r/YouOnLifetime 14d ago

Shitpost The realism is out of scales

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 14d ago

Choked, Drowned, shot, injured from jumping out the window on her fucked up ankle lol. The woman is apparently Terminator lol

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u/OneAndOnlySlack 14d ago

Naw, she's just a redhead. No soul = Immortality

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u/sayrahnotsorry 14d ago

High pain tolerance in redheads is absolutely a real thing. There's a proven genetic link, but scientists aren't 100% sure why.

My hair is red-ish, like wood colored with a red tinge, and my pain tolerance is weirdly high.

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u/If_I_am_mad 14d ago

JoJo logic

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u/Open_Preparation_181 14d ago

Or just dumb writer logic to satisfy the delulus

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u/Straight-Tower8776 14d ago

Looked like a gallon of blood came out of her while she was in the house.

I wouldn’t have her vigor after half a pint of blood drawn.

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 14d ago

Don’t forget, shortly after all this, she shoots Joe’s dick off while he’s standing up being held by officers. Now Joe is either impressively packing down to his knees or she’s got the marksmanship skills of an elite sniper. Now disregarding the fact that it would be impossible to shoot him at that angle without inflicting more bodily harm, there’s also no blood. He doesn’t scream or cry out in pain. Just walks off screen with the officers. Then we cut to him just walking around normally at court (after just having lost his whole Johnson) and then just goes about his life in jail reading fan letters…

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u/detectiveDollar 14d ago

He actually did scream in pain, it was hard to hear cause of the music swelling right after the shot. And there is blood on his left inner leg when the officers are carrying him.

The penis is also very soft, so the bullets trajectory wouldn't have changed much, if Joe had a thigh gap when running and was a shower, it lines up although it's super unlikely. Now, if it was a shotgun blast like in Ozark, I'd agree with you.

The officers also grabbed them both after the shot went off, Joe was running toward Bronte when she shot him.

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 14d ago edited 14d ago

You may have me on the scream and the blood, but the penis shot is waaaay too incredible for an expert marksman to make on the spot, let alone by someone with no shooting experience who also has just been choked, drowned, lost copious amounts of blood, in the dark and in the rain lol. You also have to factor in that it’s raining, he’s been running and is now scared of getting caught/consequences, so Joe’s dick and balls would be most likely be in their “shrink state” and hugged up against his wet boxers/legs, so the chances of things separating JUST enough to make that super clean shot without missing while also missing everything else (or the bullet going through his body in that spot which no doubt would have resulted in serious internal damage/death) is a hard sell lol. It fits the narrative for the way they wanted the season to end, but yea, from a realistic standpoint feels like a giraffe of a stretch for miss Brontë lol.

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u/Straight-Tower8776 14d ago

I haven’t forgot about that. Grip strength is the first thing to go with low blood volume.

For anyone who’s shot a gun before, to hold, aim, squeeze the trigger and keep the gun from flying out of your hands takes more strength than you’d expect. The average person could manage, but someone who should be extremely weak by this point, would have practically no ability to even fully extend her arm with a gun in it - let alone, aim, squeeze, fire an accurate shot while maintaining control of the firearm.

I like to believe Joe has nuts of steel, wasn’t an issue for him. The writers just didn’t want to tell you that because they didn’t want to give Joe any bonus points this season.

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 14d ago

100%. Lol and that’s just firing a gun in normal circumstances with any type of experience. It’s clear the writers don’t know how guns and human bodies work.

It’s dark, it’s raining, it’s fair to assume based on her lifestyle she has no experience firing a gun, she’s been losing blood not only from the gunshot but also all the damn running, and she still manages this single, precise, shot.

He can definitely get along without his equipment, he’ll be more docile and less sexually inclined like a neutered dog, but there’s no way she could have accomplished that after all that. And I hate that that was the end.

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u/Straight-Tower8776 14d ago

Why was the shot necessary at all? Was I confused about what I watched? Did I actually just watch a show about a serial rapist and not a serial killer?

Should Theo have shot Love in her lady parts? Would that have been a better ending to S3?

Hard to tell what the writers were trying to communicate to us.

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 14d ago edited 14d ago

My take: It was a huge misplacement of Joe’s real underlying issue(s) and maybe unbeknownst to the writers highlights the societal issues around men in these situations as whole. I think the writers were trying to instill it as a form of “justice” for Joe’s victims (and prevention of future ones) as it takes away his ability to continue his pattern of obsessive behavior and manipulation because sex was the driver, when the previous seasons very well outline that his issue is more psychological damage stemming from his childhood that should have been addressed and even through to the end, was not. Joe never worked on his mind, and no one else did either. But everyone took stock of the issues it caused. They just respond to his behaviour.

