Because the instruction comes from an inanimate object, but also because she avoids messy human interaction at all costs, Jaye pays up, whereupon the customer’s purse is stolen as soon as she steps out the door. A pompous and malformed wax lion (voiced by Scotch Ellis Loring) pushes her into action, when it insists that she refuse to refund an unpleasant customer’s money. Soon after, Jaye receives her first directive. Jaye chucks the quarter over her shoulder, it bounces off the statue, knocks her in the head, and finally plops into the water, where it glows mysteriously. Jaye, likewise, must learn to “go with the flow” and accept her destiny when it comes calling.įate intervenes when Jaye experiences a mini death-and-rebirth: she chokes and falls gasping to her knees, managing to dislodge the bite of sandwich from her throat just as a stranger drops a quarter. The princess’ story sets up the show’s theme: sacrificed to save her people and “surrendered to destiny,” she went willingly over a waterfall in a canoe. She fumes over her pb-and-j next to a fountain statue of a Native American princess whose spirit (according to local legend) protects Niagara Falls. Jaye unwillingly begins to examine her life when she is passed over for a promotion, her new boss a teenage “mouth breather” (Neil Grayston). I can be dissatisfied without hardly working at all.” As she tells a friend about her family, “They all work really hard and are dissatisfied.
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She’s also the unlikeliest of tv heroines, cranky and decidedly unplucky. Clearly she’s disturbed,” says her brother Aaron (Lee Pace). As a bonus, her lackluster career and personal life aggravates her well-to-do family: “She lives in a trailer park. A dedicated underachiever, Jaye has created a situation in which she is wholly unchallenged. Appropriately, she works in a Niagara Falls gift shop, whiling away the hours staring into space or scowling at customers. Instead, tacky souvenir shop animal figures talk to her, sending her on tiny journeys into the emotional lives of strangers and family members.Īt 24 years old, Jaye is a tourist in her own life, judging without participating or accepting responsibility. In Wonderfalls, she doesn’t chat with dead people or receive messages from God, she’s not saddled with an ancient prophecy. Of all the supernatural gifts bestowed on small screen heroines, the one granted to Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas) is both the strangest and the most mundane.
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