Jet and Maddox are siblings?!?

How is all of this collectively the one single sub-genre you’re claiming it is?? And why is 2010’s emo culture getting mixed in with 00’s emo culture? 2009-2011 sure I could see it because they’re so close together and that does feel like a specific transitional period, but after that they’re pretty different.

And it’s not simply all of them trying to enjoy everything now that they don’t feel bound by a specific genre, because loads of people claim this is accurate and that they want to be accurate but they’re not (in the nicest way I can say that).

So I’ve got a question:

(spoilers but this show is almost 26 yrs old so if you get spoiled and didn’t want to that’s on you)

5.)Becky and Adam (she overcame her family’s religious values and endured religious persecution just to be with Adam. It took her time to come to terms and accept him as him, but she went against her family for love and I have to respect that. Were they the greatest love story ever? No and also what Becky and his brother Drew did after he died was shitty as hell but in their prime they were sweet.)

4.) Claire and Eli (now LISTEN. They were both messy -although Claire’s messy wasn’t because of a disorder and Eli’s was- but they loved each other so much despite everything.)

3.)Ellie and Sean (and I know in general it might not have been Sean’s most beloved relationship by fans -I do like Emma and Sean I promise-, but he offered his home to her and gave up his bed so she didn’t have to sleep on the couch, and didn’t ever ask to share it with her even though there were no parental figures around. I think truly if Ellie was able to stay with Sean she wouldn’t have ended up how she did towards the end of her run -although she did have severe mental health issues so maybe it wouldn’t have mattered-)

2.) Connor and Jenna (genuinely one of the most solid relationships of the whole show. Not without their drama but I genuinely think they were the sweetest and Connor and Jenna both worked hard to understand each other. Plus the space date was so cute.)

Read this. East of Eden, 1952.

For those unaware of how this is:

She was supposed to be autistic from the beginning and it was supposed to be talked about directly by name, but the network didn’t let the creators say the words so as not to potentially jeopardize viewership (it was a lot more important back in the day when you had to choose to sit down for the premiere and carve your evening around it and then choose to keep watching), so they had to keep the elements and work around an offical diagnosis. The once the show got popular I suspect it just felt either too late or unnecessary for them to say it and confirm so they just-.., left it as something you know but never hear. Like it’s there but no one talks about it.

I think this works well though as it allows for her storylines to be more human led rather than being led by what people expect a diagnosis to look like. It feels more authentic because they had the restriction of not saying it. Brennan is one type of autistic, and some autistic people don’t have diagnoses, or they do and they don’t talk about it. In her case I think she was never diagnosed or no one who knew told her, which fits in either case with her families fake identity plot because scrubbing documentation would be something they’d do as a means to scrub their former identities.

It also works well for her because if they had said she had autism there’s a chance it really truly would have made people not watch. Some people like portioning out that a character is autistic or “a little weird” or when discussing a show they like/are watching “that one show with that odd fella”, as the characters quirks add to the enjoyment. But being told about neurodivergent people (especially in 2005, and earlier for other shows) by name of diagnosis makes it less funny, or cool, or relatable. Neurotypical people don’t like that. They like joking that the character is “so autistic” but only with the padding and safety of never having to hear it finitely in a canon capacity.