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Responses to the TRMD post earlier.

youhavenotseenmyvengence said: I
think the whole conversation with Batchi about the PI she hired to look
for Tommy was supposed to hint at Althea looking for something valuable
he took. Coz I don’t think she’d hire a PI to look for him just to see
his stupid face.

Yeah, that was the most solid indication something else was going on, but a son! Her demeanor was more someone frazzled about money, not defeated and desperate about losing her chance on something so important.

Anonymous said:
I
agree with you about what you said regarding TRMD, the writer showed
how lacking she is with that out of nowhere kid storyline, the fact that
she had to tell people on social media that there were hints shows that
no one caught her hints.  Also who the hell calls their dog after their
missing child? And why didn’t Althea ever mention him with anyone? I am
with you that i’ll never recommend this show again to anyone lesbians
with husbands kids is not exactly a pleasant plot.

Naming your dog after your missing kid is so preposterous. I don’t understand
how that was a hint, and to call it such is almost insulting. Althea never bringing up the situation in the most natural of conversations was definitely a deliberate decision to drive up the impact of the reveal, but I feel it has failed. We’re supposed to have an aha moment as things previously hinted or suggested at fall into place, not unhappily confused and seeing how out of character it is.

I don’t personally care about the part with a lesbian having a husband and a kid, that’s part of her past and background. It’s just that its impact on the present is being handled in all the wrong ways.

lazycheskie said: I
feel you. I can’t drop the show either.  I love the characters, &
the actors too much. especially the actors. I really do want to support
them in everything they do. should’ve known tho. classic soap move. just
thought this would be different

My problem isn’t how out there it is as a soap trope or even that there’s a surprise kid at all, I just wish it’d been written better and not hurt Althea’s character so much.

Anonymous said:
Hey
booasaur, just wanted to say I totally agree with you about your latest
TRMD post. I’m so disappointed that the show showed such amazing
promise at the start and now has taken a really shitty turn with this
new, dumb storyline. I’m now too embarrassed to recommend this show to
anyone. I only keep tabs on it via tumblr now because the actresses have
been respectful to the LGBT community and are doing the best they can
even with the limitations censorship and bad writing has placed on them.

Yeah, I think that’s why I’m taking it so hard, it could have been so good, and it HAS been really good in places, the chemistry and interactions, the Tanchincgo siblings, Jade and Amanda. But then, everything good that we’ve seen was written and acted knowing that this would come, nothing has really changed behind the scenes. Hopefully we’ll get a lot more of the good that we liked to outweigh the bad. I’m not the type of person to enjoy hate-watching things, so I’ve basically had to brainwash myself to wrench around my
thinking on this and acceptance of it, but it’s either that or stop watching something I really liked.

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So…the kid. I’m disappointed. The Althea we’ve seen has been remarkably open with her emotions, not someone who’s hidden her feelings at all, so it’s unbelievable to me that she would have a missing son and be so lackadaisical about him. A dog with the same name? Is not a hint at all. “Too subtle” means something the audience didn’t pick up on at all, before OR after, and that implies either poor writing, directing, or acting. And since there’s been no hint in the narrative, no mention of him at some very appropriate times with Althea’s father or her conversations with Batchi, I’m going to lay the blame here at writing. It’s clear that this was something intentionally withheld for maximum shock reveal impact.

I’m certainly not going to openly recommend this anymore, not without an incredibly strong disclaimer. To add to the one about the treatment of the suicide attempt, actually, since that was very poor as well, with it treated only as a plot device and not a significant event on its own. That should probably have been the first sign, I guess, but the ep 16 fluff swept it all away. But my options here are obviously to either accept it or to drop the show. And…I’m too invested and still too in love with the ship to move on. So I will simply have to go back to earlier scenes and retcon them as Althea worrying about her kid, even if we don’t have any actual indication of it. I didn’t think I would have to put that much effort into headcanoning the characters into consistency for this show, but there it is, nothing I can do about it now.

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So…the kid. I’m disappointed. The Althea we’ve seen has been remarkably open with her emotions, not someone who’s hidden her feelings at all, so it’s unbelievable to me that she would have a missing son and be so lackadaisical about him. A dog with the same name? Is not a hint at all. “Too subtle” means something the audience didn’t pick up on at all, before OR after, and that implies either poor writing, directing, or acting. And since there’s been no hint in the narrative, no mention of him at some very appropriate times with Althea’s father or her conversations with Batchi, I’m going to lay the blame here at writing. It’s clear that this was something intentionally withheld for maximum shock reveal impact.

I’m certainly not going to openly recommend this anymore, not without an incredibly strong disclaimer. To add to the one about the treatment of the suicide attempt, actually, since that was very poor as well, with it treated only as a plot device and not a significant event on its own. That should probably have been the first sign, I guess, but the ep 16 fluff swept it all away. But my options here are obviously to either accept it or to drop the show. And…I’m too invested and still too in love with the ship to move on. So I will simply have to go back to earlier scenes and retcon them as Althea worrying about her kid, even if we don’t have any actual indication of it. I didn’t think I would have to put that much effort into headcanoning the characters into consistency for this show, but there it is, nothing I can do about it now.

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So…the kid. I’m disappointed. The Althea we’ve seen has been remarkably open with her emotions, not someone who’s hidden her feelings at all, so it’s unbelievable to me that she would have a missing son and be so lackadaisical about him. A dog with the same name? Is not a hint at all. “Too subtle” means something the audience didn’t pick up on at all, before OR after, and that implies either poor writing, directing, or acting. And since there’s been no hint in the narrative, no mention of him at some very appropriate times with Althea’s father or her conversations with Batchi, I’m going to lay the blame here at writing. It’s clear that this was something intentionally withheld for maximum shock reveal impact.

I’m certainly not going to openly recommend this anymore, not without an incredibly strong disclaimer. To add to the one about the treatment of the suicide attempt, actually, since that was very poor as well, with it treated only as a plot device and not a significant event on its own. That should probably have been the first sign, I guess, but the ep 16 fluff swept it all away. But my options here are obviously to either accept it or to drop the show. And…I’m too invested and still too in love with the ship to move on. So I will simply have to go back to earlier scenes and retcon them as Althea worrying about her kid, even if we don’t have any actual indication of it. I didn’t think I would have to put that much effort into headcanoning the characters into consistency for this show, but there it is, nothing I can do about it now.

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Going to continue with the side-eyeing of the suicide plot, especially its wrap-up (I’ll assume Jade requested Althea be there, so at least her presence there makes sense) because why would the doctor not question Jade’s happiness and health being so tied to one person…but the onscreen aftermath has been glorious. Second half of ep 14, then 15 and 16, these are truly special times.

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Going to continue with the side-eyeing of the suicide plot, especially its wrap-up (I’ll assume Jade requested Althea be there, so at least her presence there makes sense) because why would the doctor not question Jade’s happiness and health being so tied to one person…but the onscreen aftermath has been glorious. Second half of ep 14, then 15 and 16, these are truly special times.

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Going to continue with the side-eyeing of the suicide plot, especially its wrap-up (I’ll assume Jade requested Althea be there, so at least her presence there makes sense) because why would the doctor not question Jade’s happiness and health being so tied to one person…but the onscreen aftermath has been glorious. Second half of ep 14, then 15 and 16, these are truly special times.