It doesn't matter how many people she fucked, she only consented to being filmed because she was manipulated into it, she CERTAINLY didn't say yes to putting it up on the internet.
I completely agree. Honestly this was my biggest complaint with Lydia's story arc: the fact that they were clearly attempting to tie in her party girl behavior as some sort of catalyst for this crucial plot twist. From what I've seen, none of Lydia's party girl antics directly led to her being manipulated by George-- she was an easy target for him because she was insecure, not because of her partying habits. The stigma that clings to women who like to party often has always really bothered me-- Lydia likes to party. She likes to get drunk and flirt with guys. We have zero evidence of her being unsafe in any of those situations, even in Lizzie's biased observations.
I do like the fact that they wanted to keep the scandal sexual in some way, like the way it was in the book, but you're right-- medical drama (like an overdose or something similar) would have been much more believable in this case, and in my opinion, you'd be able to place more of the blame on Lydia's carelessness, which I think is what the writers had originally intended on doing.
She likes to get drunk and flirt with guys. We have zero evidence of her being unsafe in any of those situations, even in Lizzie's biased observations.
I think we have one line that implied Lydia wasn't good about using protection, but yeah, there is this general disapproval of her choice to party that's problematic.
I do like the fact that they wanted to keep the scandal sexual in some way, like the way it was in the book, but you're right-- medical drama (like an overdose or something similar) would have been much more believable in this case, and in my opinion, you'd be able to place more of the blame on Lydia's carelessness, which I think is what the writers had originally intended on doing.
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I completely agree. Honestly this was my biggest complaint with Lydia's story arc: the fact that they were clearly attempting to tie in her party girl behavior as some sort of catalyst for this crucial plot twist. From what I've seen, none of Lydia's party girl antics directly led to her being manipulated by George-- she was an easy target for him because she was insecure, not because of her partying habits. The stigma that clings to women who like to party often has always really bothered me-- Lydia likes to party. She likes to get drunk and flirt with guys. We have zero evidence of her being unsafe in any of those situations, even in Lizzie's biased observations.
I do like the fact that they wanted to keep the scandal sexual in some way, like the way it was in the book, but you're right-- medical drama (like an overdose or something similar) would have been much more believable in this case, and in my opinion, you'd be able to place more of the blame on Lydia's carelessness, which I think is what the writers had originally intended on doing.
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I think we have one line that implied Lydia wasn't good about using protection, but yeah, there is this general disapproval of her choice to party that's problematic.
I do like the fact that they wanted to keep the scandal sexual in some way, like the way it was in the book, but you're right-- medical drama (like an overdose or something similar) would have been much more believable in this case, and in my opinion, you'd be able to place more of the blame on Lydia's carelessness, which I think is what the writers had originally intended on doing.
That would have been SO much better.