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Kevin and Winnie "relationship" is getting old.

posted 9 years ago by xdaysx
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This is my first actual watch through of this show because it's on Netflix. I'm on season 5.

The whole Kevin and Winnie thing is really getting old. In one episode they are shown as being like Romeo and Juliet, meant to be together, strongest bond ever, Winnie + Kevin 4ever, Kevin is head over heels for Winnie and she's the only girl for him, and then in the next episode he has the hots for some other random girl. If he loved Winnie that much why is he flirting with other girls? I know he's just a kid but if the show is going to be that way, stop showing Kevin and Winnie as having some inseparable bond. They obviously do just fine without each other. I don't give 2 figs about them ending up together.

[–] hitchcock_blonde 9 years ago

No kidding!!! I was actually just going to come on here and post about that. I watched the show when it was first on and now I'm rewatching on Netflix. I'm on Season 4, episode 20 where she is in the car accident and breaks her leg. I am so effing sick of Winnie Freaking Cooper!!!!

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[–] xdaysx 9 years ago

Yes! The car accident episode! At the end he's all Edward Cullen-ing at her window and they both say I love you and then almost in the next episode he's crushing on some other girl! Holy crap!

[–] zerlinde6 9 years ago

Yes, but she got into the car accident because she was riding with a guy she had a crush on. Kevin was concerned and he expressed his concern to Winnie, but she didn't wanna hear it. If he didn't love her like the fool he was, why would he try to protect her? And if Winnie really loved Kevin, she would've recognized that and would've at least consider what he was saying. But she didn't, did she? She treated him like garbage, as usual.
Yeah, he mouthed that he loved her, but I felt at that time he was beginning to recognize that dealing with Winnie would always include some warped roller coaster ride, so I say more power to him for expanding his horizons.

[–] hawai502003 9 years ago

" Edward cullening "! Hahahah ! I love it !

[–] pd3145 9 years ago

Teenagers are weird. Especially the good looking ones. They tend to be players who string people along and dump them at will. It's a constant back and forth with them.

I had more common sense than those 2 clowns in high school, sticking with one then moving on when it didn't work, not cheating behind their back.

Scary to think Kevin settled down and had a baby by 25. Maybe he got the girl pregnant. They stuck with it back in those days.

[–] Ultrashiver 9 years ago

I couldn't agree with you more - Seems like they were breaking up and getting back together in quite a few episodes - Great show, but it was getting really old fast.

[–] kalexschroeder 9 years ago

I'm almost done rewatching the show now, and, honestly, I don't feel these kids really had much of a "relationship" (in the sense that they're officially going steady with each other for the "six-and-a-half" years Winnie claims they have been in season 6--I think the episode is "Sex and Economics" or "White Lies"... idk but they were making out at the Pointe when she says it). Winnie always seems like she's "met someone else" most of the time, they both flirt and cheat with other people, Kevin always meets a new girl the weekend before school starts... They both definitely pine for each other, but I don't get the impression that they're actually together as a couple for most of the show, and it seems that when they are Winnie gets the backburner screentime-wise (unless the episode's about sex). Thinking back to the episodes and the show's timeline, my impression is that they're officially together for about 2 school years.

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[–] willywonka35 9 years ago

That's a great post Wizzleteats and an excellent breakdown but in reality they were never truly a couple. From season 2 until literally the final episode they are basically just good friends(off and on) while Winnie goes through a series of boyfriends and flings.

I feel sorry for Kevin. The series is from his POV and while he appears to view her as verging on a saint, the audience can see what she truly is...a manipulative slut. She takes advantage of Kevin and only likes him when she is between boyfriends. She'll play all innocent with Kevin, then when her friends come over to talk to her(like when they were skating), she instantly changes into another person...the real Winnie. Any time Kevin wants to make a serious move, she pulls back. The scene in the car when Kevin tries to kiss her and she turns her head is their entire "relationship" in a nutshell.

While its never shown onscreen for obvious reasons, it is implied that she is sexually active. She is always dating older boys and when doing so, they're not going home to eat apple pie with mom.

I find the series finale to be completely absurd. He runs after Winnie and when he gets there, she's already got a summer fling going. If he had any dignity whatsoever, he would have walked away.

I love this series but when watching it as an adult, I see Winnie for what she truly is and not what Kevin(and me as a child) perceived her as.

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[–] timpolcha 8 years ago

I couldnt have said it any better myself. In fact I just made a post that after recently watching the show on netflix (as an adult) Winnie was just plain horrible to Kevin.

[–] elaphe-1 8 years ago

You guys are being too hard on Winnie. Sure she didn't always treat Kevin well, but she was a confused teenager. And she was a slut? When is it ever implied that she had sex with anyone?

[–] timpolcha 8 years ago

I never said she was a slut. The fact of the matter is though she was horrible to Kevin. She was constantly breaking up with him/cheating on him and always seemed to go back to him when other things didnt work out for her.

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[–] Hardestwork98 (596) 6 years ago

Yeah why chase after a girl that does not like you waste off time

https://youtu.be/evzGr5GYJfQ