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gildedorange

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  1. I am so glad I found this thread. This episode was trash and I am even more upset they continued the trash story line in subsequent episodes. What made it trash was 100% the character assassination they wrote into Garcia’s role. She absolutely betrayed her brother because he asked her to read his statement and she agreed, carried his words up to the podium, and proceeded to offer her own statement. She invalidated his voice in a place where he could not object (when he expressed being upset when he heard Garcia veering off from his statement, he was silenced by one of the members of the review board). The *mature* and *considerate* thing Garcia could have done is tell her brother about her change of heart BEFORE the hearing and given him the choice to read his own statement. Not stealing his only opportunity from him. Then after Garcia steals the voice of someone in pain, the cast spends time telling her how “she did the right thing” and how her brother will come around. She deserves to be shunned because she doesn’t even recognise how awful she was enough to give a proper apology. She didn’t even act like a loyal sister, valuing the sad feelings of your parents’ murderer over the pain of *all* of your siblings combined?? It was so gross. Also, if you look at it through a racial lens, it looks even worse- a white woman centring and valuing her own feelings and guilt along with valuing the sad feelings of a random white convict over and to the detriment of a man of colour’s, who she claims she loves as a brother. Just trash. Many people are also commenting on the length of the sentence, but a reminder that the drunk driver killed TWO people, both of the Garcia family’s parents. That’s significant and repercussions should be expected. Sentences are usually worse for murdering two people versus murdering just one person.
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