I didn't get the sense that Gemma went through "all that isolation and grooming" because she was a possible candidate for the ceremony -- just that nobody outside the "community" could be trusted, at least as a possible boyfriend/intimate for a girl in the community.tigerlilylynn wrote:I don't read it as jealous but rather bitter. She had to go through all that isolation and grooming so seemingly no reason. That'd piss me off to.
And I didn't get a sense either of jealousy or bitterness on Gemma's part, just of greater experience and wanting to help. She says something about Bree being "grown up," and Bree did seem grown up in the last few videos about/with Daniel, but the "Hi Gemma!" vid took us back to the goofy little-kid Bree we saw in the beginning. Gemma seems far more mature by contrast. (And that's why Bree was friends with Gemma's dog and not with Gemma -- Bree was way too young to be Gemma's friend. That's also why Gemma couldn't possibly be Bree's "competition" for Daniel -- Daniel's too young for her. Not to mention that he's in another country. Yousef may be going to London, but we haven't heard any mention of his character Daniel doing so.)
I think the point of emphasizing that Gemma wasn't chosen for the ceremony is to underscore that Gemma didn't have as important of a role in the cult, and that's why she was able/allowed to get away.
I also think Gemma's been added to provide the perspective of somebody else who knows the cult from the inside, and who can underscore the dangerous aspect. I posted in the "Nut man squirrel" thread in the fan videos section about all the references to death in Gemma's first two vids. Sounds like "the community" was used to bad things happening to people? That's why/when they rang the bell.
I don't like her anymore. It's like she is telling Bree she has to participate, saying it isn't her decision to make, yet, Gemma made her own decision to be independent. So, why, would Gemma be defending the religion she questioned enough to move away from.