Thank you so much for saying all of this! I thought I was the only one who cringed through this entire episode and felt like I needed a shower afterward. It was clearly a case of the writers using the plot to get their own views out there, instead of serving the characters and the story.
As you said, some things didn't make sense. For one thing, I realize this is Hollywood and apparently people there have never darkened the doors of a genuine, Christian church. But good grief, is the idea of being a virgin until marriage (whether from the start or "secondary virginity") really something so bizarre and foreign and laughable to them? Just because someone chooses to be abstinent doesn't make them a freak. It doesn't mean they are socially awkward. It doesn't mean you've got a neon sign on you blinking out, "YES, I AM A WEIRDO BECAUSE I'M NOT HAVING SEX!" It's a personal decision that people make and unless you know them or ask them, you'd never even know! I've known many people who actually do take the Bible seriously and strive to live by it, but they didn't act or talk like these people did!
And the situation with Dean and the former porn star was just ridiculously over the top. As you pointed out, she went through all this trouble to get away from her past and make a new life for herself. So why would she:
1) Be "counseling" men? I am not familiar with groups specific to this type of issue, but I do know that women counseling men and men counseling women would simply NEVER BE ALLOWED, because of the obvious temptations! I cannot imagine a church group where this would happen.
2) Keep one of her old videos so easily accessible?
3) Give in so incredibly easily?! I know Dean's hot and all, but come on! Up to that point, it seemed like she was serious about changing her life. It wasn't played like she had only been pretending at the church group and was really still a porn star at heart. I just...
Anyway, I'm glad to not be alone. I adore this show but this ep was unbearable. And even with some of the questionable things they've done in the past, I don't think I've ever said that before. Not to this extent.
Re: 9.08 Rock and a Hard Place
Thank you so much for saying all of this! I thought I was the only one who cringed through this entire episode and felt like I needed a shower afterward. It was clearly a case of the writers using the plot to get their own views out there, instead of serving the characters and the story.
As you said, some things didn't make sense. For one thing, I realize this is Hollywood and apparently people there have never darkened the doors of a genuine, Christian church. But good grief, is the idea of being a virgin until marriage (whether from the start or "secondary virginity") really something so bizarre and foreign and laughable to them? Just because someone chooses to be abstinent doesn't make them a freak. It doesn't mean they are socially awkward. It doesn't mean you've got a neon sign on you blinking out, "YES, I AM A WEIRDO BECAUSE I'M NOT HAVING SEX!" It's a personal decision that people make and unless you know them or ask them, you'd never even know! I've known many people who actually do take the Bible seriously and strive to live by it, but they didn't act or talk like these people did!
And the situation with Dean and the former porn star was just ridiculously over the top. As you pointed out, she went through all this trouble to get away from her past and make a new life for herself. So why would she:
1) Be "counseling" men? I am not familiar with groups specific to this type of issue, but I do know that women counseling men and men counseling women would simply NEVER BE ALLOWED, because of the obvious temptations! I cannot imagine a church group where this would happen.
2) Keep one of her old videos so easily accessible?
3) Give in so incredibly easily?! I know Dean's hot and all, but come on! Up to that point, it seemed like she was serious about changing her life. It wasn't played like she had only been pretending at the church group and was really still a porn star at heart. I just...
Anyway, I'm glad to not be alone. I adore this show but this ep was unbearable. And even with some of the questionable things they've done in the past, I don't think I've ever said that before. Not to this extent.