Enviro-Man

Hi, anon. Sorry for not responding before now, got extremely distracted and I didn’t really want to go into this until I felt ready.

I’ve made a few posts on why I’ve gone from loving it to hating it, including a major blog post on my wordpress, and there’s also a YouTube video/vlog I uploaded last night to explain:

http://captain-daniels.tumblr.com/post/173750561968/probably-unpopular-opinion-on-13-reasons-whyhttps://meganlovesfbawtft.wordpress.com/2018/05/13/why-a-second-series-of-13-reasons-why-is-a-bad-idea/https://youtu.be/aDpw24Y3PUg

(Warning; in the YouTube video I look like shit)

But the long and short of it, as I explained in my vlog, is that over the past few months while I’ve been working with my counselor towards recovery, I’ve started to look at the things I watch/read and how it affects my mood, how it can possibly trigger me.

When I watched the first series last year, I was not in a position where I recognized this. At that point, I wasn’t in the mindset of getting better - though I denied it - and so I watched 13 Reasons Why. Looking back, I know the reason I watched it and replayed THAT scene was because I was in a bad place and not wanting to get better.

Since I’m actually making an effort this time around to get better, I re-examined the show, and the trailer for the second series then came out. The fact that there IS a second series goes to show that it’s not about mental health awareness or helping people - it’s about money and views. They already adapted the book’s plot - there’s NO reason whatsoever to make another 13 episodes.

The show is extremely dangerous and triggering to people dealing with depression, self harm, suicide, rape etc. There’s a reason mental health experts have denounced and criticized the show - the people who made the show ignored the advice from mental health experts and actually SHOWED Hannah slitting her wrists open in the most painful and gruesome way possible. In the book, it’s mentioned it’s pills - instead, the show chose to use wrist slitting and actually showing it to appear “edgy” and be gory.

Moving on, the show also romanticizes suicide/mental illness; Clay says that Hannah died because he didn’t know how to love her - which, I’m sorry, is fcking bullshit. Also, when I was at my rock bottom, I wasn’t making some ridiculous mastermind plan that involved blaming 13 people for my suicidal decisions - Hannah takes literally no responsibility for her actions (like the fact she sat there watching Bryce rape Jess) and, at the end of the day, no one on those tapes actually killed her. She made the decision to end her own life, just like anyone who commits suicide does. When I was planning to end my own life, that was MY decision, even though other people may have impacted my thoughts/feelings - I decided, no one else, and to blame other people for it is toxic and disgusting. When i was considering ending my own life, I couldn’t even get out of bed or anything, let alone make all those goddamn tapes blaming people.

Adding on that the show offers no alternatives to suicide; she visits ONE school counselor and decides to give up. And, to be honest, he didn’t actually say anything that bad. Yes, he could have phrased the whole “move on” thing differently, but she refused to tell him the name of the guy who raped her - what can he do? What is he supposed to suggest? Is he supposed to force her into giving a name, potentially triggering her? Yeah, he probably should have gone after her when she left the office, but that still doesn’t make it okay that she then blamed him for being a reason she committed suicide.

This whole second series looks like some Riverdale/PLL bullshit and it’s awful. It’s disgusting.

If the people that are represented in the show (ie mentally ill people/rape victims) can’t watch it, then it shouldn’t be made.

Finally, since I’m talking longer than I planned to, this show DOES romanticize suicide; why the fuck is Hannah still following Clay around as a ghost? Suicide is FINAL. You do NOT float about as a ghost seeing your revenge fantasy playing out if you kill yourself. When you die, you DIE. Gone. There is NOTHING after you kill yourself. This show makes it seem like if you kill yourself, you can see your revenge playing out. (And the revenge fantasy thing is disgusting omg)