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Just finished season 2 and holy poo poo. This is hand's down my favorite TV show I've ever seen. Also I don't know if Teddy getting assaulted is a matter of "deserved" but that was for sure the only way he was going to understand how easily all of his power and control could be taken away from him. Plus, you know, I'm not sure a person can get much scummier than mocking someone for getting raped, regardless of them behaving inappropriately toward your wife. The only reason I think anyone doesn't view Teddy as a complete piece of poo poo after that scene is because it's such a prevalent attitude in our society and Teddy didn't really say anything I'm sure we couldn't all imagine someone we know saying. But when you look beyond how commonplace "men can't be raped" is as a cultural mindset all you're left with is him taunting a victim of an extremely severe crime from a position of what he felt was invulnerability based on him thinking Daniel was too weak to fight back, which is pure psychopathy. I hope Aden Young gets more attention for this season. That last scene alone where, as someone mentioned, it was so clear he wanted to deny everything because he knew it was the truth but he wanted the situation to be over more so he said what he thought they wanted to hear was so perfectly done. mr. mephistopheles fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Sep 14, 2014 |
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A major part of this season was Daniel having the conscious realization that he thinks he's a bad person, which heavily influences how he tells his side of the story. He tells the Teddy story in a way that makes his actions seem completely uncalled for because he personally thinks they were and he feels he reacted the way he did because he's a bad person and not because he was goaded into it by someone else's purposeful action. Like I think all of Daniel's actions need to be viewed through the lens that he doesn't really believe he's innocent. He knows he's innocent of the crime he was convicted of, but he doesn't believe he is an innocent person and so he doesn't really feel like he deserves to be treated as someone who is good. That seems to be the reason he feels so drawn to Tawny. Not because she thinks he's good because she believes he's innocent like his family does, but because she thinks he's good regardless of anything he may have done that makes him think he is not a good person. Tawny believes in him in a way that nobody else does, especially not Daniel himself. She is his only hope that he might ever be saved from being the person he believes himself to be.
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Sep 14, 2014 22:06
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