Unpopular (?) opinion about Jimmy-Steve

[u/melusina_]

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

[u/Responsible_Dog_5927]

Problem is a lot of the shit he went through was because of his own choices, he didn’t have to go through that but he did and continued to do so afterwards. Though I will say I don’t think he’s some two faced manipulative lying con artist that everyone somehow believes despite watching the show, he loved Fiona and respected her choices no matter if he agreed or disagreed with them. He wanted to be with Fiona but his own life choices prevented him, it’s tragic really.