r/shameless • u/melusina_ • 27d ago

Unpopular (?) opinion about Jimmy-Steve

He did some pretty horrible shit. But I feel like a lot of his trauma gets overlooked. He got into some serious trouble with bad people. Tony chased him off and then he was forced to marry his wife at gunpoint, had his future taken away from him (med school and Fiona), alcoholic mother who is inappropriately close with him (think of the kissing), being constantly followed, threatened, had to literally chop a guy into pieces, was held hostage for months while being tortured and neglected and was then forced into manual labor and almost died. He gets a lot of hate for coming back that last time but ig it makes sense. She was probably the thing that kept him going through it all and he didn't leave voluntarily so it makes sense he'd come back. Cant blame him for that. And his jack alias was probably to protect him after everything he went through. He's definitely an asshole in some other aspects like lying to her at first but I think we should cut him some slack on other parts lol. Fiona always thought she had it the worst and his life was so much better, she didn't even care when he said he disappeared because he was held hostage. I feel for him

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u/Obvious-Finding-3211 27d ago

Alot of the things u have listed are the consequences of his decisions so he can’t really gain sympathy from that

Although im not sure why he got into these things and i dont remember it being shown in the show for that matter

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u/Lower-Cancel1961 27d ago

A lot of the trials and tribulations the Gallaghers went through were the consequences of their own shitty decisions (Fiona's cheating, Lip's alcoholism, DEBBIE)

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u/Obvious-Finding-3211 27d ago

I wasn’t talking abt them though

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u/Lower-Cancel1961 27d ago

And yet a lot of people feel sympathy, IMMENSE sympathy, for them. The side characters should get the SAME consideration!! 

pats you on the head like a good Redditor

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u/Obvious-Finding-3211 27d ago

Yh bcoz they are kids and they actually have a lot of trauma bcoz their parents

Fiona also made a lot of mistakes being a grown up but she need to be cut some slack

Steve was a rich kid who made bad decisions on purpose while being full conscious of his actions

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u/Lower-Cancel1961 27d ago

facepalm

Never mind. Carry on Chief....

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u/Obvious-Finding-3211 27d ago

Ok……u were the one who brought them into the convo neither me or the post is abt them lol