I saw the mean bits in the pilot as her trying for attention as much as anything else. The Johnny thing is interesting though, because when I watched the scene (it's up on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5-5r56d_D4)) and I saw it as more abuse from her mother than anything else. She spends the first half of the scene trying to stop her from beating him up, and then runs away in tears when she gets the stairs thing thrown in her face. Plus, this supposedly happened when Johnny was nine, which would make her about a year old at the time. Either they meant for her to be a toddler who didn't know what she was doing (and what kind of toddler can push a nine-year-old hard enough to make them fall over?) or someone on the writing staff fudged their arithmetic. ;) But that's what I find so fascinating about her- there's so many tropes that you think she fits in (mean girl, femme fatale, love interest) but she subverts and deconstructs them as much as she fits them.

I find her connection with Laura really fascinating- apparently it was going to be explored more in the second season, but it got shelved for some reason, and we got Ben's descent into Confederate madness instead. Ugh. I do have a half-finished fic about her feelings wrt Laura sitting on my desktop- she's a really complex character to write, but it's a lot of fun to try and figure out what makes her tick.

I rarely get to discuss "Twin Peaks" with people, and so am always happy to do so, especially when it's about Audrey. <3

I know the feeling- I just got into the show a few weeks ago, and I've been running around trying to find fanfic/meta/communities ever since. Mind if I friend you? We should probably stop having OT conversations on dollsome's post. :P