Empress Theresa: Chapter Ten Analysis · 6:01pm Apr 19th, 2023
Okay. Vacation time’s over, people. And all Theresa can say about it is that France and Ireland should have been nicer to her. Now she’s ready to get back to the grueling grind of trying to move coins with her mind. She describes it as the most boring and frustrating thing that she had ever done. (I promise you that reading about it is even worse). She’s most frustrated by her lack of any kind of progress, which might not have happened if she didn’t take so much time off to go visit countries that she just ended up snubbing anyway.
Just when she’s feeling like it’s not worth the effort, HAL manifests itself physically before her by crudely mimicking Theresa’s shape as a dark silhouette. Theresa narrates that HAL didn’t do a good job, but her description sounds an awful lot like that zombified bozo on the front cover of the book. The doppelganger jumps into Theresa, and she suddenly sees the world from above in a black and white monochrome. She realizes that she can turn this on and off by covering her eyes with her hands, and then finds that she can manipulate the image of Earth to watch anyone anywhere in the world at any time. That’s right. She now has godly omniscience. Lord knows what this pervert will do with such a power.
She tells Steve, who has her try aiming at things with her eyes closed. We then find that Theresa no longer has need for the orange aiming reticle in her vision, because there has never been a situation where she would have needed it before in this story. The only reason for her to have it would be to help make her more special. In fact, Theresa hitting a target without looking is so special that Steve has to write to Blair about it. Blair is happy to know this, and seems to understand the trips to other countries to mean that Theresa is interested in things besides herself. Her conduct in these countries proves otherwise. This is clearly the author’s attempt to deflect criticism about Theresa as a character.
Theresa has a plan now. How he came up with this plan, nobody but Boutin knows. She plans to make a kind of big six wheel with a bunch of what she calls ‘tags’ on it so that she can train HAL to respond to a command based on what each tag indicates. This plan only makes sense to the author. There is no explanation given about how any of this is supposed to help, other than an overly long description of the construction of this bargain bin Wheel of Fortune.
Oh yeah. Remember those chipmunks from before? It turns out that Theresa has channeled her inner Disney Princess and has charmed these invasive rodents to be her best buddies. She even calls them her ‘chipmunk poos.’ Frankly, a chipmunk poo doesn’t seem that endearing to me. Or to anyone normal, for that matter.
Seven weeks have gone by since Theresa began training with HAL. I’d be worried at this point if I was the general public. Especially since two additional weeks are spent building four more versions of Theresa’s little carnival wheel. But wait! Theresa thinks that she can use a combination of her wheels and her Alan Parsons ‘Eye in the Sky’ power in tandem to make HAL do things around the world. July’s upon them, and farmers aren’t able to grow more crops. People need rain, and it’s on Theresa to pull it off. Can she do it? Or will she just take another vacation? Find out next chapter.
I also hear the author is a real A-hole who has attacked anyone who even remotely criticized his book to the point where forums had to be lock because he had reached the limit of posts.
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That's correct. Did you know that the limit for the number of comments on Amazon is ten thousand? I wouldn't have known that if Boutin hadn't peristed in defending his crappy book for over a year! That's right. He spent a whole year on the Amazon comment section for his book, just to defend it from rightful criticism.
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Does he still? Most of my info about it and the book has been around 2014-2016. I haven't heard anything about him after that.
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I'm not sure. I haven't investigated, but it might be worth a look.