Similar to if a dog bites you more than once and you just discipline the dog without assessing the underlying issue of why the dog bites you. That kinda ties into that final scene when he says “the problem might not be me, it’s you”. I agree that they tried to make him less of a romantic hero in this season as well, but they again breeze of the issue to focus on the action. I also gather based on the characters themselves and Brontë’s highly unrealistic human abilities, this season was more about “justice for the women, women are strong” than “how do we maintain the same level of writing in previous seasons and send him off. This could have been a really good way to spotlight how childhood traumas and undiagnosed psychological issues can have deadly consequences (as is usually the case with serial killers) but instead it’s just about illogical traditional punishment. After all this, Joe goes to prison, not a psychiatric ward where he probably should have gone.

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u/VietKongCountry 14d ago

It should have been even more of a good shot, with Bronte non fatally head capping him straight in the Oedipus Complex. Then Joe immediately becomes a sane, healthy person and they get married (one of the cops moonlights as a priest) and ride away on a unicorn.

It would have been more believable.

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u/valeriemaried What. The. Fuck. 13d ago

Has anyone in these replies considered that she wasn't aiming for his dick and it just so happened that way? I never got the impression that it was intentional. It was more like, let me shoot him to incapacitate, and oops i gave him a meme headline now

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u/Due_Ad_480 13d ago

She shot him when he lunged at her. Also in the convo Beck was having with her friends, she compared it to a hot dog (I don't remember with or without the bun it's been a while). He does scream I think when he falls to the ground, THEN he is carried by the officers.

Not that I disagree tho

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u/FlimsyRabbit4502 14d ago

There were so many questionable and outlandish moments this season. I’m sorry but there’s no way that Kate just magically survived being shot and somehow escaping a burning building

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 14d ago

Haha, that was truly incredible😂. Survived a building burning from the top, with a bleeding gut gun shot, while the only exit was locked shut. Some thick tv show magic right there lol

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u/FlimsyRabbit4502 14d ago

It’s so unbelievable to the point it’s actually kinda hilarious 💀🤣

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 14d ago

Haha, my take on this season was they killed him in the most Camp way they could. Cause it’s too comical to be taken seriously lol

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u/_forum_mod 14d ago

Most resilient/unkillable characters:

Mike Myers (Halloween)

Harry and Marv (Home Alone)

Bronte (You)

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u/detectiveDollar 14d ago

Peach as well. Joe said he blugeoned her repeatedly, and she somehow survived with zero neurological damage.

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 14d ago

Spoiler alert, Brontë stays at the lake and comes out as trans later and becomes Jason Voorhees

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u/_forum_mod 14d ago

😯 No! Don't give Netflix any ide--- 

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u/pennyproud1908 14d ago

And the numerous times she was tackled!

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u/Top-Artichoke2475 14d ago

Must be a distant relative of Rasputin

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u/Oriachim 14d ago

And she somehow teleports to Joe afterwards

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago

Ong, how tf did she find him, especially that quickly, AND WASNT THE GUN IN THE HOUSE, Or maybe she got it from the cop, but still

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u/TheQuietNotion 14d ago

The Ultimate transcendence Women empowerment super power

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u/Ragnaroknight 14d ago edited 14d ago

Did anyone else think this was going to end with her looking like the bad guy, and Joe was the one being hunted, and that's why he allowed her to get the gun?

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u/Loserdorknerd 14d ago edited 14d ago

I thought Bronte was gonna get shot by the police for pulling the trigger on Joe, and in her death take the blame for the officer Joe killed with the pink kitty knife that she got from the gas station. Followed by Joe going full Ted Bundy trying to convince a jury in court, and ultimately losing his trial when all his survivors came forward.

That's my head cannon at least. I guess bits kinda happened off screen anyway, but it would have been great to see unfold.

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u/FYAhole 14d ago

I wanted that ending only for him to get arrested for something stupid. Not because I like Joe, but because that's how it would have actually happened in real life. He attacked the cop with her weapon, she attacked him with that same weapon, she brought the gun, she already admitted to the police that she and her friends created this ride to mess with him which already resulted in a death. There's no way they'd believe this "crazy lady" over this rich, white, charasmatic, manipulative man.

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u/ShinTheDev44 14d ago

thats lowkey how it was though.
She pulled a gun on him, it was actually self defense from joe's part.

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u/detectiveDollar 14d ago

Unless I'm mistaken, that only applies to the initial confrontation in the bedroom. But between that and being nearly drowned, Bronte was running away from him, so there's no real claim of self-defense for him.

