majesty wrote:My interpretation of the Jody Barsh situation is what others have suggested: Rayanne slept with Jody's boyfriend or her crush. Something along those lines, because Sharon mentions that Rayanne uses people, and later in the series tells Rayanne (after the betrayal) that "this is what [she does] to people", as if she done it before.
I just rewatched "Betrayal" last night, and I'm pretty sure that Sharon says, "because that's what you do" as the first part of the complete thought: "Because, that's what you do, when someone's your friend" in response to Rayanne's accusation that Sharon couldn't wait to run and tell Angela the truth. Rather than pointing out a bad record of Rayanne's, Sharon's trying to make the point that out of the two of them,
she knows what it is to be a friend, and that she does, if Rayanne does not, have Angela's back.
I totally get why people think the Jody story must have something to do with a boy and what happened between Rayanne and Jordan, but I always get caught on two things when I pursue that theory:
1. I still trip over the word "used" rather than "betray" or something similar if the story is that she got with Jody's guy. I just can't see the Rayanne Graff I've come to understand as a person who would premeditatively befriend someone just to get a guy away from her. A. I don't think she's that cutthroat B. I can't think there's been a guy she's ever felt that strongly about getting. [It could be that I'm paying too much attention to the word choice, and the writers were just writing
something in the pilot and as there wasn't a real back story for it, we can't hold too closely to the precise diction, but, as much as possible I try to avoid doubting the writing like that (of course, there are the apparent contradictions of the basement & Brian's sister).]
2. Sharon says this so early on; Angela doesn't yet have any kind of connection to a guy for Sharon to say, 'She'll use you, just like she did Jody Barsh". Clearly a person that would knowingly mess around with a friend's person is in general not a great friend to have, and so it would make sense that Sharon would still warn Angela away from her, boyfriend or no. But, something in the way she says it always makes me think that there's a more immediate possibility Rayanne could readily repeat the transgression against Angela.
But, I don’t know… That’s why I chose it as my namesake; I like how unknowable the story is : )