The Jaspenor debate
Ok, I’m not that invested in this show but bad understanding of sloppy writing kinda bother me, so there it is. Jasper did not rape Eleanor in season 1. I don’t know which show you’all were watching, but, honestly, this show would NEVER have the guts to go there, which you can easily see by how lightly it treats basically every topic. It’s a guily pleasure show, people. CHILL. Yes, he did a bad thing cause she was drunk and on drugs, but (and no, I’m not saying this makes it ok, don’t even try it, rape is my personal trigger) season 1 Len was ALWAYS drunk and on drugs. That was the point, that she was depressed, lonely and messed up. She could have exposed him literally five seconds after, even if she thought there was a videotape, since she never cared about any of that stuff and she was already always in the papers anyway. Plus, she was very self-destructive at the time and also, spoiler alert, Len’s got some submission kinks that are very very obvious (I mean, look at that weird tunnel scene, way back, in the episode with the ball). I never believed for a second the rape storyline, cause the show basically deleted it by episode 2. The point they’ve been stressing since season 1 is basically that they’re both so messed up that they understand each other. Yes, very weird, very sloppy written (I partly blame Mark Schwahn, who obviously had some serious issues), very problematic and I don’t really “ship” it, but all of season 1 to me was merely bad writing at his worst.
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