Wait can you please explain what the inconsistency was with dee in the roller rink episode?
Sure! The episode kinda jumped on the opportunity to explore “Sweet Dee” as if she was genuinely a sweet/kind-hearted person up to the point of the guys purchasing the bar (and arguably everyone is portrayed as a more naive, kinder version of their character—imo to try and say that buying Paddy’s shifted the tide and put them on these terrible paths). The thing is, everything we know about the Gang pre-Paddy’s has established that since high school (and arguably as far back as middle school), they have been [self]destructive assholes, Dee very much included (wherein Paddy’s isn’t the root of their behaviour, but where they were driven as outcasts and works to keep a lot of their damage self-contained).
There are many examples of pre-Paddy’s Sweet Dee not being very sweet, but the two biggest are:
Season 2, where we meet Cricket and learn that he’s a high school victim of the Gang’s, mainly due to the fact that Dee led him on to get him to do her homework (and essentially be their jester) and convinced him to eat literal horse shit for a kiss (which she didn’t follow through with); and
Season 9, where it’s revealed that the reason why Dee didn’t graduate college was because she set her roommate on fire for “copying her” (as in Dee was copying her lol) and was institutionalised against her will.
So in addition to the mischaracterisation of her “actually being sweet” up until the events of Roller Rink, the year it’s set in is also confusing for her timeline, given in Season 1 she says she has “three-quarters of a major” in Psychology, 1998 should have been approximately a year, if not less, since the roommate incident, but all of this, including her not graduating from college, is completely unaddressed in the episode.
(However, this is actually better support for my headcanon that Dee’s overt sweetness (and the guys acting like that to her in return) is due to her actively being in treatment / getting support at the time. No one wants to rock the boat given what just happened.)
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