About the phone thing from your last ask, had Chim been awake to give consent, he absolutely, unquestioningly would have. He probably would have offered the information before anyone could even ask for it. Where as T could literally have used her own phone to google when the last update was or check the app in the store to see when it was last updated, no reason to use Buck's phone at all. But even if she did need to, she could have asked and Buck likely would have said yes or looked up the info for her. This scene just showed again that their "relationship" is entirely on her terms.
This is honestly such a good and blatantly obvious point.
And here's the thing. I don't care if you like Taylor Kelly. There's nothing wrong with appreciating a fictional character. Especially not someone who represents more 'villainous' aspects. I mean look at Hades from Hercules, look at Loki from Marvel. Look at Hope from Sex Education.
God knows I'd jump on August Walker's dick faster than he could say 'hello.'
My issue comes with people acting as if their actions and behavior are excusable, valid, harmless and inherently normal.
Taylor Kelly is not a good person. She's manipulative, point blank. She has dubious morals, is blatantly uncaring of how she treats the people around her and she's hungry for power and success to the point where she was blatantly willing to risk other people's lives for it.
Has she mellowed out since her introduction? Probably. A few crocodile tears isn't enough to convince me, but thus far she hasn't done anything as drastic. Not, necessarily, that she's had the opportunity to. She's also already successfully obtained a set career on air, so that's probably helped some. She got what she wanted, in the end.
If you like her? That's fine. We all have characters we like. Most of us have characters we like because they're not good people. You can like her simply for the fact she's hot, I don't care. God knows there are two-dimensional characters I've liked simply for the eye candy.
'The people/we love a good villain' is not just a quote. Its a reality. So is 'we love to hate people.'
But if you're one of the people frothing at the mouth to defend her and her actions, and one of the people trying to tear down the other characters in order to validate her or in order to negate the impact and severity of her actions/behavior, know that I have literally less than 0% respect for you.
Its perfectly okay to acknowledge the character you like is shitty or has flaws. Its perfectly okay to use critical thinking and standard reason to recognise the fact that you can like a character, for whatever reason, while still recognising what they've done is bad. Its okay to like a bad character without validating their actions.