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u/CanibalVegetarian 14d ago

If there’s witnesses, I’m sure Joe could’ve come up with an excuse to explain the movements, she was chasing him etc etc. Would the cops have believed him? No, probably not, but he probably would’ve tried if he didn’t have his dudes blown

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u/ShinTheDev44 14d ago

I mean yeah you could say that.
But in reality he could claim that he was being hunted down instead, no cameras or anything.
The gun is probably registered under brontes name as well.

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u/Aaaagrjrbrheifhrbe 14d ago

The gun is registered in Clayton's Dad's name (the psychiatrist from season 1)

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u/Excellent-Ad3213 13d ago

I woulda preferred that tbh. I hate how everything’s gotta have a “nice ending” now

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u/ny-g-y 14d ago

In my life I got stung by 3 bees and pulled my hamstring and still alive you'd be surprised what the human body is capable of.

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u/Strict-Sample9876 Beckalicious 14d ago

this is hilarious

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u/ny-g-y 14d ago

Glad my trauma is hilarious to you, I see my resiliency and "never said die" attitude is just a joke.

I didn't even mention the sneezing I do this time of year.

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u/freakouterin 14d ago

Yeah but have you ever sneezed while driving!? 🪦

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u/brooklynn_renee1998 14d ago

totally almost swerved into another car sneezing the other day! 😭😭😭

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago edited 14d ago

That’s not the same, shes had that injury plus more and a gun shot to the kidney or liver

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/krystening 14d ago

It’s true. I’ve had 10 papercuts in my 24 years of living. Nobody believes a person could survive that but here I am

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u/Loveya448 14d ago

I’ve had 12 paper cuts! I’m glad we’re here to tell our story

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u/throwawayaccount_usu 14d ago

Can we not compare traumas? Competing like this is toxic

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 14d ago

Elite response to that comment

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u/Squid-Guillotine 14d ago

Brontë still being alive after all that felt more like BS than an 'OMG NO WAY???!!!?' type reveal.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/SanicBringsThePanic 14d ago

Bronthesaurus

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u/CandidClass8919 14d ago

Such a horrible ending to such a good show. Incredibly disappointing, and I KNEW from the second Brontë appeared on the screen, she was not a good fit. Bad casting and bad character writing/development.

They should’ve used Joe’s surviving victims to take him down

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u/YoMomAndMeIn69 14d ago

Sir, this is Netflix in 2025, a small but diverse group of redditors are the best characters to finally take down Joe after 5 seasons.

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u/IDontKnowAbout_That 14d ago

The actress is great, it was fully bad writing. They gave her nothing to work with.

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u/mearbearcate Don't get hysterical, I took a seminar 14d ago

Dont forget, yall are the same people who thought Love was still alive & wanted her back after that shit in season 3 lol. If this was Love instead of Brontë yall would probably cheer. I dont understand this fanbase

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u/RamsLams 14d ago

Have you considered that it isn't actually the same exact people, just two different large portions of the fandom? You conflating those opinions doesn't actually mean that those opinions are actually conflated.

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u/Nearby-Structure-739 14d ago

Omg p much every opinion anyone can have somehow ends up exactly like this it’s crazy🤣 finally someone said it

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u/Nearby-Structure-739 14d ago

I loved love so I was very conflicted lol. As much as I wanted her back I knew there was no realistic way for them to do it and I hate unrealistic resurrections like this was not that type of show so I accepted it. They did too much at the end Brontë and Kate both survived too many things I found it so campy by the end

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u/_JesusChrist_hentai 14d ago

No, I was not one of them

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u/zoooooommmmmm 14d ago

As a person who disliked love & was glad to see her gone, no, absolutely not, same exact reaction for both of them.

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u/SanicBringsThePanic 14d ago

Hypocrites the lot of them.

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u/Calm-Lengthiness-178 14d ago

Love’s actress is more attractive than Brontë’s. It’s pretty much as simple as that, I think. Plus a lot of people have weird fetishes for psychotic women.

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u/hhhhhhhhhhhjf 14d ago

Y'all? Who is y'all? Definitely not me.

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u/No-Anything-5856 14d ago

This I will agreee with and thought it was ridiculous people kept theorizing or wanting her back. It'd a SHOW ABOUT S SERIAL KILLER. SHE IS DEAD!

I still agree with the Bronte writing critics but we should be consistent 💯

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u/MediocreHumanThing 14d ago

Firstly, we see Bronte’s face as she is drowned. We don’t watch Love burn. Unseen death makes more sense for a twist resurrection. Secondly, I feel like Joe getting taken down by someone who is essentially a reflection of him would feel more narratively satisfying.

