The familiarity factor is probably stronger than we like to think, you know? Like you said, she's been doing this for a long time. I remember arguing with someone once about Martha and they basically felt like she never would have fallen for this guy's line because she wouldn't believe he'd be in love with her. Basically they were saying this is what they would have thought, so felt she should feel the same way.
But I was like well, we know plenty of people who fall for even more obvious cons, and the key thing here is that it happens one step at a time. If Martha hadn't excepted the 12 steps that led her to this point she wouldn't be at the point now. So she's been easing into this slowly and each time making the choice to go along with Clark. It's very normal to her now. When the truth came out this wasn't something that blindsided her completely.
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Date: 2015-08-27 04:35 pm (UTC)But I was like well, we know plenty of people who fall for even more obvious cons, and the key thing here is that it happens one step at a time. If Martha hadn't excepted the 12 steps that led her to this point she wouldn't be at the point now. So she's been easing into this slowly and each time making the choice to go along with Clark. It's very normal to her now. When the truth came out this wasn't something that blindsided her completely.