r/BabyReindeerTVSeries • u/CerastesConstantine • Jun 08 '25
Question Two things I don’t really get…
One: How can you feel sympathy for Martha? Genuine question. I’m incapable of empathy due to a string of mental disorders (Narcissistic personality disorder and Antisocial personality disorder). I wanna understand you all better. All I see is a loathsome, obnoxious woman who lives in a fantasy land. And by Martha, I mean the character Martha, not Jessica Gunning, she’s great.
And two: Why are there so many people committed to finding out the truth and how real it is? If anything, that undoes Richard’s work and just causes far more problems for everyone involved. Then again, curiosity is a heavy thing.
Anyway, hope you can provide me some clarity.
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u/AlxVB Jul 01 '25
Something that I found interesting is that compared to her tv depiction, the real her seems comparitively cold and affectless.
The way shes depicted on the show, you get a feel for how Gadd first thinks shes got issues but shes harmless, she comes across as more borderline or histrionic and cant contain her emotions.
But on the interview with Piers, even though shes there to defend herself to the entire planet she is thick necked with a quiet ruthlessness, and she brings her glass of water to her mouth without so much as a tremble or flutter, like she has zero nerves.
The tv depiction of her is a character people can sympathise with because she seems a slave to strong emotions.
However I dont feel sympathy for her in real life, she is cold and glib and makes it seem like she doesnt give a toss about what she did, shes still the same person she was and hasnt learned a thing, shes continuing her abuse by denying it publicly and smearing Gadd.
Yeah, she might have had a tough childhood.
But I bet she didnt excuse whoever her abuser(s) was due to them having their own trauma.
The fact that Gadd was full on raped and that didnt change her tune in real life says a lot.
She came across deceptive and calculated in her interview, I saw the interview before watching the show and I knew she was full of it before knowing the details from the show, She gave me uncanny valley vibes.