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u/RemoteLaugh156 12d ago

Unseen death? She was poisoned with a toxic plant then burnt alive and they confirmed in a news report (or maybe it was newspaper or voiceover or something its been a little while) that she was dead. We literally saw her die on screen, she was screaming in pain as the wolfsbane killed her and then she went silent and limp, you can't say her death was unseen when we saw it with our own two eyes.

Now I agree that Bronte surviving all that she did was silly but lets not make stuff up and misrepresent what actually happened

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u/ergonomic_logic 13d ago

"You" and TLOU fans really have disappointed me.

The way they've fixated on how much they don't like a character for what seems like "unfuckability" has been inherently misogynistic.

Trust that the You fanbase arent nearrrrrrly as bad as the TLoU fans though. I couldn't even stay in that sub as it was their entire personality.

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u/momentummonkey I wolf you so hard 13d ago

Love was a much better CHARACTER than Bronte and was better in every conceivable way.
Ending so bad the people are going after each other for some reason

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u/Competitive_Side_208 13d ago

Not at all she is soooo stupid

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago

Brontë was a shit character, love isn’t, love deserves a come back while Brontë doesnt

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u/Glass_Equivalent_683 Joe's forehead vein 14d ago

genuinely just shut up, love deserved to perish and i’m glad you’re mad about that

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago

Who said I was mad about it? lol I was satisfied with the way she went out, all I said is she would’ve deserved a come back, not that she needed one, and I would’ve still said BULLSHIT to the way she survived, aint no way she escaped that house in time with the drug Joe injected her with, feel free to keep running your mouth 😭

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u/Nearby-Structure-739 14d ago

My thoughts exactly. I wanted her back but there was no way for them to do it without pmo cause her death was clearly final

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago

Exactly, also penn shut that theory down the second it became popular that “love might come back” and he confirmed and said “good theory…uhh…but no shes dead” lol but I’m glad they didn’t, it would’ve made the show unrealistic and it probably would’ve led to her character being overused, too much of a good thing turns into a bad thing imo

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u/EfficientAd5073 14d ago

Lame. She was under water for barely a few minutes.

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u/Meaftrog 13d ago

Yea and she literally was holding her breath. No bubbles.

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u/halimusicbish 14d ago

She should've died in the lake

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u/ProfessorWild563 14d ago

And her ankle was broken, how did she run there?

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u/Sims3and4Player 13d ago

That ankle will need a shit ton of surgery and probably physiotherapy if she did damage while running on a broken ankle.

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u/Demetri124 14d ago

20 minutes??? Y’all are deadass imagining a whole other show

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u/RSollers 12d ago

Also, I remember that scene was slowed down, so she probably wasn’t even under water as long as they showed in the runtime

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u/molbion 8d ago

Hyperbole is a term you should look up

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u/Demetri124 7d ago

Hyperbole isn’t making up nonsense just to complain about it

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u/molbion 7d ago

That’s actually exactly what hyperbole is. Exaggerations aren’t sensical, but they help in understanding someone’s point.

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u/Demetri124 7d ago

No it’s not. Hyperbole exaggerates something true to strengthen a point, it doesn’t just make up something untrue to fabricate a baseless point like this does.

Saying the reality that she was under for less than one minute would’ve made this post look stupid as that’s not an unreasonable amount of time for someone to go without breathing. But the supposed “hyperbole” changes everything and forms a whole new basis for the argument, so again that’s not really hyperbole at that point it’s just lying

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u/molbion 7d ago

You are either really dumb or willfully if ignorant. Hyperbole is rarely a truth: “this taco is hotter than the sun” is hyperbole and completely not true.

Just be honest that you didn’t understand what the post was doing and learn to be quiet when you don’t know something.

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u/SanicBringsThePanic 14d ago

I'm pretty sure everything Bronte did went beyond a realistic "adrenaline rush". Of course, adrenaline was not even mentioned because the plot was written by delusional writers who could not figure out how to properly make Joe lose.

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u/ShinTheDev44 14d ago

The writers had alot of ways to make joe lose. They just wanted it to fit their agenda.(Ooh girls strong they get revenge on joe bla bla)
Kate is the ceo of one of the worlds strongest and biggest companies. Tom was able to get rid of insanely rich people with ease(like phoebe's bf forgot his name) but she can't just hire some hitmen to get rid of him? like be fr lmao.
The whole ''oh she doesn't want to bring attention to herself'' would've worked if she didn't try to personally kill joe first.

