anon · 2mo
Feel free to ignore, but I just wanted to know if I'm the only one who gets weirded out by the Pearline/Sammie age gap?
Like, I don't like Pearlineas as a character. Not sorry. I thought it was weird how the movie played it like she was Sammie's lost love. And apparently only love if he's still naming a club after her. Even though she was a grown ass married woman pursuing a babyfaced 19(?) yo Sammie. If she was a man, twitter would be calling her a predator, which she was.
On the other hand, I love age gap Sammick. And I think the difference is that Sammick is fanon, our playground, so it's whatever. We can get freaky. But Pearline/Sammie is canon and I'm supposed to see it as romantic? Nah, it's weird.
i feel more neutral towards Pearline. Her pale, pale moon performance is too captivating for me to slander her but in general I dont feel touched with the canon ships. they're all het and problematic in ways i dont care much (Annie being the perfect all understanding patient wife of Smoke who bailed on her for years would piss me off if I think about it for too long) and Stack/Mary just dont strike anything in me. always roll my eyes whenever a het ship puts the woman (FORCES) the woman to be in excessively understanding, doting position.
Pearline being cougar is actually more interesting to think about but canon het ships in general are never able to make me feel anything remotely as intense as my non-canon ships.
Sinners having freaky characters are par for the course, but i do understand treating canon ships differently than non-canon especially in a movie with this far-reaching audience. i guess i can't dislike pearline/sammie more because of irony; they used to be the getcha ship to throw sammick shippers off but now they're revealed to be problematic as well, it just tickles me lol
