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« on: July 21, 2023, 03:25:09 PM »
Carolyn always had terrible luck in the romance department. And it didn't really matter if the men were basically good guys like Tony Peterson and Chris Jennings or those with a dark side like Burke Devlin and Jeb Hawkes. In fact, a dark side seemed to attract her more! But my main problem with her relationship with Jeb is that she was not only frequently confronted with the fact that Jeb was hardly a good guy but that he had in fact killed her father. She was repeatedly confronted with the latter but she always chose to ignore it and that was way out of character for Carolyn.
As for Maggie and Joe, sure, it would have been nice if they'd gotten back together. But we have to remember that so far as Maggie knows, Joe cheated on her and for most women that is unforgivable. And it's not like she didn't try to get Joe to explain his behavior - but of course he was incapable of doing so - so in the end Maggie felt she had no choice but to accept Joe wasn't the guy for her. Now, could she have eventually forgiven his "cheating" without an explanation for why he had? Who knows? But that whole situation in their relationship seems like it might have been an obstacle to them ever getting back together and certainly getting back to the place they'd been before Angelique ruined everything for them. Their situation is quite tragic - but at its heart DS is a Gothic story - and very rarely in Gothic stories does true romance work out in the end...