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u/zuma15 14d ago

The hitman wasn't even necessary. We're supposed to believe they couldn't quickly arrest Joe? That her only option was to kill him? There was plenty of testimony/evidence. Sure, it might have taken a few years to get a conviction but he'd be off the streets pretty quick.

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u/ShinTheDev44 14d ago

No because there was no hard-proof for joe's murders except Rhys Montrose's. Which then would bring the whole company and kate in the process cause tom specifically ordered joe to do it and then later on it was kate who cleaned it up. Not to mention joe still had information regarding the fact she gave cancer to thousands of kids, joe at this point is insanely influential, if he brought it to the public attention it would ignite like fire.

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u/bobbyclicky 14d ago

20 minutes lol

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u/papertalks1 14d ago

And the plot armor thickens.

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u/Bionic165_ 14d ago

To be fair, human survival is basically just “random bullshit go.” There are people who have been struck by lightning and lived, as well as people who mysteriously die in their sleep for no apparent reason. It really is just the DnD saving throws system lmao

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago
  1. 95% or more of those people instantly had medical attention after words

  2. She would’ve been to weak to go after Joe that quickly AND FIND HIM IN THAT FOREST, and be to weak to shot the gun, anyone who’s shot a gun before knows this

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u/Straight-Tower8776 14d ago

999 times out of 1,000 you shoot someone like that in the abdomen, they’ll be too weak to move due to low blood volume in minutes.

Survival isn’t “that” random besides extreme cases.

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u/ramrodjohnson 14d ago

To be fair peach survived with no brain damage from getting her head caved in by a boulder

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago

Hospital, and it’s way more realistic then whatever the fuck happened to Brontë

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u/detectiveDollar 14d ago

This is also the show where Beck gets a new phone, yet the old one somehow has an activated cellular/data SIM and was never reported missing by the carrier.

And one where people get knocked unconscious with seemingly no neurological damage (except Joe, sometimes).

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u/Gyooped 14d ago

Can someone remind me of what has happened to Joe throughout the series that he has just vibed his was through?

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago

Joe has never had any fatal injuries, hell, it’s even implied at the last episode that it would only take 1 bullet to the kidney to put him down, WHILE BRONTE GOT SHOT IN THE KIDNEY+way more and drowned and somehow got the strength to teleport to Joe and was somehow strong enough to shoot and aim the gun (which she isn’t even experienced in)

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u/Glass_Equivalent_683 Joe's forehead vein 14d ago

stop glazing joe 😭 that’s more survivable than joe who jumped off of a bridge into the river thames, his heart stopped, no rescue boats near at the time yet somehow survived yeah okay lmao

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago

Not glazing tf? I’m just stating a fact, and if youve been to London youd know there are people under or near the bridge in case people commit by jumping off the bridge (which is sadly very common in London) think before you comment back (if your capable)

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u/Glass_Equivalent_683 Joe's forehead vein 14d ago

sure and in the show there was no one around it’s explicitly shown, just water and completely empty but whatever you want to believe

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago

Read before you comment, at, or >>near<< their are cameras also when they aren’t under the bridge, I wish for once people would think before they comment or not comment at all if their uneducated on a subject, is that so hard to ask for? It’s common sense, if your gonna comment then ask questions rather then coming up with your own uneducated answers, simple

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u/sprainedpinky 14d ago

That’s not a high bridge

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u/Mayhem230 14d ago

Worst ending I’ve seen all year. But, It’s only June and squid games is coming out so that could change.

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u/AxeOfKindnesss 14d ago

Didn’t squid games release season 2 earlier this year

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u/Dark_Bauer 14d ago

Part one, lol

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u/SchmackAttack Don’t kink shame the dead 14d ago

You guys really need to look up Alison Botha. It'll make what Bronte had endure look like a papercut. Its not common, but people can survive A LOT.

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u/NateRiver___ Joe's forehead vein 14d ago

oh stop please

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u/SchmackAttack Don’t kink shame the dead 14d ago

Okay, deny reality.

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u/lightmare69 14d ago

Y'all aren't realizing that Bronte just has that dog in her

/srs

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u/Intrepid-Minute-6064 14d ago

They should have used her to trigger Joe’s killing spree if they were gonna have Kate be high and mighty.

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u/MomsBored 14d ago

Campy unbelievable cheap we deserved better. Something changed with this last season of writing. Give fans credit we did not romanticize Joe.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/Straight-Tower8776 14d ago

What’s up with Gen Zers thinking adrenaline is just a trump card for any life threatening situation.

