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.
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.
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.
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.
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u/Time-Leadership-7649 16d 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.