You really can't give too much weight to preliminary character descriptions; they're like a "first draft" of characters and are almost always modified before the characters are finalized.
Garcia was originally characterized as a very overweight Hispanic man - obvious change there. Mandy himself said (about Gideon) in an interview: "We don't know if he's divorced, if he's ever been married, if the rings [he wears] are wish rings, who this 'son' is that's been mentioned..." So nothing in those original descriptions can be regarded as canon.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Elle is a rape survivor. However, I really didn't see her action in "Aftermath" as a response to her fear. I think that when the rapist (speaking of her mistake in arresting him too soon and spoiling the case) said "You've made a lot of women very happy", the full magnitude of her fuck-up flashed into her mind and she realized that she had let a monster loose. And I think she made atonement (in her own mind, anyway) by killing the rapist and her career with a volley of pistol shots.
ALL our heroes are damaged, in one way or another. One of the themes this show constantly circles back to is how people deal with trauma, how "Some people grow up to be killers. And some people grow up to catch them." The same life experiences that shape a monster can also shape a hero. What makes the difference? And what makes one person bend where another breaks? Are we all at the mercy of our bollixed up endocrine systems? Where do choice and personal responsibility come in? IMO one of the neat things about this show is that it doesn't try to give us definitive answers to these questions; it's more of a discussion than a lecture, if that makes sense.
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Garcia was originally characterized as a very overweight Hispanic man - obvious change there. Mandy himself said (about Gideon) in an interview: "We don't know if he's divorced, if he's ever been married, if the rings [he wears] are wish rings, who this 'son' is that's been mentioned..." So nothing in those original descriptions can be regarded as canon.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Elle is a rape survivor. However, I really didn't see her action in "Aftermath" as a response to her fear. I think that when the rapist (speaking of her mistake in arresting him too soon and spoiling the case) said "You've made a lot of women very happy", the full magnitude of her fuck-up flashed into her mind and she realized that she had let a monster loose. And I think she made atonement (in her own mind, anyway) by killing the rapist and her career with a volley of pistol shots.
ALL our heroes are damaged, in one way or another. One of the themes this show constantly circles back to is how people deal with trauma, how "Some people grow up to be killers. And some people grow up to catch them." The same life experiences that shape a monster can also shape a hero. What makes the difference? And what makes one person bend where another breaks? Are we all at the mercy of our bollixed up endocrine systems? Where do choice and personal responsibility come in? IMO one of the neat things about this show is that it doesn't try to give us definitive answers to these questions; it's more of a discussion than a lecture, if that makes sense.