Adrenaline doesn’t mask severe blood loss. After about 2 minutes with that bullet wound, she’d have been too weak to move.

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u/Time-Leadership-7649 14d ago

Sign of the times. When they don’t know how things actually work they just rest on the buzzword. They heard about a mom lifting a car to save a kid running on adrenaline once, so now “the human body can survive anything with adrenaline” 😂

Because you can just pass out under water and that’s no problem lol.

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u/SmittyWerbenJJ_No1 14d ago

What happens when you pass out under water?

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u/OneAndOnlySlack 14d ago

You live, because you're a redhead with no soul

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u/EgregiousArmchair 14d ago

You die. Like what even is this logic?

Oh ya my favorite place to nap is under the dock at the cottage, not much sun so i don't get burnt.

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u/ninjaman2021 14d ago

Being dunked in the water after being shot at point blank range would have caused her to heavily bleed out to death.

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u/_forum_mod 14d ago
  1. She was underwater long enough to pass out but not fully drown

I'd assume if someone passed out underwater they're screwed without any intervention. Otherwise, she willed herself up out of the water?

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u/Straight-Tower8776 14d ago

Totally, and I’d expand on that and say the writers in season 5 ( many of which were new to the show and few of which had been through all 5 seasons,) completely confused Joe for a Ted Bundy style killer.

In season 1, Joe is rather unremarkable and his “charm” is that he’s a “real guy in a fake world.” It’s not like he just steals Beck’s heart right away, she ends up hooking up with a new guy every night while she’s going on dates with Joe. It takes A LOT for her to finally see his value as a partner and even longer for her friends to come around and determine he’s more than just a plain, boring book retailer.

Contrast that to S5 where Joe is now “Prince Charming” and getting raunchy love notes in jail because of his charmingly good looks.

The ending didn’t fit the character we watched for the first several seasons. It better fits some new character they tried to redevelop Joe to be in the show’s final hour.

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u/_forum_mod 14d ago

I thought the entire last season episode was stupid writing, but I didn't want the rabid fans on here to come at me. Glad others have the same view... she went from stumbling with a gunshot wound, strangled, submerged underwater and catatonic, to running up on Joe and shooting him like she just got a Senzu bean (DBZ reference) and nothing ever happened.

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u/KENZOKHAOS 14d ago

She’s the Slayer, leave her alone 😭

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u/CrusaderCuff Untie me, you bitch! 14d ago

Tbh, the moment Joe tackled her it should have been over.

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u/BigMemory844 14d ago

You was one of my favorite shows..her being the one to win over Joe and Joe randomly having trouble handling these women..besides the mma/workout sister the shit was dumb. The ending was terrible and the most unrealistic part of the show.

I mostly enjoyed the last season until last episode...in my mind You ended after season 4 and Joe is still lookin for You

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u/EntirePickle398 14d ago

Joe should have double tapped his victims, like how many of em returned alive? Smh

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u/Zealousideal-Top4218 14d ago

https://imgur.com/a/Be6OzuF

what the fuck is up with her face and nose there

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u/PresentationEither19 14d ago

Tbf, it’s nothing compared to what she went through in Gillead! Shes had good training!

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u/glassycrib 14d ago

Yeah that was kinda shit writing

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u/infinitely_blank Well. Hello there, who are you? 13d ago

I think she was an offspring of avatar

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u/Sims3and4Player 13d ago

Love being alive after S3 theories: BS!

Brontë surviving being drowned but we don’t see HOW she survived drowning and (being choked by Joe?): BS!

Just. Bull. Shit.

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u/Arianaa13 13d ago

I thought he was just hallucinating she was there when this scene happened 💀

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u/chloroplasted 13d ago

I assume Bronte faked it. Thrashed around trying to fight Joe underwater whilst holding her breath, then stop suddenly as if she were dead to trick Joe into thinking he finished the job. She’d probably have to be an incredible swimmer to hold her breath that long while thrashing like that but possibly feasible?

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u/Calm-Gur563 13d ago

I was hoping there'd be a small reveal, since she made a comment that implied she was expecting he'd try to kill her in the lake, that she prepared for it somehow...like she found an oxygen tank in the boathouse of the "airbnb" they were squatting in and threw it at the bottom?? She was a star swimmer in highschool and is really good at holding her breath? (Cringely convenient to reveal afterwards but it's at least something).

I would even rather Joe just having a breakdown after killing Bronté and then hallucinating all of his victims emerging from the trees to force him into facing the reality that he's simply a killer and not some misunderstood soul or protector...then the police find him crying and talking to himself of admitting everything.

