Except that Quinn isn't a random member of the sorority. She's the Vice President, she's in charge of the pledging process, and she's Maya's "mother." Furthermore, if Maya asks Sage to change mothers because she isn't comfortable with Quinn, Sage will reprimand her and ignore the concern. In your analogy, Maya didn't ask a patient; she asked the receptionist, then tried to ask the doctor - only to be told to listen to the receptionist.
You can rail against the plot point as much as you want, but Maya did ask the appropriate authority about free tuition and had it confirmed. It's not Maya's fault the authority was lying to her.
Yes, Zirael, I'm quite serious. In my experience, a parent determined to control their child can do at least as much damage as well-meaning but incompetent (or even absent) parents.
You say Patrick cares for Maya in a twisted way, but isn't that exactly what we see with Rox in the flashback? And isn't that a possible interpretation of what we see with Buddy in the present? Quinn had a family (real and surrogate) that does seem to care about her in some manner. Maybe they did a terrible job of it, or maybe it's just a case of looks being deceiving. But if we really want to get into a pissing match about who's upbringing was worse, we're going to need to compare more than just 1 sentence synopses.
We've seen very little of Maya's upbringing and most of what we know about Patrick is second hand. We've seen 1 snippet of Quinn's childhood and an even smaller snippet of her current relationship with Buddy. That's not enough to make any real determination.
But I do reject the idea that Quinn must necessarily have had it worse just because Maya's family was traditionally middle class. There are too many ways to fuck up a child for it to be that simple.
Eh, context matters. Had Maya slapped Josy because she agreed to join the HOTs, I think the reaction would have been a lot more negative for Maya. And the MC's fighting can vary quite a bit in how it's presented. Beating Troy is hardly shown in a heroic light, whereas fighting Caleb to a standstill is.
I'm not seeing the confusion here.
That was how I felt at the end of Season 1. The problem is that since then we've seen Tommy struggle with (or even challenge) his worst impulses, whereas Quinn's response is always to double down on them. That's why I was so disappointed by the scene with Tommy and Quinn at the end of Episode 7. Making Tommy seem like the bigger man is no easy task, yet Quinn pulled it off.
Let's hope so. But that's why I say it's going to be a long process.
Quinn is actively resisting the opportunity to change right now, even with people trying to help her along the way. If Tommy apologizing to her didn't make a dent in Quinn's psyche, then getting Quinn to change is going to be a very difficult process that can't even start until
*something* pretty serious happens to her.
I worry about what it will take, and what will happen to Quinn on runs where she won't even let the MC get close enough to help in the first place.
