Coerced consent is not consent.
The Time Traveler's Wifehas been a little complicated from the get-go, even a little on the dicey side. The show does its best to confront that issue, but make no mistake about it – everyone, characters included, know the central romance is more than a little bit creepy.
She only knows this because he told her. Similarly, he only knows this because a future version of her told him this on their first fateful meeting. They've built themselves their own paradox over the years, with each being as much to blame. Let's fill you in. Until this moment, in Clare's timeline at least, the pair have never been sexually attached in any way. Two years before, Clare was raped by a jock named Jason from her high school, something which ultimately culminated in Henry announcing she was his future wife during an attack on said rapist.
The rape is never mentioned again besides that flippant comment from Future Clare. Instead, it's swept under the rug and never spoken of again beyond her revenge moment. But what it does do is make her decision in episode four that much more perplexing.Knowing he always arrives naked, Clare has become accustomed to giving him old clothes of her father's, safely hidden away for when he drops in unannounced in their tiny piece of garden paradise.
In no uncertain terms, Henry declines her suggestion, informing her flatly:"I made rules to this when this all started and I'm not breaking them."And yet, she perseveres as"she's his wife" at least in the future. Just an FYI: Marriage isn't automatic consent either.In the framing of the series, it's an odd one.
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