TL;DR I'd like to see Carl's trauma from almost being r-ped be handled with emotional depth like how Maggie's was. Speaking as a male r-pe victim who was around Carl's age, it really struck home for me and I saw myself in a charaxcter getting justice i never got.
So, I'm not looking for spoilers into future content but I just want to talk about what happened with Carl in the last episode of season 4. Also forgive any weird formatting, I'm on mobile.
In the show so far it kinda seems like Carl's trauma gets brushed to the side sometimes, or maybe it's just that he seems to hide it more. With Maggie, when she was violated it really shook her up. Once the group (Carl, Rick, Michonne, Daryl) all reach Terminus and have to lay down their weapons and be frisked, I kinda wish Carl had a reaction to that. I think that since he was almost r-ped the previous night, he'd be skittish about being frisked by another grown man. I'm curious to see if he's affected by what happened to him in any similar ways to Maggie, or if he'll bury this down too.
Maybe it's just me or maybe it's too soon to tell since it all happened in one episode but I think he should have a lasting shaken up feeling. I always liked Carl and maybe it's cuz we've seen him grow up on the show, but I just wanna protect him even more now. I also find myself relating to him more, as I'm a male r-pe victim myself. The scene was very triggering to watch, but I'm glad I followed through. Watching Rick stab the shit out of Carl's would-be r-pist was sort of therapeutic.
Submitted November 23, 2020 at 08:30PM by Nyashipan https://ift.tt/35Vps2W
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