The great and terrible thing about tv characters is you cannot definitively argue who they are, what they want, what they think... They are not the sole creation of any one author. Each writer on the show lends them a part of who they are and crafts their next lines and actions based on their own interpretation of what was written and performed before... And then the actor too crafts their next delivery of a line or action using all of that previous input.
This is terrible because we can never say definitely, with irrefutable evidence of the fact: "This is true."
And it's great because no one can ever say definitely, with irrefutable evidence of the fact: "That is untrue."
We, all of us, can only ever reach or fail to reach a majority opinion.
TV characters are truly the Schrodinger's cat of fictional characterizations.