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[janie_tangerine]

1. Exam two on five is done! Now if I can just keep up the average that I managed to get this round I'll be a happy person. Other than that, it has snowed for the first time in years! Like, seriously snowed with the snow lasting for three days. And obviously since our mayor is an idiot, the city is half-paralyzed and today they closed everything

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[twisting_vine_x]

No, you're definitely not the only one. I feel bad for Bridget, and I get why she started impersonating her sister, but holy fucking shit, girl, you should have gotten out of there as soon as you could. As far as she knows, she is screwing the husband of her dead sister while said husband thinks that she is said dead sister. THERE IS JUST NOTHING OKAY ABOUT THIS.

tbh the only reason I didn't quit it at episode seven was that I heard about Misha being on it so I figured I could just do it until his episode.

Yeah. See, I actually found myself starting to enjoy aspects of the show - at least more than I did at the beginning, when it was just goddamn ridiculous - but I think that's more cause I'm holding out for Bridget to get caught. Because the life she's living now is absolutely so many shades of not okay, and I feel bad for her, what with crazy killer guy on her tail - but what she's doing is so far from okay, and I'm still holding out for the episode when everything's revealed and shit goes crazy.

There's no way this is going to turn out good any way it goes.

There really isn't. Amen to all you said. And I think they were right to make her reluctant to say anything to begin with - because, unfortunately, that's what happens in so many rape cases - but if that had kept going, and she had ended up legit not saying anything by the end of the last episode, I would have had an absolute shit fit. And at least her friend was there being the voice of reason at the beginning, i.e. OH MY GOD TELL SOMEONE. And yeah - good on Bridget for punching the guy.

But for the whole plot arc in general... you're right. The show is about Bridget. And Juliet's arc - which could be an entire damn show in itself, with all the shit she's gonna have to deal with now - is never going to get the attention it deserves.

And let's not go into the other subliminal message that sending your daughter to public school is going to get her raped.

That, too. So not okay.

As for Castiel... I'm terrified for episode 17. Because while it would be hard to find an even worse ending for him than the one he already got, somehow I fell like the SPN Powers That Be could find a way. -_- I want him back, so much it physically hurt, but I'm absolutely emotionally defenseless when it comes to his character, and I'm just terrified we're going to be put through the ringer again, even worse than before.

and who cares what the rest of the fandom thinks. ;)

Argh. The Cas hate is ridiculous. I hate how this fandom splits so in half. I honestly just made a post on tumblr - with a link to the couples poll that Dean/Castiel is part of - and I was like, "Look, I don't care who you ship, be it Wincest or Destiel or Wincestiel or absolutely nobody at all - s'all good. But if you're queer-friendly and part of fandom, help us Destiel shippers win?" Also, the fact that Matt Cohen re-tweeted said link on twitter made my life. I love this cast. ♥

[twisting_vine_x]

And I think they were right to make her reluctant to say anything to begin with - because, unfortunately, that's what happens in so many rape cases - but if that had kept going, and she had ended up legit not saying anything by the end of the last episode, I would have had an absolute shit fit. And at least her friend was there being the voice of reason at the beginning, i.e. OH MY GOD TELL SOMEONE. And yeah - good on Bridget for punching the guy.

To clarify: the fact that Juliet still wishes nobody knew - and that she blames herself, and wishes that Bridget hadn't punched the guy - really, really, reeeeally needs to be addressed. And needs to be addressed in a way that does justice to what she's been through. Because her being ashamed of what happened is exactly the wrong message to send, and if that doesn't change, then I'm soon going to find myself clawing at the computer screen.

However, that being said, this show probably won't deal with this decently, at all. -_-

[janie_tangerine]

That's exactly what I'm worried about.... and sadly what I expect from them, because if we look at the whole Bridget/Andrew thing (I still think that the way they're writing it we're supposed to root for it, which just NO but you get what i mean) I don't really expect them to handle the consequences sensibly. Also because it seems like they're just putting cliché over cliché and if they do that then dealing seriously with it isn't going to happen. Then again, sometimes I feel like this show's point is throw together all the soap opera tropes ever X_X

And needs to be addressed in a way that does justice to what she's been through. Because her being ashamed of what happened is exactly the wrong message to send, and if that doesn't change, then I'm soon going to find myself clawing at the computer screen.

THIS EXACTLY. (More on that on the comment I'm about to write in response to the one up here, but yes. this.) I've rarely managed to see anything on tv that dealt with rape in ways that I could get behind, but if they're going to just push this under a rug I'll scream. And quit it the second Misha does his job. ://

[janie_tangerine]

Phew, I'm just really glad it's not only me. ;) Really, Bridget, I did like you in the beginning, but I think that I lost her the second she decided not to bail. (Then she went around leaving handprints and making me headdesk and wonder why would the leading character NOT use any brains whatsoever, but that's another story.) I just - I don't GET how she's so okay with sleeping with someone who thinks that she's another person. X_____X or how the audience is supposed to ship them, because that's what I feel they're aiming at :////

I've been waiting for Bridget to get caught too but by now.. I mean, half the reason why I think that this show is ridiculous is that NO ONE HAS CAUGHT HER YET or NO ONE EVER SUSPECTED THAT SHE ISN'T SIOBHAN when errrrrr I mean, suspension of disbelief and everything, but with all the clues she had left around I can't believe that no one got there on their own except for one person X_X

Nah having her not wanting to tell was okay - since that's (sadly) how it usually goes, fine. But if it ends with Juliet keeping on thinking that Bridget did a stupid thing decking the guy/thinking that it's her fault/not pressing charges/the likes it's going to give out all the possible wrong messages ever. Not to mention that geez I don't really -like- anyone in this show except Eyelashes and Juliet mostly makes me want to headdesk most of the time (like, when she complained about daddy freezing her two million bank account I was about to cry while asking myself 'why do I even care'), but crap you put her through something like THAT, then I want to see the repercussions. But this is about crazy twin shenigans, not serious things like teachers raping their students =_= bleah. After it's done I'll just go re-watch Six Feet Under just to remind myself that some people do know how to handle that subject.

Same re Cas. I mean, I'm already thinking that it might be the one time in ten years when I get colossally drunk if they waste him all over again X___X I can only hope that Ben Edlund is behind it. In case I'm fine. I just - DON'T TAKE HIM AWAY AGAIN TERRIBLY OKAY I CAN'T DEAL WITH IT. .... yeah, emotionally invested as well - go us?

... but AWWWWWWWWWWWW MATT COHEN <3333 I LOVE THAT MAN AND THAT CAST. and ugh I just don't get why half of fandom has to think that you can't like Cas. (Okay, that you can't rightfully be pissed. Really, if he had died a WORTHY death, ie Bobby, I might have dealt with it - I can disagree with killing him but the way they handled it was objectively worth of the character - Cas's, for a supposed death, was just the most ridiculous thing since my favorite character in Heroes, which maybe was worse but same level. Blame me if I'd like him to die decently, if he has to.) Can't we just.. like what we like in peace? :( ah well. Let's hope for the best y/y? Heck, if Dean hugs him I'll just disregard all the rest.