re: Most controversial movie of all time just started on VH-1

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This is the only outcome that makes narrative sense.

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No - it doesn't really make any narrative sense. She faced her sister and could have made her the hero on the mound. She could have kept her mouth shut about the "high ones" - she could have tanked the throw and avoided the collision altogether.

The problem you "dropped it on purpose" people are having is that you're missing that the sports story is, ultimately, Kit's story. It is a Cinderella story - she only got on the train because of Dottie. Dottie was already a local superstar - the fact that she got the limelight in a little bigger market (Girl's baseball?) was only a little change.

Kit went from supporting role (even on the Peaches) to superstar leader of her team. She continually improved throughout the show.

Dottie and Jimmie were the human stories - Dottie of realizing family was more important than baseball and Jimmy of second chances and committing to something.

But the sports story was, essentially, Kit's story. The narrative makes complete sense that she wins the game, fair and square, against her older sister.

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This is the only outcome that makes narrative sense.

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This.

She dropped it on purpose in order to pass off her title to her younger sister.

Her sister wasn't even that good. She was living off her coattails.