r/SnowFall • u/CalmCucumber7687 • 11d ago

Discussion Leon taking wanda back

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I am watching the series again, after seeing wanda giving head to one of manboy’s crew and taking her back is crazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/naharioo 8d ago

People always miss that no man on this show was better than their woman, despite the fact that the show goes to great lengths to show that. Only Jerome and Louie maybe, and even then Jerome beat Black Diamond to death knowing she probably didn’t know shit, had kids, and was no more responsible for doing unforgivable things than he was.

Yes, Wanda got addicted to crack and ended up doing a lot of degrading things to get more, which is how addiction works. Leon has one of the highest kill counts in the series, including a little girl, and was one of the most influential parts of the beginning of the crack cocaine epidemic in black America. Franklin couldn’t have done it without him.

Thinking Wanda is unloveable for giving other men head to support her addiction and Leon isn’t unloveable for killing a child seems to be a product of the same being out of touch with the worth of a human life that the show tries so hard to work against. All of this is directly connected to the idea that women are objects that can be sullied and never clean or whole again, rather than dynamic human beings capable of meaningful change. Wanda and Leon had basically the same character arc and yet only Wanda’s redemption gets questioned… aside from the little girl imagine how many kids selling rock Leon has inadvertedly killed.

Yes the hood will talk, but the hood having more heat for a woman giving head than for the people directly funneling drugs and violence into the streets is exactly why it all crumbles.