redd.it/653jc4 -My Original question based post on reddit.

I finished the show with impeccable concentration to understand everything and finished it in straight 12 hrs .Before I go to sleep, these are my questions (some include fatal flaws of character development)

How much of it was mistaken like Zach’s letter? Why did she think he threw it away. And looking at Zach it feels like even he needed to be loved and must have stopped stealing her.In my opinion , I think that though Hannah cannot be considered a perfect narrator but because of this broken narrative , it shows how perspectives can have a huge impact on a situation. Zach liked Hannah but maybe he did/didn’t stop stealing this compliment letters which led Hannah to believe he threw it whereas in reality Zach safely keeping it close in his wallet as a reminder shows how much of a good human being he is. Zach is really a part of the spectrum of teens the show highlights. A kind-hearted high school jock who is better than his friends group and also requires praise and accompaniment to motivate himself evident of him understanding why Marcus wronged Hannah and he sat with her just so that she could ignore her but he didn’t leave because he wanted to support her.

And I really agree with Marcus on his take on why it is bad to leave evidence. I mean killing yourself is a bad thing enough not only for you but also people who love you (eg. Parents / Clay). I mean she decided not only to take her own life but also leave evidence for things causing her death because to court , Tyler will be as much as an offender like Courtney though Tyler loved her but that will not be an excuse in a court. I hoped that Hannah would have said something in the last tape as to not incriminate anyone except Bryce since his was a real horrendous crime and others hurt her , some knowingly, some unknowingly. All high school phases are like that and every one goes through that phase of bullying but I understand her decision since Bryce was the final trigger for her , as if a signal that now it should be ended.

I do understand it from her point of view since even Clay did nothing but in my opinion he was insecure and he was entitled to it. Hannah admitted Clay didn’t deserve to be on those tapes but she did say that she wanted clay to console her. She knew how socially awkward he was and when she shouted on him to get out, obviously she was feeling sick because of her past but how was Clay supposed to know with it ?

My main prob is with leaving evidence.I understand Tony is lovable and we all need him in our life and probably Hannah was too wound up trying to take her own life that she never must have though what would happen if the tapes got out when Clay/Tony may decide to release tapes to do her justice and prevent future rapes ??? Did she not anticipate this and how she might be ruining other lives to some extent. ( Bryce is a dickwad…he deserves it ) I really wished from the beginning her to leave some instructions on to only accuse Bryce of a crime since the others were done without thinking in self-defence(We all knew that something very bad must have killed her and eventually tapes would end up with officials. Predictable plot ). This really made me sad. But hey , I guess that shows we are imperfect (Maybe Tyler becomes a school shooter in season 2 ( like Tate in AHS season 1, but Clay prevents him since now he is reaching out to those in need like Skye ?. I really want a bit of more back story on Skye and her friendship with Clay if there’s a second season.)

The only person who’s portrayed as “good” in this story is Clay — someone who, if Hannah had only given him the chance, could apparently have helped her. He’s set up as a socially awkward male savior, and that positions his pain at the loss of Hannah as one of the ultimate tragedies of the series. That’s … off. Setting him up as victim and hero puts too much weight on his story, and too much shame on Hannah for “failing” to turn to him. Is it sad that Clay is devastated by Hannah’s death? Of course. And her parents’ pain is one of the aspects of the show that’s hardest to watch. But Hannah knew they’d be devastated. She chose what she did not out of cruelty to them, but because her pain outstripped that knowledge, and she deserves compassion.

The series is so enamored with this idea of Hannah as someone who does things to others that it neglects to tell us who she is herself. That’s not only a failure to tell a story to its best and fullest extent; it’s a missed opportunity on a broader scale. People with mental illness are so frequently stigmatized and misunderstood — seen as bad, or wrong, or somehow defective. When others have a clearer understanding of how mental illness works, they’re less likely to stigmatize those who suffer from it. While it’s not the responsibility of a TV show to single-handedly undo stigma around mental illness, 13 Reasons why doesn’t go as far as it could to let us empathize with Hannah.

Marcus and Courtney were the usual bitches who cared more about their rep. I can understand Courtney on her having difficulty to accept her sexuality since her childhood must have been a hard ride due to her being a daughter of two gay dads. Something which was made fun off by the younger students obviously and which Courtney hated.

Alex was on the other end of the spectrum. He decided like Hannah to shoot himself. Guilt can be a very strong emotion which we can see through his character. He even tries to drown himself at Bryce’s in the pool but somehow gathers courage to stop it. He felt guilt for escaping the deposition for Hannah’s investigation and considered his list to be almost equal as Bryce’s actions since even that was on the tape showing it to be part that killed her.

Justin Foley is just a bag of bad luck. He didn’t spread the pics or rumors , Bryce did. Again he was too drunk to stop Bryce , his financial and moral support saviour from raping Jessica and he eventually lost Jessica try to protect her emotionally from the pain of being raped by not telling her. Plus, the intense abuse at home is just an added heartache. His story shows how everyone have their own struggles in life.

Jeff was a bit drunk and the old man was talking on his cellphone to his wife. So mainly the fault was of that old man but obviously that broken stop sign played a major part in causing the accident and Sheri was devastated to realize it. As repentance , she meets the old guy’s family on some weekends and even eventually accepts her fault to the police and turns herself in . We know that the accident had occurred before Hannah successfully contacted 991 so Sheri informing her infarction to the police immediately would have yielded no results unless they had decided to act as a traffic police on the cutting till the police came to do something about the sign which is highly improbable.

JEFF was the real MVP. From the Dance to dollar valentines to the Party. I absolutely related to him and somehow not to sound evil but his death was more devastating than Hannah’s . We need more Jeff’s in this world.

At first after finishing the series , Hannah seems to overrate her dramas a bit but in foresight , she actually has a strong position on her decision. She is a 17-year-old new girl in a new school. All of us at that age seek for social acceptance , popularity , love. She found all of this but in a profoundly negative way. As a slut with the best ass based on rumors and a list . Weak love in Justin Foley and played by Marcus on a date for being ‘easy’ . Hate from former close friends like Jessica and disappointment in Zach , Courtney , Tyler and Alex. She even accepts that Clay could’ve helped her if she had let him , but she was emotionally too weak and haunted by soul-crushing past to share with Clay. In her position , everything that mattered went awfully awry and options ended up to be pretty bleak after Bryce and Mr.Porter’s actions. She lost everything that she wanted and was both physically and sexually abused and just like a decaying leaf in autumn on a confounded ivy vine , she choose to leave her slight grip on life and let go. She wasn’t really close to anyone , not even her parents or Clay to discuss this and one after another her spirit and soul suffered blows of something she never deserved. By leaving those tapes she tried to inform the people who hurt her , how every action has a butterfly effect…….not as evidence. She was so disgusted with life that she didn’t even want to think of a future of her or anyone else’s and thus decided to make the tapes as a preventive caution to the people for their actions and inform them to stop another person from suffering what she did. Thus her take on matters is very heavily justified by her since she lacked the emotional willpower to continue living her life with such a haunting present.

There isn’t really a happy ending to “13 Reasons Why.” The final moments provide Clay and Hannah with a sense of closure and justice, but so many other characters are still hurting, their paths unclear.Maybe it’s better and more realistic that way.

Any and all kind of thoughts, contradictory or supportive or theories , everything is welcome. I would love to have more of your insight on the topics discussed in this blog and maybe you can provide with a satisfactory answer to the overshadowing questions we all have regarding this refreshing retake on modern teen’s life by Netflix and the Jay Asher

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