I honestly don’t understand why everyone is so obsessed with Elinor.
Like, we get it, she’s hot and badass or whatever, but she also emotionally manipulated and ruined Oliver’s entire life because she “felt like it.” She tried to force Juliette to drain Calliope (literally manhandled her sister and forced Calliope’s blood into her mouth), she guilt-tripped Juliette and tried to get her to kill an innocent woman and manipulated her into getting super drunk and killing a random guy when she knew that Juliette didn’t want to.
And before someone comes at me like ‘well Oliver did the same thing with Ashley’ - no, he didn’t. He killed her in the hopes that Juliette would give into instinct to help her, he didn’t try to force her to do anything, let alone manhandle her or put smear into her mouth against her will.
Adding on to what Elinor did to Juliette, she did a lot of gaslighting and guilt-tripping, made everything all about herself, and constantly told Juliette that she had to do something because otherwise Elinor’s future - not Juliette’s - would be in jeopardy. She also clearly threatened Ben’s life on multiple occasions (Juliette's best friend since childhood!) and trashed the pills that Juliette needed to feel even remotely okay. That’s like taking someone who has a broken arm’s cast away.
There are more instances of Elinor pulling the strings to her own favor in Juliette's life as well, you just need to pay attention while watching.
She also manipulated her parents into believing that Oliver was evil, causing them to literally banish and shun him for years. We got flashbacks and mentions of how she coerced Oliver into killing his pet turtle, Mr. Green, and manipulated him into killing their therapist, telling him that if he just drank from her, he'd never feel bad again (notice that she did similar things with Juliette.)
Again, she didn't have to do any of this - Oliver isn't even a part of the matriarchy, he was no threat to her or to her power. She simply 'felt like it.'
From the age of two, she 'just felt like' ruining her innocent twin's life. Even after Oliver's return in eps 3-4, she was still trying to manipulate Sebastian and Margot into thinking that he was evil. When she and Margot were driving to get Oliver - who had literally just been tortured - from the Burns, she kept trying to convince Margot that he was evil, that he was a psychopath, and got very frustrated and angry when Margot ignored her.
And even after destroying her brother’s life, that still wasn’t enough for her - she wants power so badly that she’ll ruin, manipulate, twist, hurt, and/or kill anyone in her way, no matter who they are.
That doesn’t make her a ‘hot power queen omg slay,’ it makes her a manipulative, power-hungry, murderous, abusive bitch.
Edit: a lot of people I've seen online have been saying that Oliver is just as psycho as Elinor is, and that they're both the same levels of evil.
I'd like to say that I don't believe that this is true, simply because it's pretty obvious that while Oliver is definitely seeking revenge in an insanely over-the-top fashion (by a human standpoint) we have to remember that psychopaths are people who show little to no emotion.
The only time that we've really seen Elinor show emotion is for Sebastian, her father, or when she is losing the power that she has. However, we've seen Oliver show emotion on multiple occasions - he talks about love, he's open with Carmen, he trauma-dumps to Talia while tied up in her basement, comforts Juliette when she comes to him, and openly sobs when confronted by his parents. We can see that he has a lot of deep, emotional layers, that he buries and hides to keep himself safe from the world.
And how sad is that? That he was manipulated so badly at such a young age by the person who was supposed to always be there for him, his twin sister, that he has to hide all of his true feelings to protect himself.
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Why is Juliette’s family so interesting? Like for this premise all they really needed was to be was evil controlling family who think they’re above everyone and get in the way of the girls relationship. And they are all those thing but they’re somehow also likeable and I root for them despite myself.
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