She did in the beginning of the season but stopped after Barb got pissed off about it.
Is Roman going to legally marry Rhonda? All his wives seem to have his surname; is he marrying and divorcing them once he adds a new wife? What is the age of consent in Utah?
She’s currently in “pre-marriage”, and I assume she’s 15 w/ the age of consent being 16. Not 100% sure about that, though.
BTW, I think it was poor editing on Barb’s “back entrance”. Even though they walked her out towards the main exit, she actually did exit in the back-- clealy not the same exit that Bill took and he went the same direction as she did.
No, I think they edited properly for what they intended; it was just such a stupid premise, IMO.
We have to march her out right through and in full view of the hundreds of wanna-be movers and shakers of Utah – who else gets selected but the power players, or rather the wives thereof considering the award category – but after that we have to sneak her out back because there will be even more public exposure outside the front door.
As if there’s a swarm of paparazzi hanging outside the front door ready to pounce. It was a a blatantly stupid piece of writing, to be generous. Your interpretation would paint them as the world’s worst editors.
Based on their inability to write guys or teens convincingly at all, I’m pinning the stupidity of that moment on the writers, not the editors.
Unless someone has another interpretation? (Like, say, they “had” to send her out back for no other reason than to punish her evil polygamist lifestyle by subjecting her to the indignity of leaving via the back door, because, you know, public shaming is nowhere near as bad as the private hell of leaving through a – gasp – back door.)
I hope I’m just completely missing what their intent was with that bit, but no matter how I slice it it fails to ring true for me.
Not to bash the show, though, as I am a big fan and love watching it. Sometimes I think the occasional (every other episode it seems) WTF moment merely adds to the experience. heh. For example, Barb’s back exit bit wasn’t even in the same ballpark as that ridiculous “hey guys, check it out, I’m steering with my hardon” scene.
Personally, I think that living the whole living situation is creepy enough to qualify as sexual abuse even if they aren’t having sex yet, and I think the way Roman touchs her all the time is indicative of something, I really have a hard time believing that he hasn’t seen her naked yet. She certainly has been sexualized and objectified. I once read a story of a young girl whose stepfather started telling her when she was about 11 all the sex stuff her was going to do to her once she started her periods, and I considered her to be sexually abused during that time even though no sex had taken place.
And I haven’t had time to find the episode and rewatch it, but on the night that Bill confronted Roman at home, which wife was in bed with him?
QUOTE=Push You Down]Once it is legal for her to get married they will and then the sex starts. …
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Because they have so much respect for the law out there. If there really was absolutely nothing going on why wouldn’t she live at home until her wedding day?
QUOTE=Push You Down]Rhonda isn’t so simple as to"rather not be living at Juniper Creek". She alternates between loving the status her marriage will give her and having bizarre fantasies about running away to New York./QUOTE]
It’s not that simple at all, but without going too far off topic her manipulations and fantasies ( as well as the constant use of her “adult” status) are all “textbook” consistent with sexual abuse. And of course she’s already insane like every other woman at Juniper Creek.
Your interpretation would make them the world’s worst writers (see below). Frankly, I think the writing is one of the strongest thing about the show.
I don’t know if you’re a guy or not or what kind of crowd you ran with in HS, but that was completely believable to me, based on my own experience. Hell, I have some middle aged male friends who’d be likely to make that comment today!
I guess we’ll have to open a GD thread to debate this properly! 
Because they have so much respect for the law out there. If there really was absolutely nothing going on why wouldn’t she live at home until her wedding day?
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They don’t necessarily respect it but they FEAR it. Roman knows hes going to jail if he slips up in the slightest. That’s why he won’t take her Rhonda until she’s legal. I can recall very few times he’s actually been shown touching her. At most it seems like hand holding. He treats her very much like a cherished grandchild.
Really? I’m sorry.
I still think that the writers really have no clue how to write believable teenage boys…
Yeah. I thought we went over that in another thread and the the resounding opinion was that that was pretty stupid, unrealistic writing.
It did seem silly to march her out the front of the banquet room and then take her out the kitchen, I think it was artistic liberty, first march her through the room for the public shaming, then put her out with the trash.
They don’t necessarily respect it but they FEAR it. Roman knows hes going to jail if he slips up in the slightest. That’s why he won’t take her Rhonda until she’s legal. I can recall very few times he’s actually been shown touching her. At most it seems like hand holding. He treats her very much like a cherished grandchild.
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In the final episode she and Roman were in his office. Right before he went to call the Governor’s Mansion, he caresses the side of her neck and runs his hand across her back. It doesn’t describe well, but watch the scene. I thought it was very sexual, I certainly know that no man has touched me like that unless we were sleeping together.
And I would be skeptical of any grandfather that planned to screw his cherished gradndaughter the second she turned 16.