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philcollinsenjoyer · 3 years
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actually to elaborate on something very few care about i think sam and betty are very interesting characters to compare especially as they are both takes on the idea of rebelling against /not becoming your parents. very interesting because they start and go in completely opposite directions. betty is attracted to violence and crime, to rebel against what her mother expects of her, as a way to be the exact opposite of what she thinks her mother is like, only to go in the exact direction her mother ran away from (the southside, becoming a serpent, dating a jones etc etc). sam is the exact opposite because hes rebelling against the violence john raised him in, chosing completely differently a normal life, chosing to be kind on purpose, only to find out he cant run away from that life when his girlfriend endures the same tragedy his mother did, making him the same as his father on his quest for revenge. kind of similar to how betty cant outrun the inherent "evilness" that is in her genes, like sam was contaminated by the demon blood as a baby. its interesting to see both betty & sam as characters running away from their parents but also themselves
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