Board Thread:COMPLETE BULLSHIT Forum/@comment-130.126.72.213-20140318220905/@comment-98.115.24.221-20140319031625

LadyX wrote:

98.115.24.221 wrote:

Paul.rea wrote: 5. The Nogitsune was playing on her insecurities. It's not unbelievable that, in her head, Scott might blame her for driving his father away.

I don't know why people throw out the simple stuff that we all have in our everyday lives when looking at the plot for this show.

I don't believe that y'all have NEVER built something up in your head to be waaaay worse than it actually was - that an outside observer would look at and go "no big deal."

Scott's dad was horrified at what he had done. In his mind he almost killed his son and, through his irresponsible, careless and selfish actions, ended his marriage. This is his defining moment. The biggest thing in his life ever. He would never imagine that his son would see it differently.

While Scott's mom felt she was justified in sending her husband away, she felt the guilt of depriving her son of his father and that weighs on her conscience as a "Really Big Deal" even though if she asked Scott he would say he never blamed her.

I'm actually confused by the lack of understanding on this point. Folks on here have no problem understanding Stiles' "eyes of a child" guilt that he is somehow responsible for his mom's death but don't get that the same thing is going on in adult heads too. I get your point, Paul. I understand the thought process behind Raphael leaving and Melissa wanting him gone. However, I don't understand the point of making it some huge ass secret. What's the harm in telling Scott that his dad made a bad drunken decision and was a danger to him (Scott)? To me, they made a mountain out of a small hill. It's his first kid, every parent makes a mistake at some point. But not every parent drunkenly tosses/knocks their kid down the stairs. Right, but everyone takes to parenting differently. This could also relate to someone who accidentally got a little too rough with their child out of frustration. But this is getting away from my main point, which is questioning the secrecy over a mistake. I'm not judging the thought process of Raphael or his parenting,  I'm judging the ridiculousness of the writers making it out to be a secret as if no parent was ever a danger to their kid before. It's not like he willingly threw Scott down the stairs while sober, it was an accident while he was under the influence of alcohol. And to me, this could've been explained to Scott years ago when I'm sure he asked his mom, " Why did dad leave us?"