#id also like to unpack why jade is like. the undisputed fan favorite

[rubyof-thesea]

following the subreddits about FROM can be really frustrating with how so many people on there react to & talk about the show but also. as an autistic bitch with a special interest in sociology it’s fucking FASCINATING like

-the insistence on theorizing that whichever (usually very innocuous) character in the cast currently looks the most stereotypically old/frail is secretly evil/“the mole” (tillie & henry i would die for you)

-the egregious amount of hate & vitriol towards fatima (wow what a shocker that people violently hate the young brown woman going through a traumatic, medically impossible demon pregnancy, definitely because she’s “annoying” & not for any other reason)

-the similarly vitriolic hate towards ethan, who remains one of the most well-written child characters in a traumatic situation i’ve ever seen on tv, as someone who has plenty of personal experience both being a traumatized child & caring about & working with children ethan’s age (ironically, mostly comments calling ethan unrealistic/annoying)

-everything about acosta, full stop.

-endless posts about “filler” & about the mystery not being explained quickly or simply enough (extra funny/annoying because every single shot/line of dialogue in this show is so clearly purposeful & calculated, & the writers & actors have confirmed countless times since the beginning of the show that there’s a complete 5-season story arc planned out with a definitive ending, they just need to be renewed long enough for it to happen)

-the weird obsession with making sure everybody knows how much they hate kristi’s haircut, as well as demonizing her for not immediately returning kenny’s feelings/reconnecting with her fiancée (a woman). giving both thinly veiled homophobia & incel who believes in the friendzone

-frequent posts defending frank, the alcoholic father from the first few episodes of season 1 who decided to go in The Box against boyd’s wishes due to his guilt about his negligence having led to the horrific deaths of his wife & young daughter. interestingly, these posts tend to frame frank (a white man) as the victim of boyd (a black man), insisting that boyd forced him to go in the box

-the people insisting on defending jim’s routine neglect of his children & dismissal of his wife & blaming his toxic behavior on them for not doing enough emotional labor for him

+plenty of other little things, these are just the most widespread ones with the most obvious sociological implications