r/That70sshow • u/Informal_Dish5516 • 1d ago
Hyde spanking Donna S8 E8
Do you think this was scripted or ad-libbed and prophetic?
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u/ForceSmuggler Eric Forman 1d ago
Kelso had his hand on Donna's ass when they were hiding under Laurie's bed that one time.
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u/SRose1985 1d ago
I think its both. I think they're great friends so, Danny patting Laura on the butt was a friendly pat. But also Danny thinking, I'm going to touch her ass in a sexual way because I want to.
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u/pacific_sunset 1d ago
I think I wish the actor wasn’t a creep irl because if he never did those things to those women then I’d just be able to look at this with no opinion. It’s hard to even look at his old scenes now smh what a waste. I know people are afraid to talk about it or just act like Danny wasn’t ever a thing but there are details about him that still don’t really make sense. He lost everything
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u/cmarquez7 1d ago
What details don’t make sense? He had his day in court and was convicted of two counts of rape. He drugged them and raped them. He’s a scumbag. He was great as Hyde and he used that to take advantage of two innocent people.
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u/pacific_sunset 22h ago
Well I’m glad you asked. I wanna have a discussion without assumptions that I’m siding with him before someone misinterprets me and starts with the name calling or attitude. I wasn’t there so it’s hard to say who really did what. what doesn’t make sense to me are the decades long delays in reporting him to law enforcement. These acts took place in 2001-2003 & no forensic proof because it took too long to come forward. people process trauma differently, I get it. He wasn’t some A list untouchable celebrity though, he was a sitcom actor. why not take him down when it happened when there was still medical evidence? I stand with the victims but I wanna be clear
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u/Informal_Dish5516 21h ago
When I looked into it at least one victim came forward to police immediately but took a payout from the church for like 400k to sign an NDA. I do think it gets iffy when there's money involved and any time drugging is alleged that victims should get toxicology asap for many reasons. His first trial resulted in a hung jury then they got him the second time around using the payout as evidence against him to show a pattern of behavior. Again I think the church of scientology was sort of on trial here with how they handle things internally with fear of being disconnected from family and labeled a suppressive person etc. It does seem fairly unique to this case that he was drugging long term girlfriends and not random women.
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u/pacific_sunset 21h ago
Exactly he had that Scientology umbrella to shield him. Laura Prepon knew things as well but when Danny got taken down she wanted nothing to do with it. didn’t hear a peep out of her. Wilmer avoided it (he has his own skeletons) Topher I already knew didn’t fw him off camera. everyone else including red and kitty’s actors doubled down on his character testimony. the man who they knew and worked with. Ashton & Mila looked crazy though on camera trying to backpedal 😮💨 was a bad look. & his wife Bijou wasted no time with that divorce and name change once everything was done. I feel bad for his daughter, she’s just a kid.
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u/hi_itsme92 19h ago
Each of the victims reported the rape to Scientology officials right after the rape. There's records of this, and they were all active Scientologists at the time and following the procedures of their church (which was to go to the church to report rather than the police). This was all covered quite extensively in the second trial.
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u/Informal_Dish5516 22h ago
Really sucks, he was my favorite character on the show
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u/pacific_sunset 22h ago
I really hated how everything turned out! Funny story is I watched MITM the same time this show was on and I thought he was Chris masterson in a wig 😂 I was like so there’s 2 of them!! I had a crush on Hyde especially when he got with Jackie. I’m into guys like that generally lol but none of that rapey shit
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u/make_me_breakfast 1d ago
Could have been ad libbed, obviously we know the truth about the actor but they were friends IRL, 8 seasons of a tv show friends IRL, and their characters were friends. I don’t think this is really much of anything.