Fuck it.
*Gets extremely emotional over a dumb romcom*
Okay, so letās talk Senior Year and why I fucking hate Martha and Seth;
Yk what, Martha was being such an asshole during her fight w Steph. Itās so fucking stupid to act like she owns you maturity and responsibility when she is 17. Like, yeah, she has the body of a 37yo woman but mentally she is seven-fucking-teen. And also all that stupid ass talk abt āyou had me, you had Sethā, no tf she didnāt?? Why would she even want to hang out with them? They are adults, they have their own lives, jobs, concerns and as far as Steph remembers she is just a kid, itās obvious that sheād rather hang out w teens at a house party than keep on being besties with people twenty years older than her, besides, her relationship with Seth is REALLY icky. How tf does this man whoās pushing forty think itās okay to date his friend who hasnāt aged mentally since they were seniors? He doesnāt have the right to get mad at her for āteenage-tricking himā when he himself is taking advantage of a woman who clearly does not have life experience of maturity to be with an adult (despite physically being one herself).
Everything that Steph says to defend herself during the fight is completely justifiable. And also, the police shouldnāt even consider this as an adult woman giving alcohol to teens when she literally has a medical bill saying āthis woman is mentally a teenager and lost the last 20 years of her lifeā, like even legally she should barely count as an adult.
Everyone who gets mad at Steph throughout the movie tells her some variation of āyou have to grow upā but how do you want her to even do that? She was in a coma for twenty years for fuckās sake, maturity obviously wonāt js pop up in her brain bc she suddenly woke up at 37.
And the way that the fight turns into āyou pushed me away in highschool to b popularš„ŗā is SO ridiculous. Martha is telling Steph to grow up and yet she canāt get over the fact that her friend made a dick move twenty years ago. Get the fuck over yourself, woman.
The āmaking mistakes is different than willfully screwing over the ppl who care abt youā line is also so bad, Steph didnāt do anything to screw over anyone, she made two dumb decisions (one of which VERY dumb one, for that matter (and the other was 20 years ago, as mentioned)) but she IS NOT at the same level of maturity as her old friends and they shouldnāt expect her to.
The only people who treated Steph right through the whole movie were her father, who (despite letting her go out with Seth) still treated and cared for her like the teenager she truly is, and her high shool friends who never questioned treating her as one of them.
Conclusion: Steph should have dumped Sethās creepy advantage taking ass and Marthaās fuck ass exigency for maturity (even when she doesnāt have any herselfš) and stayed with Janet and Yaz, they were real ones.
