Squilookle said:
Not at all. They're sisters. Or even the same person, just with a weekend/weekday split
VB Magical girl sounds more fun to be around, however.
Can I relegate my viewing time to simply those moments? I imagine a lengthy, over the top transformation scene that results in copious amounts of Berocca and day-long pajama wearing after 10 hours of defeating the evils of sobriety and boredom. Assuming they're a happy drunk-type at least ... pretty much the only fun type of drunk.
Some people shouldn't drink. Or maybe if VB magical girl is the angry drunk type, maybe they're an evil twin separated at birth? But then it becomes moralistic trash and Australians aren't the puritanical types to begin with.
On U.S. tv heroes drinking in a pub are painted as depressed and liquor equals an escape, on Australian tv it's about heightening the entertainment. Of course the culture of drinking we have inevitably takes that as an excuse and it becomes an excess of bad life choices and ridiculous numbers of ER patients.
Maybe we might have a complex and nuanced VB magical girl that tells a story of how successful Research Girl has a darkside of VB girl that results from latent depression and alcoholism that is hidden from her colleague, Lab Coat Boy and Cleanroom Robot?