Originally Posted by BlackKat
This abuse storyline really isn't working for me. IMO, the reason Little Mo/Trevor worked is because we saw it all, we saw it build up, and while it got dragged out towards the end, the moment Little Mo fought back was earned. This isn't. We've seen Owen punch Denise once, and suddenly we're supposed to cheer her on for standing up to him? All we know is what we've heard, and I don't feel any connection to it.
And we've seen Denise, someone we were introduced to as a strong woman, suddenly reduced to a needy women making excuses. "He stayed with me, that means he cares," blah blah, and that isn't earned either because we haven't seen Owen wear her down or anything like that, so it just comes across as another sudden character change.
All there is is Denise spouting the same old lines. "If I'd done something different," and "It's just the booze, he's a good man really," and it just felt like it was taken from a by-the-book "How to write an abuse victim," manual. The only person I felt sorry for was Chelsea, because she's the only one who felt real.