I also see Tucker as a very maternal figure. She's an interesting character to look at as a woman writer. She wears pants and was out there. The thing I had to realize first before the script really worked was that emotional logic in film is chronological and linear. The wonderful thing is that the human intellect and emotional life is non-linear.
Film is about time travel essentially.
For one thing, shooting out of order. It's kind of Freudian. Where you go back to this pivotal moment. It's funny, cause personally I'm not big on Freud. But damn, it works well in film and script-writing.