Talk:Joy Mercer/@comment-4830621-20120513140311/@comment-4077740-20120626142709

To be honest, I only started liking Joy in the season 2 finale. I did feel a bit bad for her in the beginning of season 2, until she got a bit out of control. I agree with Corbierr on most of the points. Everyone did bad things in the house ( I mean, we all do, because we're human) but I think the main reason why Joy got so much hate was because of her blog on Nina. Just to clarify a few things, what Joy did was uncalled for considering she knew nothing about Nina. It was basically cyber-bullying. What made it all the more worse, was the fact that Nina has SO much pressure on her AND her Gran was dying. If I remember correctly, in season 1 everyone got a bit sick of Patricia always being mean to Nina. This is the same case with Joy, except majority of the house knew what Nina was going through. They knew about her Gran and most of them knew about the mystery. I think it was completely realistic and understandable when they started shutting Joy off after what she did to Nina. ( and considering this was all because of her crush on Fabian made it all the more pathetic). I'm not saying that ignoring Joy and being mean to her was right, because an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, but I'm saying it's understandable, and it was to be expected.

That being said, I do think SOME of the Joy hate was unnecessary, but I can understand WHY. Seeing Joy constantly push Patricia away when she tried to apologize, and lying about the article to Jerome and Eddie made it hard for me to sympathize with her. She was digging herself in a deeper whole, and that pissed me off.

But let's be real for a second. In real life, if somone did what Joy did to another person just because she thought that someone stole her "boyfriend" that was never her boyfriend and never had romantic feelings for her, wouldn't you shut that person off? Nina has no parents, she was treated badly by Patricia in season 1, she had A LOT of pressure on her in season 1 and season 2 to resolve the mystery. If she didn't find the mask, her friends and Gran (her only parent guardian) would be gone. On top of that someone wrote an article on her saying how she was a bad person. In real life ( and I'm being completely realistic) someone might have attempted suicide because of all this.

Now, this is just how I see it. I like Joy a whole lot more after she realized what she did was wrong and even helped Nina to find the mask. When she's not chasing after Fabian, it's like she's a completely different character, and I like that.