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I don't think they're dating yet. That ship is still setting up its wind sails.wiseguy wrote: Amber is going to cheat on Gary
All the rest, I am with you on it being morally suspect (especially and specifically including the time she tricked Gary into having sex with her, which meets MY litmus test for rape, but I'll not try to convince others to share that opinion), but this one is just good sense. Nathan wanted to take advantage of both her and Dillon, actually DID take advantage of their vulnerability as actors in order to satisfy his sexual cravings. He was considerate enough to value them as people, in his own way, and made sure they were adequately compensated for their compliance, even if Amber did have to prompt him to push out his parameters on what was "adequate."Spidrift wrote:She's also willing to use sex to extract an apartment worth hundreds of thousands from a susceptible man.
I don't remember this. Care to link it?Spidrift wrote:Also, her respect for Dillon's feelings for Gary was misguided, and she was able to assuage it by scaring Dillon half to death.
Please don't anybody think that I have some kind of big moral objection to Amber. She's just another member of a cast which mostly consists of not-very-bright or over-excitable people who keep doing dubious things. I don't mind that, because they're (a) fictional, (b) funny, and (c) sexy. I just don't think that Amber looks any better than the rest of them.wi1dfire wrote:All the rest, I am with you on it being morally suspect ...
But looking at it another way, she took a hormone-addled idiot for tens of thousands of dollars worth of apartment. I'm not going to judge most of these characters for taking advantage of each others' idiocy and runaway hormones, because idiocy and runaway hormones are what the Ma3 universe runs on (and I'm not going to judge Amber for engaging in prostitution, because that's not something I believe in judging), but a scam that big goes beyond the "prank" level into the realm of taking advantage of the downright psychologically handicapped, and for all we know making a serious dent in his and his family's financial position.wi1dfire wrote:...but this one is just good sense. Nathan wanted to take advantage of both her and Dillon, actually DID take advantage of their vulnerability as actors in order to satisfy his sexual cravings. He was considerate enough to value them as people, in his own way, and made sure they were adequately compensated for their compliance, even if Amber did have to prompt him to push out his parameters on what was "adequate."
It never hurts to help. Not something I consider a terrible crime, especially as the victim was Dillon, but it does suggest that Amber's sense of morality is a little wonky.JTheCreator wrote:I don't remember this. Care to link it?Spidrift wrote:Also, her respect for Dillon's feelings for Gary was misguided, and she was able to assuage it by scaring Dillon half to death.
Humor me for asking, but how exactly was this a scam? Nathan went into it eyes wide open. He never thought either Dillon or Amber loved him (which, actually, he quite possibly could have built a relationship with Dillon), never thought the apartment and job security was compensation for anything other than that one night. Amber manipulated both him and the situation (and Dillon), but he could have balked with far fewer consequences than Amber and Dillon faced if he didn't cave.Spidrift wrote:But looking at it another way, she took a hormone-addled idiot for tens of thousands of dollars worth of apartment. I'm not going to judge most of these characters for taking advantage of each others' idiocy and runaway hormones, because idiocy and runaway hormones are what the Ma3 universe runs on (and I'm not going to judge Amber for engaging in prostitution, because that's not something I believe in judging), but a scam that big goes beyond the "prank" level into the realm of taking advantage of the downright psychologically handicapped, and for all we know making a serious dent in his and his family's financial position.wi1dfire wrote:...but this one is just good sense. Nathan wanted to take advantage of both her and Dillon, actually DID take advantage of their vulnerability as actors in order to satisfy his sexual cravings. He was considerate enough to value them as people, in his own way, and made sure they were adequately compensated for their compliance, even if Amber did have to prompt him to push out his parameters on what was "adequate."
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