#I’m not being very eloquent cuz I’m literally typing this on the treadmill before I forget my thought so if this is bullshit pls ignore lol

[courtneydeservesbetter]

Been rewatching random episodes of tdi/tda whenever there’s a lull cuz I’ve been catching up with ‘laptop work’ now that the power is back on and having Duncan be a cheater was the most hypocritical decision they could have made him do and while I disagree with it (OBVIOUSLY) it is a very interesting choice. And we as a fandom should definitely talk about that aspect of his character more!

Now I’m not necessarily rewatching the whole show- I might start to though cuz I’m getting that itch again, but I’m only watching an episode here and there so I could be forgetting something. But him cheating is such an interesting thing about his character, not only because Duncan was down bad for Courtney to a SEVERE degree, but also because he was SO PROUD of the fact that he was ‘straight with people’. Yes he was a bully and an asshole, but that was like one of his moral codes in the early seasons- he didnt lie to his friends about major shit. And yeah this is definitely a flawed moral code, and he definitely has lied to and tricked people throughout the series, but it’s almost like he genuinely thought that being a liar was the worst thing you could be. He says it multiple times in season one (when they’re all mad at Heather for manipulating Lindsay, when they voted Trent off for kissing Heather, ext) and he literally tells Leshawna in tda that he ‘never messes with liars’… And then just a season later he cheats on Courtney and lies about it till someone else tells her instead. He’s become what he thought was the worst thing a person could be, a liar. And yet the writers as far as I can remember, never address that!