I finally watched the episode today and really enjoyed it; I don't think Nish, Claire and Fern are portrayed as any less complex than the Greeks, where apparently participating in a sorority allies you with a fraternity accused of sexual assault.
It only occurred to me today that RT, et al. may have been influenced by a series of events at my southern california alma mater two years ago, where a series of real racially-divisive occurrences inspired a professor to stage a hate crime by vandalizing her own car: [link] Apologies if this was pointed out elsewhere.
We had something like that happen at my alma mater too--a kid sent himself hate mail, to point out some ohter stuff that had been going on on campus. But hate mail != rape. And one kid != conspiracy.
I've been thinking about the fakery and the assault on Chip. don't think Nish, Claire, Fern, (or combination thereof) raped Chip. I think the rapist raped Chip. I think Claire's rape may be the only faked one. I still think the rapist is Moe.
There's only one thing bothering me: Mercer's alibi. I'm pretty sure his show ran 'til 11, and Parker was raped around 11:45, right? Are we just taking this as a continuity error?
i'm on the Moe train too. simply because of the new promo and the shoes we're shown.
But if the rapist raped Chip, why the Roman-numeral date? Unless the rapist is what's her name (Petrelli?) who's gotten out of the mental hospital or whatever. Which would be...pulling something out of RT's ass, basically.
I really HOPE Claire's is the only faked rape, but still dont' really see the point, then--if there were actual rapes taking place, why fake one? And if there weren't...wtf??
question. the lampoon guys. who are they, exactly? is it an alternative paper on campus to the free press?
The faked rape, plotwise, is a McGuffin to throw us off....
But if the rapist raped Chip, why the Roman-numeral date? Unless the rapist is what's her name (Petrelli?) who's gotten out of the mental hospital or whatever. Which would be...pulling something out of RT's ass, basically.
Maybe the rapist was trying to avert suspicion from himself?
I can't buy that there was only one fake rape. Claire, Nish, and Fern all looked too guilty at Veronica's assertion that they faked more. They would have protested if it was only one, I'd think.
But if the rapist raped Chip, why the Roman-numeral date? Unless the rapist is what's her name (Petrelli?) who's gotten out of the mental hospital or whatever. Which would be...pulling something out of RT's ass, basically.
Maybe the rapist was trying to avert suspicion from himself?
So the rapist knew about Patrice? Or figured it out because he hadn't raped Claire? I dunno. Unless the rapist wanted someone to figure out that Claire's rape wasn't his. I just don't think that would be his method.
At this point I am assuming that Claire's assault was the only faked one.
