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Was there ever any disgust -

posted 10 years ago by davidsmith666999
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I see a lot of Lux hate. A lot of people who enjoyed different parts of the show. I don't see any posts about the Eric/Lux relationship. How did that make it to network TV for almost a full season? I thought they didn't have a sexual relationship. But, I'm pretty sure Lux said near the end that they did. Which is pretty disturbing. He really wasn't any better than the foster dad. Terrible, disturbing plot-line.

I get the fact she felt a connection to him, and he understood her. Also, that when he first met her, he thought she was an engaged bar waitress, which would automatically make her over 18. But, still... Icky is putting it mildly.

[–] bergie15 9 years ago

I'm rewatching the show now. I love love this show, but I always hated the Lux/Eric storyline. It always creeped me out. He should have gotten found out way sooner.

[–] jen_78 9 years ago

Just finished watching it minutes ago. They never had sex. The night he got found out, when she planned the whole candle-light thing at Tasha's, she was planning on sleeping with him, but as you know, he never made it there.

But yes, it was a bad relationship. That was the point.

[–] lauren_m775 9 years ago

At the same time as Eric/Lux was airing the Ezra/Aria relationship was happening on PLL. I remember someone once commented that the 'Ezria' ship was so much better and i was like...yeah, because Life Unexpected KNOWS that relationship is unhealthy. PLL is glorifying it. That kind of relationship should make viewers uncomfortable because it's wrong. Life Unexpected did a really great job with it.

[–] sexbunnyalex 8 years ago

Yeah, the relationship was disturbing. Especially once you realize that Lux probably thought it was normal because of what one of her former foster fathers did to her. I think Eric realized that too. Of course I actually like Lux.

[–] khp-491-369033 8 years ago

I also felt disturbed by it. But I agree that the show did a great job of displaying it. PLL glorified Aria and Ezra to the point where I forgot or just didn't care how wrong it really was. Life Unexpected made me understand why both people were in the relationship and made me very conflicted, because I found myself semi rooting fore them, but at the same time the show never allowed me to forget how deeply wrong it was.
But I also think it could have ended a bit sooner though I understand why it didn't..

[–] pcleary99 8 years ago

Just finished binge watching the first season which I loved and halfway through the second season which is headed downhill fast. HAD to write to express my disappointment at the Eric/Lux story line. They dance around it like it is a slight faux pas . . . It's creepy, wrong, at least a misdemeanor even for Oregon and possibly even a felony. What, no adults with kids on production staff to stop the sleaze train. Cripes.

[–] pcleary99 8 years ago

Forgot to add last pet peeve - nobody says "I love you", ever. All that emotion and caring and bonding and wedding and mother daughter reunited and . . . nothing but banal drivel, "it will be alright" or some such nonsense.

[–] Henrietta_S 8 years ago

But, I'm pretty sure Lux said near the end that they did. Which is pretty disturbing. He really wasn't any better than the foster dad.

Just because it would be roughly the same to a judge does not mean that it is the same. Lux and Eric was always a consentual relationship. Lux and Trey, that was abuse.

There's a hell of a difference.

And I am not saying that it's good that they were together, student and teacher. But it started without them knowing this fact about the other one - so there is a reason to tell oneself "It's not that bad".
And as far as student-teacher relationships go, this one is fairly healthy - everything is consentual, and there is never any abuse of power.

This was a beautiful depiction of an accidental student-teacher relationship - they both kind of knew it was never going to work out, he more than her, probably. But they had genuine feelings for each other, which allowed this to be such a tragic pairing: It could not work out. They knew that. And it wasn't even one of these pairings where the student is almost done with school, or almost eighteen, so there was no way it would work out.

It was never fully okay, but they both knew it, and it was refreshing to see the relationship reach it's natural conclusion without as much unnecessary drama as so many other shows would have done it.

[–] theworldastage 8 years ago

I never bought Eric liking Lux. Although she had to "grow up"/"mature" fast in some ways because of the life she had, she also didn't seem sophisticated enough for him.

Plus it was too much having three love interests in just over a season. For someone supposedly being a "real" character, she was a Mary Sue in that sense.

I've only see the show once when it was on air. Perhaps if I watch a second time, I may have a different opinion.