I was very compelled by the show despite my issues, but I am also not an impressionable teen. Adult depression is different
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Replying to @catvalente @Hal_Duncan
Adult me greeted the show's supposedly inspirational ending with bleak melancholy, teen me would've felt it as sheer despair
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"We need to be kinder to each other" but the level of kindness the show ultimately seems to demand is that of a boddhisattva
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That clearly isn't the answer because unkindness is inevitable, it's part of being human, and we need to survive our own and others'
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And it gestures toward that but doesn't quite get there. Clay doesn't reconcile with any of his fellow recipients
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He goes off in the sunset with three other "blameless" characters, Tony and his boyfriend and Skye
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ugh the part where Tony flat out tells Clay that he specifically is responsible for Hannah's death
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This made me so angry. TONY WTF. The show was trying to compel viewership instead of tell an honest story at this point.
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YUP
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Yeah at that point Tony is the avatar of the show's producers
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"I'm your friend, I'm trying to help you" Kinda feels more like you're trying to heighten drama for its own sake dude
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Replying to @arthur_affect @anne_theriault and
Like why else do you keep taking an emotionally distressed teenager to very high places with no guard rail
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RIGHT?
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