Except talking *did* work, when they finally got to it.
It's pretty obvious that blasting Tea accomplished absolutely nothing; it didn't take her long after she woke up to get back to the exact same way of thinking, except at a somehwat higher emotional pitch. (I'd guess if that ~attack hadn't happened, she would have ended up not saying much but overworking herself even more until she collapsed in the middle of a practice. Unless Shamal noticed or Subaru realized things were getting out of hand. Both of which are probably likely.)
(I really don't get this idea of talking not working. For some people, talking not only works, it's the more effective option. (People like, say, me. >.> ))
What it seems like may have been the root problem is that Tea didn't really understand what the training she was doing was supposed to accomplish. She couldn't get any idea by comparing herself to other members of the "class", because everyone's practicing entirely different things. She probably didn't even realize how much she really was improving. In such a case, trying something else doesn't seem like an unreasonable choice of action.
And, as I've said before, I think it all could have been avoided if Nanoha had explained the stuff she did at the end of episode 9 sometime during episode 7. *shrug* I really like Nanoha, so it's disappointing to see her mess something up like this...
-Morgan. Oh, and something else I don't have time to figure out tonight. '.'
"Watermelons are not immune to gravity."
It's pretty obvious that blasting Tea accomplished absolutely nothing; it didn't take her long after she woke up to get back to the exact same way of thinking, except at a somehwat higher emotional pitch. (I'd guess if that ~attack hadn't happened, she would have ended up not saying much but overworking herself even more until she collapsed in the middle of a practice. Unless Shamal noticed or Subaru realized things were getting out of hand. Both of which are probably likely.)
(I really don't get this idea of talking not working. For some people, talking not only works, it's the more effective option. (People like, say, me. >.> ))
What it seems like may have been the root problem is that Tea didn't really understand what the training she was doing was supposed to accomplish. She couldn't get any idea by comparing herself to other members of the "class", because everyone's practicing entirely different things. She probably didn't even realize how much she really was improving. In such a case, trying something else doesn't seem like an unreasonable choice of action.
And, as I've said before, I think it all could have been avoided if Nanoha had explained the stuff she did at the end of episode 9 sometime during episode 7. *shrug* I really like Nanoha, so it's disappointing to see her mess something up like this...
-Morgan. Oh, and something else I don't have time to figure out tonight. '.'
"Watermelons are not immune to gravity."