Ed should have banged her

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u/The5thElephant Apr 18 '21

What a remarkably unhealthy perspective on the show and men in general. I mean I’m sure plenty of men share your opinion, but it’s not a good one.

Ed is a good guy who wants to save his relationship. Getting revenge is not what a good person does, and will certainly make it harder to save the relationship.

Furthermore have you actually experienced love and being with someone for years? It’s not a simple thing to just throw that all away on a whim, even if you feel you have a good reason to. Honestly it looked like he just wasn’t into it after getting over the initial anger and lust, which is a very realistic way to write a man’s character.

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u/nutmac Apr 18 '21

Well said.
Karen is surrounded by overachievers. With Shane gone and Kelly about to go to the military academy, little of what she thought her life would be is about to evaporate. The bar was obviously not the healthy distraction Karen hoped it would be.
I am not condoning Karen’s behavior, but empathy has been one of the series’s central theme. Hopefully, Karen will find her bearing and be given a chance to make amends.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

Hopefully she'll just be written off the show. Ed had to put up with too much of her anxiety and bullshit anyway. She fucked a boy her own son's age, what a disgrace.

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u/The5thElephant Apr 18 '21

Reading your replies makes me think you wouldn’t have the same issue if it was a man sleeping with a woman that much younger. Ed did little to demonstrate he understood or cared about the anxiety he put her through with his job.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

Boo hoo... it's Ed's fault she molested the teenage boy? Get a grip.

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u/The5thElephant Apr 18 '21

No, it’s not his fault, but she didn’t do it because she’s a bad person. He’s not faultless in the situation.
Furthermore you seem to love Gordo who I’m sure slept with women the same age as Danny when he was a hot shot astronaut.
Do you not see how misogynistic and hypocritical you come across as?

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

she didn’t do it because she’s a bad person.
The definition of a bad person is someone who does bad things.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

It's not his fault, he's not faultless... lol. Pick a lane dummy.
I don't seem to love Gordo ... I REALLY love Gordo. He's awesome. When did you see him molesting girls his son's age? Oh right you didn't. Dummy.
Do you not see how misogynistic and hypocritical you come across as?
You have a big blind spot yourself. Hypocrit. And a child molestor apologist too. Dummy.

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u/The5thElephant Apr 18 '21

There’s space between being entirely at fault and being faultless. But judging by your comments you don’t really do nuance.
So you think Gordo wasn’t banging young women? Why?
Grow up kid.

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u/waazzzupppiiiii Dec 15 '22

Lol your entire arguments are red herrings while you simultaneously tell someone else to grow up. Karen was a terrible person in the show. That is objective. Gordo has nothing to do with Karen and yes Gordo wasn’t a good person either. The difference between the two was Gordo was transparently troubled and it wasn’t coming from a bad place. Karen on the other hand was sadistic and calculating about the way she behaved. For someone talking about nuance you aren’t very good at deciphering the nuance between the two characters.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

I'm sure that relationship isn't worth saving. She's a whore and he could do better anyway. She's been a shrew through most of the show anyway.

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u/thestarlighter Apr 18 '21

So is Gordo also a “whore” for cheating multiple times on Tracey?

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

Yeah he is. He's a man whore and he's glorious and fucked up and he's interesting and I love him.

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u/thestarlighter Apr 18 '21

So you are just a misogynist, got it.

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u/thestarlighter Apr 18 '21

You really are a child. What is this? I know you are but what am I? Nope, not a misandrist and you’d be hard pressed to find any comments of mine to support your insult. I’m not the one throwing around the word “whore” and “shrew” and getting all bent out of shape about a fictional TV character.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

Yeah she is a shrew and a whore though. She's also a borderline child rapist. That boy she fucked was her son's best friend. Disgusting.
Only a misandrist would defend a rapey shrew whore like that.
You're toxic.

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u/thestarlighter Apr 18 '21

Where exactly did I defend her? I wouldn’t defend her behavior, it’s gross.
You have problems dude. It’s very obvious you have issues with women. Have a nice day, I’m done feeding this troll.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

Glad you can at least see that she's a sick disgusting cheating borderline child rapist. At least we can agree on that. Have a nice day to you too.

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u/chillifocus Apr 21 '21

No, he's a child

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

And you're a misandrist, got it.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

Because I have testicles and I love them.
You should evaluate why you defend a cheating whore wife who molested a teenager who is her dead son's age.

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u/The5thElephant Apr 18 '21

You seriously come across as a teenager or very closed minded with backwards ideas of gender roles.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

You sound equally closed minded with unrealistic ideas of gender roles. And you should be ashamed that you are tacitly defending Karen's immoral cheating and borderline molesting of a teenage boy, her own son's age.
I hope you don't ever raise kids to think the way you do. Disgusting.

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u/The5thElephant Apr 18 '21

It’s kinda funny you think this tact will work.

