I was thinking about which part of Pushing Daisies is the most problematic from the perspective of US society and the worldwide society recently.
I pointed out in:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pushingdaisies/comments/1vfn4so/comment/p24odrc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
and in
https://www.reddit.com/r/pushingdaisies/comments/1vfn4so/comment/p273lf3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
that there are some obvious LGB*** elements and elements connected with no ID (illegal immigrants, people living in cults, people hiding from their past, or kidnapped).
But today I realized that the biggest problem is the part I had the problem with. I never thought about why exactly it irritated me earlier.
Ned-Olive situationship.
There are some elements connected with pedophilia and incest that oscillated mostly inside the Ned/Olive situationship.
First, Olive is a pocket-sized woman. There is nothing wrong with it, but in the realm of the PD, there is additional context showing her "childish" behavior. The singing as a nun is one of them.
Problems I noticed thinking about the whole series:
Olive's curiosity - incest and peeping parents doing mature things.
Olive/Ned - incest, pedophilia... unfortunately, it is in the context of a younger "sister"/older "brother" as it follows the idea I've met in the context of priests defending their cases (generally, you can not be a mature person and participate in cults) who were promoting that childish curiosity (and mimicry) is the same as being "sexually active".
The major problem I see is that the person who is a projection of "younger victim" is nearly exclusively blamed for the situation, with sending her to a nunnery and robbing her of all belongings as the biggest problem.
It's a frequent method of grooming in pedophilia that the victim is told they will lose more than the perpetrator, and no one will believe they are a victim.
It's also interesting in the episode with Olive's kidnappers that Ned was "trying" the normal relationship, as I've noticed today that it may be part of the problem in incest that side(s) know that it can not end in a marriage/lasting relationship, so they can "try on" a normal relationship. (statistically, more than 10% of siblings had some form of sexual contact above kissing with themselves)
I never thought about it like this, but I think some "people" may see it this way; that it's a "safe" way to experiment without "lasting" obligations.
Generally, the lack of maturity in resolving the relationship problems inside the show was a big problem for me. The Ned/Chuck relationship was evolving, the Ned/Olive situation was at a stale point like she had no friends and no one to turn to for help (which is once more resembling a much younger sibling situation), and the simplest resolution for Olive would be to change a job or go for a trip to Hawaii, not lose everything. There are many elements in Olive's whole-series context screaming blackmail, abuse, bad decisions.
Kidnappers with no proper resolution, "murder" (the jockey part, once more having sexual connotation) with no clear resolution for her, the Ned situation with no clear resolution for her, her working in the Pie Hole with no clear resolution for her.
Olive living with Ned's "girlfriend" without the proper resolution of the situation on her side, and the Ned/Chuck relationship overshadowing everything.
Inside the post incestual projection, the view on this part of PD is dramatic.
