Kat
Could have been a 9.5/10 without villians
It's so frustrating. You have an AMAZING show, with couples that have very good chemistry and overall their couple's lives are really interesting and character development is good. Not to mention it's all blazing hot.
But then they go and ruin both arks with the most lazy, most problematic writing for villians. Eventhough absolutely 0 villians would have made the show fantastic. I had to lower my rating so much cause the poisonous stuff is really going extremely overboard. I can only be grateful that at least those parts ruined "only" 1 episode per arch.
Have absolutely all red flag trigger warnings for all the "romantic-heckin'-no-it's-just-plain-out-r-culture-tropes" prepared. Though thankfully the great majority of them is NOT between the couples! When you see those parts, skip over them for the sake of your sanity till you see the couples interact again, then it's basically over and you get all the lovely fluff again.
Why they did this to the show and the poor actors, I do not know! But if the ppl in charge make anything in future, they better cut it out. Noone, absolutely noone, will have take anything positive out of those scenes. By being that graphic, these scenes just trigger survivors and show the wrong ppl how to be particularly destructive!! Why promote that? Why not keep it down? People with empathy will get the horros without the visuals and ppl who don't get it, won't get it even if you show them! They learn from personal or close family&peer relationships only!!
- So, 70% really top!
- 10% dubious and "it's only not stalking cause they end up together". Can you plz stop promiting it these tropes. In real live the outcomes are mostly bad so do not sell to survivors & ppl unsure how to pursue a crush, that they could have had happy endings this way! Not happening!!! Don't do it! Bad messaging, bad behavioural modelling!!
- 20% are "r you kidding me? Where's the antidote to this toxic mind-broken stuff??
I can only recommend to watch the legit fluff, not normalise anything that doesn't fall under true consent (if saying no comes with negative consequences, then it's NOT consent), and really skip the r-culture stuff!
(If you do not know what r-culture is, then think 'making light of abuse in physically intimate context' and you'll probably figure it out)
But then they go and ruin both arks with the most lazy, most problematic writing for villians. Eventhough absolutely 0 villians would have made the show fantastic. I had to lower my rating so much cause the poisonous stuff is really going extremely overboard. I can only be grateful that at least those parts ruined "only" 1 episode per arch.
Have absolutely all red flag trigger warnings for all the "romantic-heckin'-no-it's-just-plain-out-r-culture-tropes" prepared. Though thankfully the great majority of them is NOT between the couples! When you see those parts, skip over them for the sake of your sanity till you see the couples interact again, then it's basically over and you get all the lovely fluff again.
Why they did this to the show and the poor actors, I do not know! But if the ppl in charge make anything in future, they better cut it out. Noone, absolutely noone, will have take anything positive out of those scenes. By being that graphic, these scenes just trigger survivors and show the wrong ppl how to be particularly destructive!! Why promote that? Why not keep it down? People with empathy will get the horros without the visuals and ppl who don't get it, won't get it even if you show them! They learn from personal or close family&peer relationships only!!
- So, 70% really top!
- 10% dubious and "it's only not stalking cause they end up together". Can you plz stop promiting it these tropes. In real live the outcomes are mostly bad so do not sell to survivors & ppl unsure how to pursue a crush, that they could have had happy endings this way! Not happening!!! Don't do it! Bad messaging, bad behavioural modelling!!
- 20% are "r you kidding me? Where's the antidote to this toxic mind-broken stuff??
I can only recommend to watch the legit fluff, not normalise anything that doesn't fall under true consent (if saying no comes with negative consequences, then it's NOT consent), and really skip the r-culture stuff!
(If you do not know what r-culture is, then think 'making light of abuse in physically intimate context' and you'll probably figure it out)
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