she rides of into the sunset with a REAL man.

 

[shenbrat]

I could handle Lynette forgiving and forgetting if Tom would do the same for her when she makes mistakes. But he tend to hold them against her.

I find it very hard to stomach her always being pegged as the bad guy and taking complete responsibility of everything that goes wrong. I'm tired of her always having to be the one to pay a penance when his faults and mistakes get swept under the carpet. I guess part of her being a control freak is she is super easy to guilt. The buck stops with her, but there is taking advantage of that. It's taken to a level where Tom plays the victim so much for Lynette to make up for how awful she supposedly treats him that she OVERPAYS any legitimate wrong doings. It goes beyond making something up to him, it turns out most the time he gets the better end of the deal because of it.

 

[Wishing on a star]

Ohhhhh, a few more story lines come to mind....

Remember Tom and his 'bad back'...
Remember Tom and his pot....
Remember Tom when he was supposed to be the SAHD while Lynette worked a good professional job to support the family... And the house got SO nasty that she had to resort to dramatic measures.

On and on and on it goes....