FlyingFish wrote:Lisa, in the final months of P&A, and throughout QUILTBAG, has run out of luck, and her impulsive non-strategy starts to hurt both herself and people around her. Dating Stan burns bridges with Penny, and eventually leaves herself heartbroken as well. And her fling with Chrissie was a total disaster for both of them.
When you're counting on luck to succeed, what you are doing is NOT the right call, even if the luck comes through this time. So no, I don't think what Lisa did at the party was right, even if it happened to work out for the best that time.
Even her relationship with Stan may not necessarily have been exactly a problem - I don't think Penny would have
approved, sure, but it is in within the realm of possibility (if awkward) to have a significant other (fuckbuddy, whatever) your friends don't like. The campaign to ease him back into her friends' good graces via dishonesty and manipulation (which lasted around two months) probably sealed the deal, though.
The strangest thing about that plan is perhaps that she grew angry with her friends when it didn't work immediately after indirectly admitting she'd misread Stan, who, whether or not you think he deserved some sort of compensation for loaning out an expensive piece of equipment, rarely does much without first considering how it benefits Stan (whereas a dose of altruism was somewhat necessary for the plan to even start to work).
So ultimately I think I'd say that an additional problem with a lot of Lisa's actions and strategies is that she doesn't seem to have a great deal of respect for others, including close friends.