>>86532159Also, and I know mentioning this will trigger some people here, but it annoyed the shit out of me how they kept stripping her agency bit by bit during the season. When all her backstory was finally revealed it was shown that her entire life from here childhood to her being forced to seduce Matt to actually falling in love with him to having to chose between her boyfriend or her daddy figure was utterly defined by the men in her life. She had zero outside agency in the story.
It made her a total cipher by the end of the story. She had zero life as a character beyond daddy issues and her loving Matt, and the treason around her tragic backstory had no weight behind it because they never actually defined what that backstory meant. She was just a shiny object for Matt and Stick to fight over, nothing else.
It sucks because S2 actually gave the other side characters really solid arcs. Watching Foggy man up and tell Matt to go fuck himself was satisfying as hell, and despite how goofy the "ace reporter" thing was with Karen her whole strange, intentionally uncomfortable relationship with Frank was equal parts depressing and kind of touching. Elektra just played the blank waifu.
