But it doesn't lean hard enough on it because it's trying to keep Hannah completely sympathetic
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I read it as roughly ascending in blame--not quite linearly but using the build of the narrative to raise the gravity of what's happening...
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @catvalente
Well both for the purposes of the show and Hannah's in-universe purposes the tapes are roughly chronological
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They ascend in urgency because her trauma increased in urgency up to the moment of her suicide (which is more dramatic than realistic)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @catvalente
Maybe a rock & a hard place here too though: I took it as "this has to *damn* rape culture" that Clay and Porter bridge are placed so high.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @catvalente
I feel like the problem is this one story tries to do so much. It's about suicide and bullying and rape culture and feminism
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And bills itself as being literally about The Reasons Why suicide occurs even though there's no such thing really
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Bryce is part of the problem here -- he exists bc in a show about rape culture you don't want to let rapists off the hook
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There are straight up unrepentant rapists out there and to paint him in shades of gray would do the subject a disservice
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But that distorts the story around him, it's no longer a story about the more ambiguous themes of depression and social isolation
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Like, yeah, Ryan has a point, he's an example of the way ppl can be exploitative and callous when they think they're being kind
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And that's an important theme to talk about, but he's not a fucking rapist
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