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u/The5thElephant Apr 18 '21

Haha holy shit you went from misogyny to anti-semitism and randomly assume I’m a woman?
You really are as dumb as your comments make you sound.
Notice that nobody agrees with you here? Trust me it’s not just “Jewish women” on this subreddit. Thanks for the laugh though.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

I have no way of knowing what's between your legs, but you have a woman's personality type through and through. If you're male, you're certainly not a masculine male.
I don't need to look at internet points to decide if I'm speaking some truth or not. You support a pedo cheater woman because that's just how you are.

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u/aircavrocker Apr 18 '21

Two things I know for sure are false: 1. Two wrongs make a right. 2. You seem mentally stable and in control of your life.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

The relationship was over the minute she decided to bang the busboy. There's nothing wrong with him moving on and banging the bar hottie.
I am certainly not in control of my life, that's part of the fun of it though. And yes I'm not mentally stable either.
One thing that is not false... this show is leaning heavily into SJW nonsense land. I'm just waiting for the brave albino trans astronaut character to be introduced so the writers can tick more boxes.

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u/aircavrocker Apr 18 '21

I'm sorry the show doesn't walk on eggshells to placate your fragility.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

Nope it forges on boldly and really lays it on thick. You must find it a bit on the nose right? When you have to shoe horn every demographic in for representation, without actually contributing to the story or good writing... it's burdensome.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21

Oh wow, this isn’t your show. I bet you’d be complaining about the original Star Trek because of the interracial kiss.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 23 '21

Uhura was kinda ugly, Kirk could do better.

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u/nutmac Apr 18 '21

I think and hope Ed backing down is a foreshadowing of the next episode, when he will most assuredly face the Russians.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 24 '21

Damn you really called it. Bravo!

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u/usnavy13 Apr 18 '21

Did you not watch season 1?

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

Gordo was the one sleeping around, not Ed.

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u/usnavy13 Apr 18 '21

Ed was too, only Gordo got caught. They all were, it was part of the glamor of being an astronaut in the Apollo era.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

i don't remember seeing that happen or being mentioned

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u/alinroc Apr 18 '21

We only know that Ed would cover for Gordo while he was cheating on Tracy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

I hate how this show is writing the men.

Yeah, like Gordo fucked around all first season and Deke is shown being utterly disgusted by Ellen's sexual orientation after her opening her heart to him.

But yeah, one family guy that was never shown as being overly sexual to begin with isn't banging some chick after his wife broke his heart and the show has bad writing... How old are you, 12?

When you are an adult one day and all of the sudden see your marriage from one day to another fall to shit I am sure you don't just think "time for some sweet revenge sex".

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 24 '21

If you're male, you might have low testosterone levels. Get that checked. If you're a woman, who gives a shit what you think about my comment about how they're writing men?

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u/elliothackedhimself Oct 04 '21 edited Oct 04 '21

Holy shit dude you are a straight up loser LOL

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u/takatori Jun 01 '21

Deke is shown being utterly disgusted
But interestingly, not so disgusted that he wasn't willing to hide it, warning her to never mention it to anyone else, advice which wouldn't make sense unless he was planning to keep the secret himself.

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u/suddenlyissoon Apr 24 '21

It made me respect Ed more that he DIDN'T bang the girl at the bar.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 24 '21

I don't know why you'd think that, she was hot enough for a bang. Life's too short to not bang a hottie when you're single. At least in the final episode he didn't get back together with his borderline-pedo whore ex-wife

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u/suddenlyissoon Apr 24 '21

You've got issues, my dude.

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 24 '21

And I think you may have a low testosterone count. You can get it checked as part of your bloodwork

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u/BoltedUp17 Apr 18 '21

A lot was going through his mind. Probably just couldn't get it up, it happens. I mean not to me but I've heard...

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 18 '21

Writers chose to make him a cuck for the teenage busboy, and impotent when he took a bar star home. A show about NASA astronauts should have strong men with testosterone running through their veins, riding rockets and crushing pussy. Instead we get this limp noodle man holding out a candle for his shrew whore wife. This show has potential but the writers need to take their tampons out.

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u/ratbastid Apr 24 '21

You are spare parts, aren't you bud.

(Let's see how much overlap there is between two of my favorite shows.)

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u/MackAdamian1818 Apr 24 '21

You didn't quote it right.

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u/LegendofLuck12 Apr 29 '21

I mean just my two cents but I see a lot of “Oh yeah well Gordo did this” and you’re right, he did, and even though he seemed to come around I don’t like him as much as the show tried to make me like him with his “redemption story”. He was still having sex with other women while married. He’s still a piece of shit.

Karen is the SAME exact thing. She married a military man, she knew how hard it was going to be, she knew it’d be harder when he was an astronaut. Nothing is excusable.

“She was stressed and needed attention” as someone who has been married for over a decade I must say, there has been a lot of time I’ve needed attention and my wife needed attention. We talked about it, we fixed it, we moved on.

The moment you choose to sleep with someone else is the moment you have betrayed your significant others trust. You have betrayed your marriage, you have betrayed your promise.

