Since you were talking about Glen. I’m a bit confused why nobody seems to be picking up that he’s not her colleague (Betty is still a trainee!) but her SUPERIOR! There’s a clear power imbalance between them - especially given the fact that Betty seems to be on some sort of probation for the mistake she made while investigating TBK. He was also condescending and insensitive towards her. So there are clearly some very icky and transactional elements to whatever kind of “relationship” they have and we could already see that Betty actively tries to avoid him. IMO it looks a bit like he’s coercing her into sleeping with him (in exchange for not firing her). Very interested in your thoughts.
i mean, i hold different standards for fiction than i do for my real life, you know? if the narrative treats it like a problem, then i will roll with it being a problem. i think, as you said, his condescending attitude towards her is a bigger issue. that she’s not very interested tells me he’s more invested than she is, tbh. why he’s more invested, we don’t know yet. maybe he’s controlling and gross, maybe he’s a good guy who just picked the wrong girl to simp over, we don’t know yet.
can you be sort of a dick and a simp? i don’t know. anyways, i didn’t get the impression he’s coercing her (not yet anyhow), i feel like she’s just not that into him and he’s frustrated with it. which, i would find a problem because it’s often been shown that men who are like that tend to take drastic measures into their own hands to control the object of their affection.
guys like that are creepy and i’ve been there done that, and had to do some down and dirty tactics to get him off my ass tbh (which, not proud of) but when men don’t understand the concept of no, you need to watch out for yourself. maybe betty doesn’t take him seriously yet, maybe she needs to. maybe she’s about to find out the hard way.
maybe he’s a good guy who’s badly written and unimportant to the narrative at the moment. with rvd’s history, my immediate vote is bad guy because women in this show get like, 2 guys maximum who won’t emotionally or physically control or abuse them. so. what are the odds, you know?
maybe she feels like she can’t tell him to kick rocks because of her job and that would be a problem but narratively, i’m taking a wait and see approach on glen. which is, i fully expect him to be a d-bag but will be slightly shocked if he’s just a nice guy who doesn’t want betty to end up in a murder hole again. even if he’s being a bit of a dick about it at the moment.