Ironlady
Platinum Member
Yes to all the great points you brought up! And yeah I'm not sure about Rubens sister. she was definitely an odd duck. Very codependent and her relationship with her brother was one of emotional incest really. When she says that she felt half of herself was cut off from her that's how I felt about it but that's how I felt when I left my abusers....although I am unaware of how the twin dynamic feels which is what she may have been referring to.
I relate to the rape but it's the mental rape more than anything. I was raised in a family cult and my father had me brainwashed under mind control up until a few years ago. The sadistic nature of it I could relate to on so many levels including feeling empathy (and how it relates to my own empathy for my father). for Kilgrave when he was a little boy. My father was blinded at 16 and suffered trauma which helped fuel his madness and narcissistic tendencies. He is very sauve and manipulative. Made you think things were your own ideas.. Gas lighting, hoovering, you name it. And he always twisted things around and minimized his actions and turned it in you. I was like Jessica. If my father said do this. I did it even if everything in my head screamed no. But I started fighting back and I cut ties with him. But his absence doesn't take away the trauma or the fear and when your raised like that you are left with no sense of who your are.
So this aspect of the show really hit home with me as well as the flashbacks and panic attack moments. Very well done. I truly appreciate the thought awareness and effort they put into the show.
