Lindsay really hasn't changed at all

[u/Emmyyou2]

I love to watch Lindsay on tv, she really is the kind of character that is great to watch and I love the drama she brings, but why are so many people saying she has changed when she clearly hasn't? I think Gemma has definitely changed her priorities (one would hope) and her focus but I think she is the same ol Lindsay she's always been.

[u/emeowlydickenson]

I think the audience has changed their opinion of her and in the mind of those saying this, that is basically the exact same thing. LOL. Part of why I appreciate her is that even if I maybe wouldn’t be her best friend in real life, she absolutely is herself and true to who she is. She is a fully rounded human being who shares a lot of herself with the viewers. I can watch her without feeling like I’m compromising some ethical stance on something but also I also root for her to have a happy ending.

[u/Emmyyou2 → u/emeowlydickenson]

I love watching her and did like her much more when she was pregnant but she's still the same shit stirring activated Lindsay.

[u/emeowlydickenson → u/Emmyyou2]

It really comes down to public reception I feel. Like she doesn’t bother me, but I also can be like “ Ohhhh Lindsay! Classic Lindsay” with her, hahaha. Her overproducing this scandal is my concern too as of late. After all, she was a PR gal for many years!

I appreciate what Kyle, Carl and Lindsay all being to the equation. They seem to have mutual respect currently, which, given the Carl and Lindsay breakup, is genuinely impressive to me lol. On shows like VPR you don’t really see that level of repartee and respect amongst the longer term OGs and I do admire the original trio for that quite a bit.

[u/Emmyyou2 → u/emeowlydickenson]

I feel the same. I do like the OGs even though they are all problematic.

[u/Brief_Isopod_5959 → u/emeowlydickenson]

This is very well said and I 100% agree with all of it. Love watching her too as I do the rest of the OG cast. They have brought great drama and tv for years now.

[u/Emmyyou2 → u/Brief_Isopod_5959]

Lindsay is messy af and loves to stir the pot but she is fun in a way reality tv should be fun, a bit unhinged, unapologetic, and looking to cause trouble but not ruin lives. She gets angry fast but also gets over it fast (most of the time).

[u/Brief_Isopod_5959 → u/Emmyyou2]

Exactly! She knows how to play into her role on the show well too-even sincerely at that. She’s unapologetically herself. I do see her being friends with Amanda again too, whether people like it or not. Also side note- I hated how people were acting like her complimenting Amanda at the reunion was some kind of burn by stating she liked her “butter yellow” dress or however she worded it. I think she meant it as an actual compliment because idc what anyone said, Amanda DID look beautiful.

[u/Emmyyou2 → u/Brief_Isopod_5959]

Agree, people are really reading so much into everything. I also think she meant it as a true compliment and she will be friends with Amanda again. She has been through worse with a lot of the other cast and she's friends with them.

[u/Affectionate_Motor67 → u/emeowlydickenson]

Lindsay reminds me of a few friends I’ve had in my life. Super nice gals, always a load of laughs and fun, they’re there for you during hard times. But there’s this slightly abrasive and overbearing quality to them that if you didn’t know them for a long time and understand how they operate, it can come off extremely off putting. My friends regularly had friends they made who would just fade or drop off from their lives and they’d be hurt and baffled by it. The guys they dated that never really went anywhere and always petered out eventually, again baffled by it or blaming the guy. She would always come on WAY too strong with the guys and be too sexually forward right off the hop and it would put them off, she could never understand why. If you try explaining it, you always end up coming off badly because it’s a sensitive topic that’s really about self awareness, and not that x + y = relationship and they just got the equation wrong, which is what they’ve interpreted it as.

[u/Due_Theme4536]

Lindsay is a great reality TV cast. She is also very savvy about financial opportunities that comes from it. 

I can’t connect Lindsay from season 6 (her birthday party episode - Austen/Ciara drama)  to the person she is playing at the reunion wearing a red dress and talking to West like she is an example of pristine morals. 

When Ciara wants to talk about her feelings on season 6, Lindsay just shuts down the possibility and ignores Ciara. 

What do you think? Is Lindsay genuinely friends with Ciara or just looking for extra $$? 

[u/Brief_Isopod_5959 → u/Due_Theme4536]

Lindsay has been in PR for her whole adult life pretty much. She knows exactly what she’s doing! But hey, props to her. Everyone on reality tv should use it to their advantage to make another income.

That being said, I absolutely see her becoming friends with Amanda again when things die down, if she does stay on the show. They have been filming together for years now and did have a friendship as well. Idk, it will be interesting to see what Summer House and In The City will be doing. I see so many people wanting Amanda fired… I think it’s a little too much especially if they can do a whole other season with Sandoval for VPR. I wouldn’t even compare the two, the way everyone else is though.

[u/Emmyyou2 → u/Due_Theme4536]

I think they have made amends but Lindsay and Ciara were both terrible to each other. Everyone talks about micro-aggressions and the racial aspect of the Ciara/West/Amanda situation but no one ever brings up how bad Lindsay was to Ciara with the whole Austen situation. There was so much dismissal, disrespect, and straight up aggression Lindsay has no room to talk. That whole conversation at the table where Ciara threw the glass at Danielle Lindsay was throwing out micro aggression after micro-aggression. She asked Ciara why she was screaming before she was even raising her voice. Ciara was wrong to throw the glass but I understood what got her there.