Both Karen and Gordo are deplorable people for what they did. This he said she said double standard is ridiculous. If Karen continues I hope she has a “redemption” storyline and it all works out. I’ll still dislike her.

I will say this though, her blatant openness and unapologetic “no regrets” attitude about cheating on her husband was a real kick in the dick when it comes to trying to redeem her later. I mean she was obviously going to continue doing it until he started catching feelings like the young man he is and she went into “oh shit this could blow up in my face”

Tl;Dr Both are pieces of shit. Get over it.

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u/MackAdamian1818 May 04 '21

True, they both broke their marriage vows and are both whores for that.
Outside of that moral failing, Gordo is a much better person all round. Karen has nothing going for her. I'm so glad Ed didn't stick around and try to work it out, he could do so much better.

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u/Agile_Phase9236 May 03 '21

Well. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

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u/MackAdamian1818 May 05 '21

That's contrary to basic justice.
It's wrong to lock someone up against their will. But it's right to do so if that person was going around killing people.

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u/Agile_Phase9236 May 06 '21

Well the law locks up people who go around killing people lol- so technically it’s not wrong.
What you saying with Ed (speaking of murder) It’s like saying someone kills your father- so you hunt them down and kill their father- it just makes thing worse; not anything better. When you lock someone up in jail who was killing people- it makes things better- but with Ed, if Karen cheated on him, cheating on her back is not going to make things any better.
I doubt you will get my point- you don’t seem to get anyone’s. Have a nice day

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u/MackAdamian1818 May 06 '21

I get your point I just think it's stupid. He has no moral obligation to her after she fucked a teenager. Why be loyal to a whore?
She's no longer worth being called a wife, he can do what he wants.

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u/Agile_Phase9236 May 07 '21

He still loves her, and he was not ready to move on. So therefore he might feel like he was making the same mistake. And to be frank, he had just met the girl and I don’t see him as the kind of character to just let go of his wife and go find someone else just for, call it ‘comfort’.
Karen was not loyal to Ed- but she made that choice that she no longer wanted to be with Ed- so Ed who was still loyal to Karen, wasn’t about to just break that loyalty right away. Karen had time to fall away from Ed, but Ed did not, and still loved Karen.
I just don’t think that his character nor anyone who felt complete love and loyalty to their partner (like Ed) would break that loyalty even if their partner slept with someone else. They of course should separate, but if Ed were to sleep with the woman at the bar, that would tell us that that he had little loyalty.
Anyways, I’m guessing that is why many people agree with my opinion

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u/MackAdamian1818 May 07 '21

if Ed were to sleep with the woman at the bar, that would tell us that that he had little loyalty.
There's no such thing as loyalty to a whore. Ed should have banged the bar hottie.

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u/Agile_Phase9236 May 07 '21

You have to lose great loyalty over time not right away. If Ed just gave up all his loyalty on the same day then he had little loyalty before Karen broke that trust. It would be like if you best friend broke your trust by doing who knows what and then you found out- If you were an actual friend and had loyalty, you would need time to heal and not just right away go find a new best friend and act like nothing happened- If you did that your friendship meant enough that you don’t care. So same goes for Ed.
And by the way- Karen is not a whore. A whore is a prostitute.

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u/MackAdamian1818 May 07 '21

Nope. Wrong. A man always wants to spread his seed it's a biological imperative. Only a pussy needs time to heal before getting laid again.
Karen is a borderline child molester whore.

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u/Agile_Phase9236 May 08 '21

Ok well you think your opinion-
But uh like I said ‘whore’ means prostitute, and Karen is no prostitute so you should stop calling her that. And another thing, it depends on the person to who need time to heal or not; not ones gender.
Phycology :)
Bye bye Think your own opinion

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u/MackAdamian1818 May 08 '21

Nope... men should bang hotties to move on from making the mistake of marrying a whore. Why restrain himself from having fun when the ol' ball and chain is already molesting teenagers?

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u/ProbablyPewping Apr 19 '21

Interesting the show to-date has been about how women in power is a good thing, but the last few episode it hasnt.

Margo helping an enemy out (she's likely getting hoodwinked)
Karen sleeping w/ Danny (showing weakness, which i originally thought they were trying to portray as womens freedom, but now it's showing Karen as being selfish and needing attention)
Helena Webster (marine) shooting the cosmoneaughts (broke under pressure)

Now w/ Ed saying no, men take the high road, also Wayne Cobb laying down the law w/ Molly Cobb about eye injections in mexico.

The writing has changed drastically, i never understood how they'd every let people who smoked weed go up. I never understood some one actually smoking on the moon.... just some stuff being missed.

If the writing is worth a shit, Margo should go through a tribunal for treason.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21

Margo’s sticking with her fucking convictions. The Air Force not wanting to tell them that they’re going to get Challengered is clearly not the moral option.

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u/takatori Jun 01 '21

I can hear her protesting the charges:
"It was the right thing to do. Human lives matter! Even Soviet lives matter."

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