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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Replying to @anne_theriault @catvalente and
like ... Clay's reason for being on the tapes was that he took Hannah at her word to leave her alone?
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Tbf the show gives us a lot more instances of Clay genuinely being a less than ideal friend to Hannah to fill in around that
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I thought the show was (again: v. male-centrically) more challenging us to interrogate the complicity of Nice Guy surrogate obliviousness.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect and
Like, Clay's the male audience surrogate figure, the "how could I possibly be at fault" Nice Guy. His crime is inaction, the privilege of it
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as a woman, Clay's tape was disturbing because it suggested that when a girl you're making out with
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Replying to @anne_theriault @Hal_Duncan and
starts crying, pushing you away and yelling at you to leave, she actually wants you to stay & talk
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See, I read that as being put in precisely to dismiss it, with all the little stuff before that being the actual wrong. Maybe wishful thinkn
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Yeah that's how I'd like to read it but it's done poorly -- prolly bc Clay being let off the hook is the book's weakest moment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
The author copped to it in an interview, that he just copped out at that point
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
"The time came to find a way to make Clay culpable but still a character we related to and could see through the eyes of and I couldn't"
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