All of the above save (b) have been rectified. She doesn't have traumatic memories of it, or any memories of it, at all.
Except for the knowledge that Duncan had sex with her when she was too impaired to consent, AND while *he* still thought she was his sister.
Duncan's primary concern was that he'd committed an act of incest. Once that was ruled out, his primary objection had been rectified.
Except for the fact that he had sex with Veronica even though she was too impaired to consent, AND at the time that he had sex with her, he still thought she was his sister.
That's why Duncan and Veronica being back together skeeves me hugely.
Except for the knowledge that Duncan had sex with her when she was too impaired to consent, AND while *he* still thought she was his sister.
But Duncan was impaired as well. Though I agree that their being back together is skeevey.
Except for the knowledge that Duncan had sex with her when she was too impaired to consent, AND while *he* still thought she was his sister.
But I think that was resolved to her satisfaction, once she realized he too was drugged. Undrugged Duncan wouldn't have done that to her. In fact, undrugged Duncan broke up with her to make sure that didn't happen.
I'm not skeeved by them being back together, because I read a lot of V.C. Andrews, and watched a lot of soap operas. Oh-no-my-lover-might-be-my-sibling gets old. If they're not related, I don't skeeve. I would have skeeved if they were together with him thinking they were siblings and not disclosing it.
I *did* skeeve seriously at Logan's line to Duncan in
Wrath of Con.
It was after Lilly kissed Veronica, and Duncan made some sort of remark about his sister kissing his girlfriend, and Logan said something along the lines of, "Oh yeah, like that's not on the rotation."
But Duncan was impaired as well.
But being impaired didn't erase the knowledge that she was possibly his sister. It just erased his self-control.
But being impaired didn't erase the knowledge that she was possibly his sister. It just erased his self-control.
Right, but Veronica and Duncan did not have any of the natural incest tabboo feelings toward one another, because they hadn't grown up thinking of each other as siblings.
It's skeevy as hell that he both had sex with her when he thought she was his sister, and then had to live with the idea that he'd slept with his sister. It is also understandable that he would be physically attracted to her still (I'm talking about at the time of the party), and that when drugged with an inhibition removing drug, the parts of his brain that would normally be turned off by her would be asleep on the job.
I think it restricts it to a misdemeanor, Cindy, from my reading--as opposed to a possible felony. I know in MI my male cousins had these ages, etc drilled into them while they were still underage (it's 17 there) to get them to not sleep with girls their age.
P-C, where are you, darn it.
I was at work!
He's probably off watching Farscape.
I just watched "Nerve" last night OMG. I've been waiting all day to get home so I can watch "The Hidden Memory"!
And I pretty much agree with Couch Baron on the rape resolution.
OK, that "VM is not feminist" thing drove me batty. Partly because of the writing style, partly becuase I disagreed with their "facts"...I did NOT get from the resolution last year that Veronica wasn't raped. I just got that it was no longer something she could get "justice" for, but...
Thing is, technically, yes, Veronica was raped. She was in a state where she was unable to give consent (and god knows, freshman year of college they drilled THAT one into the guys, re: getting a girl drunk!). HOWEVER, I think that if she'd woken up the next morning and Duncan were still there, and was like "oh, fuck, we were really drunk"? She probably would've thought it was horribly unfortunate, and been pissed and so on, but not classified it as rape. Certainly wouldn't have gone to the police. Since she did think of it as rape, and kept thinking that for a year, well...even though she eventually found out what the story was, it's still fucked with her psyche (plus all the other shit that happened before/after, of course), and made her a fun, fucked-up character to watch on TV. Yay for that.
This is similar to how I find Logan hot and awesome and fascinating on my TV screen, but would hate him and run away in real life. I'm all for television sending good messages and not subtly enforcing racism or sexism, but...at the same time, TV is NOT REAL LIFE.
I just watched "Nerve" last night OMG.
Heee! And Froon hooks another one.
Beware the chair!
So, does the show return tonight and no one is mentioning it?
