Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-96.228.137.74-20160311185338/@comment-26247132-20160404060740

I'm posting my response here to a comment in this thread because it got kinda off-topic over there.

Show addict wrote: Wow... i had absolutely no idea of any of that. Thank you for all the explanation and info.

Call me naive, but i really thought they would never go through that much trouble.

The Network clearly has no idea what they're doing and has been scrambling for the past month to figure it out too late. I'm almost certain that JR's present media silence is only because it was finally forced upon him (which should have been done immediately after they realized the backlash was bigger than they thought). The Network is only making it worse with their stubborn refusal to admit they are wrong (especially with this latest rumor about the Shawna Benson scapegoat thing).

My honest opinion is that there were no intentionally malicious motivations behind the queer-baiting. They took things much too far and crossed a line they should have clearly seen but I don't think they set out to do that purposefully. The queer-baiting, however, is only a small portion of a much larger problem. To put it simply, JR is a privileged bully who was given too much power and it got to his head. He bullied his cast and he bullied his fans and it's his own gross negligence that led both the show and the fans into the mess we're in now.

I still hold firm to my belief that there is someone or something that was introduced to the show (or Network) around 1x04 and was removed again around 3x04. Whoever that person is or whatever that component was, it needs to be returned immediately.