Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191130155818/@comment-14909251-20191218063652

Honestly, these responses just reinforce the problem. Blake turning away from a loving family and acting spoiled with them is rationalized as "Oh, she was abused because of one comment she made once about feeling small" rather than because she spent her entire life committed to a political cause and yet a whole pattern of conduct mentioned and shown from Jacques doesn't seem to get Weiss much consideration at all.

They didn't really sell that Blake was abused and they certainly didn't sell it by Adam's actions after they ended up on opposite sides of a battle. Maybe the problem here is the fact one is familial abuse and the other is potentially partner abuse. With family it is easy to get mixed up in this idea that the older family members are permitted to "discipline" younger family members and the older family members are presumed right by default barring exceptionally bad treatment.