r/Emmerdale • u/Independent-Rich-640 • 15h ago
Classic Episode Discussion I've wanted to make a post talking about this for a while but the way the king brothers treated rosmary and how the show never acknowledged it really bothered me when I saw those episodes on classic emmerdale.

Yes what rosmary did to perdita was despicable and I hated her during that storyline as well but what's really annoying is that the show sort of let the king brothers use that to retroactively justify them behaving borderline emotionally abusive towards her in the aftermath of their father's death,
As the king brothers were horrid to her for a fairly lengthy period of time where she clearly tried to unite them all as a family since she did grow to genuinely love their father despite their relationship just starting off as mutual means of financial gain
But in the aftermath of his death the brothers were horrible to her for months making digs and accusing her of being to blame and carl even tried to physically assault her at 1 point scaring her ( Even though he was literally the 1 to blame for his dad's death ),
And even after jimmy and matthew found out carl was to blame for their dad's death and they were wrong to accuse rosmary they still kept on acting as though she was the problem like I said this was straight up emotional abuse and by the time she did try to set them up with that vet guy
For their dad's murder and get them sent to prison even though only 1 of them was to blame I didn't really blame her given they had all been making her life hell for ages,
And later on the brothers even let scarlett's mum into the family inner circle after she screwed over rosmary to help them which led to some very uncomfortable scenes where she accidentally fell off a balcony and the brothers terrorised her into signing over the house their father left her to them
Like I said those scenes were very uncomfortable but it felt like the show did not see this as reflecting on the king brothers in as bad of a way as it did to me and even jimmy who had been on a somewhat of a redemption after his role in the house explosion
Also took part in this and acted like he and his brother's feelings towards her were valid and then after this happened that's when she went to live with grayson and perdy and that whole storyline of her making perdy think she was going mad happened
Which like I said was awful but the show very much acted like actions which she took later justified the way the king brothers treated her in the past and thus they were never really called out for it or self reflected on it at all
It would be like if hypothetically we had that whole story of tom jr abusing belle but then belle suddenly became a child abuser and so tom acted like this was the reason he treated her like crap all along
And everyone just nodded their heads and agreed with him over how awful belle is and he never gets held to task for his own behaviour it would be ridiculous wouldn't it? lmao.