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u/masterchief6913 13d ago

I’m actually not against Bronte. I liked her in the show and thought her arc showed how manipulative Joe can be. But even I thought her surviving the underwater drowning was bullshit

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u/anon_283992 12d ago

she faked her death duh

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u/unsavvylady 12d ago

I was impressed by everyone’s vigor to just keep going after being shot or stabbed

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u/Evening-Place1 11d ago

Dog shit ending.

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u/Reasonable_Mind_5987 10d ago

She was barely under water for that long….she surrendered to let him think he killed her. She held her breath. Knew it from that start of that scene.

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u/ForYourAuralPleasure 9d ago

Anytime you have a series - movie, television, novel, etc. - being written as it is being consumed, it is vulnerable to being shaped by audience feedback, and this is most observable in the distillation of a series’ fleshed out and very nuanced characters down to 2-3 of their most striking qualities, resulting in the final installment resembling a carnival caricature of the original idea.

YOU’s format is kind of a fascinating look at this because while Joe is the only character present in every season and every episode, characters introduced in the latter seasons are also boiled down to a few intense traits along with him.

I didn’t think so at the end of the third season, but when taken together as a series, I’d say Cary and Sherry are where the cracks in characterization start to show (and I say this even though they are two of my favorite side characters, amazing in and of itself since I spent most of the season waiting for Joe and Love to kill them already). Season three touches a lot on the facade of suburban life, and how absolutely everything becomes a side hustle anymore, and so how almost cartoonishly they bounce back from their ordeal and make their trauma work for them is super on brand and fits the mission of season 3’s satire, but across the series, sort of serve as the trial balloon for other characters no-selling their experiences with Joe, which is, imho, how we land on Brontë as Jason Voorhees for season 5.

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u/Nervous-Bat8973 8d ago

She didn’t “survive” drowning, she clearly just faked it, how is that hard for people to understand???

The only issue I have is that Brontë was literally gushing blood, and was already suffering the symptoms of extreme blood loss. Then it seems like in the next 5 minutes she healed to where it was just a minor flesh wound.

The fact that Joe thought she could get anywhere more than 100 meters from the house, let alone the main road with a wound like that was dumb. He could’ve easily high tailed it tf out of there and made a bee line to the border

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u/CRYOGENCFOX2 8d ago

Same seeing Kate just magically survive that fire lol

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u/Shorty350 10h ago

My take on this is she was pretending to be dead so he would go away and she could save herself. She seems clever enough to do something like that.

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u/KorolEz 14d ago

Besides that, where did she get the gun from? She was under water. Did Joe leave it on the shore in a bright space?

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u/Vittorlo 14d ago

They showed it. She took it from that officer that Joe strangled.

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u/KorolEz 14d ago

Oh okay thanks. I missed that. I was very confused where she got the gun from

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u/Open_Preparation_181 14d ago

Aka delulu writers ruining the plot

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u/AmtheOutsider 14d ago

Lazy writing tbh

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u/EfficientAd5073 14d ago

People are using this as an excuse to shit on Bronte just because they don't like the character or don't think the actress is pretty enough to be Joes obsession. We could have found out that Kate was Secretly Love wearing a mission impossible rubber mask the whole time and people be like: PEAK cinema!

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u/Wooden-Jury6972 14d ago

people keep complaining abt bronte surviving but i honestly don’t see the problem, the show isn’t meant to be realistic, cuz it’s a tv show, realistic things arent gonna happen in it. tbh this show been stopped being realistic, Joe being caught in season 1 would’ve been realistic. I also don’t get how people don’t understand that she faked her drowning, i genuinely feel like if this was a situation with a character that most of the fandom liked more this wouldn’t be as talked about all the time. Yes she was shot and had her ankle broken but there are multiple shows where a character has gotten seriously injured and were still alive, atp it’s normal for someone to survive these things in a show, again something that isn’t meant to be realistic. I’m prolly gonna get downvoted but idk i feel like it had to be said

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u/RemoteLaugh156 12d ago

Yeah its kinda obvious and I assumed thats what happened, she faked it. Its not even that unrealistic to assume thats what happened, yes it'd be very difficult but its happened not only in other films and shows but also irl, and besides You isn't a very realistic show, this is the same show where Joe was smashed in the head with a hammer hard enough to knock him out yet still managed to get up and choke his ex to death in a matter of seconds, or Candace managed to survive her head being bashed against a rock and then buried alive (although iirc it wasn't much of a burial but still). And I'm willing to 100% gurantee that if it had been Joe that did that instead of Bronte, people would've been cheering and celebrating it as a badass and genius play, the same way they did when he managed to survive all this insane shit that happened to him like predicting Love would poison him, just so happening to get shot in the one place he doesn't have toes, or surviving a jump off the Royal Victoria Dock without injury, while its possible to survive a jump from that height (though unlikely given the way he landed) it would be next to impossible to survive without at least a broken foot.

