Carla and Samuel deserved better...
If you think I’m talking about the ship you better keep scrolling 💀 Sorry, I’m not here for Samuel huffing and puffing about Polo running around the school as a free killer but simping for Carla’s rich white girl ass, as if that bitch didn’t send his brother iPad Nano to jail...😭 Christian’s Himbo ass needs to come back and woop Samuel’s ass for falling for Carla 😳 After Marina he didn’t learn about toxic rich girls??👎
Okay here me out ! This rant isn’t about Carmuel necessarily but their storylines in s3 and lack of development.
Elite followed the Clay Jensen archetype when writing Samuel because his character follows the basic white boy protagonist archetype...no originality at all! He wants justice for the girl he was in love with yadayada 🥱 Not much depth was given to him unfortunately to make him interesting, but that was a flaw given to most of the characters tbh. Samuel was probably the strongest in s2 but s3 didn’t give him much to do. s3 didn’t give Carla any depth too 😐 Them as a dynamic was wasted unfortunately.
If Samuel was more so focused on getting justice or revenge for the collapse of his old public school that arc would tie him close with Marina’s being that in s1 Marina’s original motives were to expose her father and Carla’s father for their corruption and criminal activities that ultimately caused the ruin of Samuel, Nadia, Omar and Christian’s public school. That was justice deserved...I could care less about Nano going to jail 🥱 🤣 The show missed an opportunity on continuing the stolen red watch plot line that symbolised a lot of importance in s1 and it tied the arc’s of Carla, Nano and Marina together. That brings me to Carla...
One of the reasons the show messed up was the victimisation of Carla. She’s this strong, quick thinking young girl who puts her family before anything. She had people framed for murder,never defended her ex boyfriend after his “accident” instrumented by her father and was complicit to her father’s corruption. Despite her characteristics she fell for Samuel and felt bad about his disappearance, causing her to confess to Marina’s murder. It was kind of out of character considering the person Carla was but you can argue she didn’t want the bloodshed to continue. That being said remember when Carla was rebellious??? In s3 she’s this submissive Daddy’s girl, who still abides to his supremacy. She doesn’t change much, she’s just victimised even more.🥱 She doesn’t face much consequences for her actions, nor is she properly called out on them.
What should of happened for Samuel and Carla storylines
In a perfect world Carla would actually develop and grow out of the sex-symbol rich girl the writers held her to. Unfortunately her s3 storyline didn’t give her a lot of storytelling 🥱 What I WISHED that happened in s3 was Carla EXPOSING and freeing her self from her father. If Samuel continued Marina’s work in exposing Carla and Marina’s fathers corruption and Carla joined him, Samuel and Carla would:
Both be given interesting arcs because wtf were their s3 storylines 💀😐🥱
Carla would develop and free herself from her toxic, criminal father and try to learn from her actions.
Samuel would get the justice he so badly wanted but this time to his old public school, than just avenging Marina and Nano.
The watch and it’s information exposing the elite’s corruption plotline in S1 would have a resolution.
Carla’s father would be investigated and have a chance to rot in jail!
Carla and Samuel would work as a dynamic because in s2 they were tied together and this would put a resolution to their relationship.
Carla and Samuel would get a perspective into each other’s world, coming from two different socioeconomic environments despite fighting the same cause. For example Samuel would understand that justice is not so easy when dealing with corrupt people like Theodore💀 and Carla would see what her father’s actions caused and fight against him.
We wouldn’t have to watch Carla x Yeray and Rebe x Samuel struggle “relationships” 🤦♂️
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