User blog comment:Corbierr/Things about the show that drive you nuts./@comment-5450362-20140311045546/@comment-4816103-20140405035621

Bwahaha, those were also golden.

Yes yes yes. She could have easily shone even in her other roles...but writers, IDK, either they really just knew she'd steal the show, or they honestly just screwed up in writing her and they had believed they were doing her justice. This is why I got annoyed with KT a bit when I first heard of her, because I was like, "Wait a minute, why does she get to be a Sibuna leader too? Why not Patricia? Hello?" I still don't fully understand the logic behind this whole thing, it's not even fully to do with Patricia, I just don't get why KT, even being the important character she was, got to be Eddie's sidekick when he had characters like Patricia or Fabian to work with instead. Characters who were not brand new, who he had history...and a relationship...with. But...yeah...that plot would have worked well. Or at LEAST having Patricia's jealousy actually become a signal that something should change, like, more than just her not wanting them together, actively expressing how Eddie only wanted KT for a partner and not her.

The magic of mind sharing at it's finest.

Of course, her jealousy is so ingrained in her- so intermixed with the rest of her emotions- that it comes out as a natural response due to her nature. If she wasn't jealous, there'd be questions like, "If she was such good friends with these guys before, and cares about her friends so much, why is she perfectly content with them avoiding her?" It's just a natural extension of her good traits...her traits that make her heroic. I say she's Anti-Hero in the way that she's not squeaky-clean like the others are, but she's definately a good guy...so she's just the sort of hero that does get weighed down by their flaws. Maybe the writers never let her get glorified or demonized...because they knew that, if they made her flaws lessened, people would be wondering where her fire and stubborness went...and if they intensified her flaws, they'd be wondering why she suddenly turned on the friends she loves so much. Other characters, at least it seems a bit plausible why their traits would change, because you just think, "Oh, she's just hurt and jealous," or, "Oh, he's just trying to be a better person now," but with Trixie, her traits were all so deeply ingrained into who she was that elevating or de-elevating her on the morality scale just might seem a little too...off. Because for her, like, she gets hurt and jealous, but it wouldn't ever take away from the fact that she's a good friend, and she can try and be a nicer person but it does not change the fact that she's more lone wolf in spirit.

In other words, maybe they kept her static on the morality scale because they knew she was in a perfect position where she was...the position that made sense for her, without feeling too contrived.

I do wish that she did at least get to play victim though, because let's face it, it's never her, even if she does nothing wrong she's the one who is somehow at fault for something or has to be the one to learn the lesson or be treated like the bad guy...because apparently it's fair for her to have to come and basically beg for Joy to help them...ignoring that Joy never once apologized for hurting her. It's like the writers were like, "Oh, it's okay, Joy just wanted to be accepted, Patricia totally knows that and Joy should not have to apologize because she's nice now." Umm...what. And no compliments either...well, very rare ones, Amber did tell her she did a good job making a fake note when Nina had disappeared, but other than that...Patricia has no best friend anymore, let's face it, Jade even sort of admitted it but tried to consider the option of Alfie and Fabian...but she has nobody who is looking out for her. MAYBE they want to go for the idea that Patricia can look out for herself, but...if that's the case, they screwed up by giving her a lot of insecurities.

Exactly...With Jerome it was love, with Joy it was a crush...when Jeroy happened, later on, they both put the other first...or at least, wanted to...but they couldn't, because Jerome had to protect himself and Joy was looking out for Mara. Interesting development for both of them, really, with how Jerome honestly just wanted to repent and let Mara win so she can move on, and Joy just wanted Jerome AND Mara to both be happy...so neither were thinking of themselves until the end, when they deserved to think about themselves. Hmm...

Yeah...IDK what really excited me about S2, maybe it was just "More HOA, yay for life :D" but I was determined that there might be Patrome. At least a little bit. I was interested in Moy, too, yeah, I guess that as long as Patrome was okay the others could do whatever. I think, at least at the Nick boards, Patrome was actually more shipped than Jara at the time, the sheer amount of Patrome fics were incredible, and my own Patrome fanfics were read by everyone. I didn't want to accept Peddie, I even groaned with Eddie showed up because I knew what was coming, but I warmed up to it...Jara, IDK, I did have to admit that those two had great development and potential between them, but I had to burn that fact to ship Patrome. Jeroy...well, since it was introduced as a romance in the same episode Patrome set up their date, I was like, "nope, it's Patrome, get out of here Joy," but then that kiss happened and I was like..."Sold. Sorry, Patrome...but this kiss..."

We'd be top of the class. Scratch that, we'd be teaching. Hahaha, and what's even better is that most of this comes out as I'm writing, I don't know what I'm going to start saying until I actually start saying it.