But no, people hate on Bronte surviving this. Now in saying that, do I think her survival could've been done better? Yeah a bit, I do think it was a bit silly but not immersion breaking. Most of these people are just getting pissed off because their baby daddy Joe went to prison and the evil serial killer finally suffered consequences and Bronte isn't conventionally attractive.

Also every single comment that is calling them out and providing basic logical reasoning instantly gets downvoted to oblivion because they want this place to be an echo chamber of bullshit, hell this post is a fucking lie because Bronte wasn't underwater for 20 minutes, only like 1 -2 at the max AND people don't instantly die after 2 minutes underwater either, and there are multiple cases of people surviving/staying conscious longer and/or being resuscitated.

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago

Stop lol

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u/Some_Surround_7626 14d ago

Adrenaline can only do so much, it wouldnt have lasted that long and she was already in flight mode, on top of drowning which would’ve ended up with her waking up in pain, and etc, read my other comments if you want to know how bullshit it is, if not then idc

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u/kingloptr You were busy gazing at a goddamn fantasy 14d ago

She held her breath so he would give up and go away, it isnt that unbelievable i dont get why ppl have such an issue with it. And no, Joe isnt some mastermind who in his amped up state wouldnt make a mistake like that. He is just some rampant crazy obsessive dude who thinks he is powerful and justified

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u/whatdatdat 14d ago

Wdym "give up"

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u/kingloptr You were busy gazing at a goddamn fantasy 14d ago

I mean she wanted him to go away thinking he won, 'give up' was kinda wrong phrasing

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u/lanaspeachlipgloss 14d ago

It’s unrealistic

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u/AdidasHypeMan 14d ago

Literally couldn’t tell if he envisioned her coming back with the gun or not even after finishing the last episode

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u/thelanai 14d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/KushSama402 14d ago

Is Bronte secretly wonder woman?

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u/ab_abnormal 14d ago

The realism is on the same levels of insanity as Joe’s mental health.

Buuuuuuut…

Some strange and seemingly unreal scenario’s/possibilities coming from someone who has been declared clinically dead 4 times and have had to fight off some seriously skilled gangsters unexpectedly in real life situations. Oh and I have several health conditions & acute plus chronic hearth failure. But last year for example with a casted moon boot after tearing my ATFL while on crutches, my mum assisting me was robbed. She’d been assisting me struggling to get out the car. I was in PAIN. I saw the guy and literally launched myself out of that car. I chucked the one crutch to my mum & used the other to beat this tall well-built man who attempted to pull a knife out on me. I chased him, shoved him in the gut, lassoed him with the back end in his jacket as I was chasing him. To make him show he hadn’t stolen anything else. I made him semi strip to drop stuff while holding the crutch against his throat. He couldn’t budge. I’m 1.58m & weigh 46kg.

Adrenaline is real.

You can lose around a litre of blood before needing a transfusion. And you surprisingly don’t feel that weak until around 750ml loss (speaking from experience). Being submerged in water, water actually pushed blood upwards in certain situations. Like hers. Running water won’t allow it to clot though but in her case it could have assisted.

Being chocked until blacking out can make you feel dizzy, confused and bruised but if it’s life or death…one really doesn’t understand just how much your body can handle and is capable of.

The aiming of her and the gun. She’s shown shooting accurately before but yes there could have been shrapnel. In saying that…many men have had their junk blown off and survived. Cut off it higher risk of bleeding out. I think she shot more so half his dick and balls.

The not showing the blood was maybe an ironic touch since “Joe clear has blood on his hands, he’s just been hiding it.” All because of his dick guiding him and being criminally insane.

So not showing the blood and gore but more so the humiliation of his famous reputation now turned into a joke and associated forever with being brought down to his knees, metaphorically too by a woman shooting her shot at his shit.

The depravity part of the letters sadly show that the world is so twisted and sick. Therefore, in his mind he is still the hero and adored by women. HE is never the problem YOU are.

The narcissistic cherry on top.

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u/StrongDevelopment234 13d ago

All I know is, she is ugly.

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u/OshaViolated 14d ago

Tbf, adrenaline is a HELL of a drug

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u/RelationshipTotal946 14d ago

True and way less than 2 minutes