User blog comment:Corbierr/Things about the show that drive you nuts./@comment-5450362-20140311045546/@comment-4816103-20140404192214

That video was the best thing ever. I lost it by "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus"

So true...There is a ton they could do with a character like her, more than just l/h drama and jealousy, even more than her first season mystery awesomeness, she had a lot of potential but the writers gave most of the good roles to other characters. She was a sinner, but didn't get to do too much outside of torment KT. She got to be a descendant, and that turned out to mean very little outside of ceremony preforming and becoming a way for the show to deliver random exposition. She got to be the girlfriend of the Osirian...and they only played up the jealous ex part of that, with KT getting to be Eddie's sidekick, which Patricia could have easily been. Even in season 1, she got to be half of the mystery...but the only one who was really seen as a hero was Nina. Bleh.

Thing I just noticed with all of Patricia's jealousy is...she's not that bad. Okay, she gets a bit obsessed, and mean, but...well...let's look at what everyone does when jealous. Nina...flips out and considers Fabian a traitor. Amber...gets into a war with her former best friend. Joy...starts to go after anyone in her way, and anyone not in her way. Mara...yeah. KT and Willow are the only ones who have not exhibited wild acts of jealousy among the girls, and Patricia? She gets obsessive and angry...and that's it. Anything else she does is just her expressing anger. She doesn't actively try and ruin a relationship, and while she may get angry, she at least admits that if they're broken up, Eddie could go after KT if he wanted to because it wasn't her say, and when she was talking to KT, it was mean spirited, but nothing to the extent the other girls have done. So...despite how her plot has become "jealous ex"...she has a much lighter version of jealousy than others do, even if she too gets a little crazy over it, she won't cross any lines. Which means that her biggest flaw by season 3 isn't even that horrible by comparison of other girls who, despite playing these roles for less time, did worse things.

And the pointing out bad traits thing, yeahhh, that happens way too often for her, other characters have gotten glorified, I think maybe all of them at least once in any of the seasons, but they just allowed her to remain where she was- in the "Totally-a-hero-but-too-flawed-and-jealous" area. Not that she was ever completely demonized either, even in early season 1 they tried to make her seem sympathetic with her search for Joy. She's always been in the middle, but they just don't ever try and make anything out of her virtues.

I know. *Here's some money, buy more lamps* Yes...they were even matching in the whole "Sneaky anti-hero loves the (mostly) squeaky clean nerd". But where Jerome was willing to stay out of the way and let her be happy, and put her first, Joy went to the opposite end and put herself first before Fabian until the very end.

Mara was much nicer in season 2, of course, and then turned terrible in season 3...but I still have to wonder if she'd have done the same in season 2 if it were Mick who had cheated and not Jerome, because part of me thinks that she would have. Of course, in season 2, she was definately a much better character over all, much more rounded and likable, and in season 3 she sort of derailed, so I don't really know what to make of her right now...except that she was a victim of poor character planning.

Haha, I know what you mean. I had decided that Patrome would be canon and Joy would be with Eddie. I was stubborn, even after the trailers, because it's my OTP and ain't nothing gonna tear it away from me, you hear me? And yeah, things like that help to give hope...like, "Everyone else was paired up, Patrome and Jeddie is the only way to not destroy relationships and make everyone happy," (Well okay there is also Peddie and Jeroy but I was too stubborn to accept Peddie as  thing and Jeroy was non-existant back then) you know what I'm saying?

Look at what we can do just by discussing whatever happens to be on our minds. You know, these sort of analyses the type of things people do for thesis papers...where they have a topic and have to work really hard. What people do for grades that take long hours of research and development, we can just sort of blurt out off the top of our heads...haha, take that school, I don't need you guys to teach me how to do these things.