#gahi

@parva-ranus​ 

I mean, this lady is basically abusing her daughter. The things she’s saying are manipulative and creepy, and she stalks her to and from school. In a parental relationship, especially with someone who is clearly unstable, “don’t be another person’s slave” isn’t really useful advice to give your audience. Besides, there’s a lot more wrong with this lady than just being insecure and needing to get laid.

I get that it’s a kid’s show and it’s not going to take a deep dive into abuse/mental health/ power dynamics/etc. but it’s a little bit clumsy when you paint it so heavily without any intention of taking that deep dive.

I would describe it as digging a deep hole and not having enough water to fill it, if that makes sense?

Then there was the whole forced kiss thing which is like... i don’t know. I hate it, but I understand why they did it. It’s another super heavy element they threw in there without being able to go into it. Like, they needed a reason for mom to flip her nuggets while making it clear that there was nothing Yuna had done to deliberately break her mother’s rules. They sort of dealt with it by proxy with the Gahi I guess, it just muddies the water in a way.

Like, it’s not clear what the guy’s deal is. Forcing a kiss on somebody is a HUGE no-no, since it’s basically sexual assault, but as part of a cheesy romance thing it can work well enough with the right framing. It really doesn’t belong in an episode that’s all about manipulative behavior and imbalance in power dynamics, you know? At least when it goes unaddressed.

To their credit, they didn’t frame romance as the solution to Yuna’s problem. I think it’s just something you need to be like, “hey, that’s not okay, so you know,” when you’re including it in a story about the sorts of things that aren’t okay.

Like I said, I understand why it was there. I think they needed to go back and rethink what they’re actually trying to accomplish here.

Barb with her BF c: