no intouchdaisy interaction? daisy crying? daisy trying to be mainly so she could appease to touch's friends? nuea staying quiet with the instagram pic? SO NO INTOUCHDAISY??
THAT ENTIRE PART 4/4 SURE WAS SOMETHING HUH
tho that said, i did actually like it even if it was painful to watch. scoy has always been way more about The Queer Experience over like, shipping and the way they handled daisy trying to grapple with trying to fit in a gender box to appease the boy she likes (even tho he never asked her to do so) was really nice. ESPECIALLY the way the core four handled it -- their unwavering support combined with their questions of is this what daisy wants or is this what daisy thinks she has to do?
i mean, who of us who aren't in the cis heteronormative mold haven't had an experience where it's like -- should i pretend to fit that box so i can make friends easier/find a romantic partner easier/whatever the hell that just boils down to some sort of acceptance? this was daisy having that crisis in reaction to meeting a boy she really, really, really likes. i think the lack of intouch this episode was on purpose bc he's never shown to be interested in daisy being anything but herself. this was daisy's crisis to work through, she didn't need a man to tell her she was okay as who she was, she needed her friends to do that. her family. which they did, very passionately. they took care of her like she needed in that moment! daisy's "i'm so exhausted" was really everything to me.
as for nuea not reacting to the instagram hate, i think this is going to be a similar plot we've seen elsewhere where for nuea, he doesn't see it as a threat bc it isn't a big deal to him. he's always been talked about online, that's just his norm. he probably expected his fans to hate toh, same way toh expected them to hate him. (which is probs why he's always like i like you, trust that i like you and i will always like you.) he's probably in for an empathy wake up call next episode when he actually SEES toh and realizes how this is making him feel, when toh has never been in the spotlight before unlike nuea.
either way, my faith isn't shaken in this show at all. i really liked this episode and i liked this direction for conflict bc it's still really baked into the overall message of queer acceptance that this show keeps beating the drum of.
