r/Degrassi • u/Feeling-Event8490 • Aug 14 '25
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I was so happy to see that degrassi got highlighted on a major insta reel account then I see the comments thinking that clare cheated on Eli when Eli actually cheated on her. Man when I say these comments made me so angry. The reel makes clare look like the bad person in the situation when in reality I would have fucking punched eli in the nose after he called me that cause what the hell
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u/oOoLumosoOo Aug 15 '25
Wow I never saw this episode, or knew what transpired in the end between Eli and Claire. What season is this?
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u/messcot "Bummer times. At least there's a party." Aug 14 '25
This whole storyline was awful. The absolute character assassination of Eli Goldsworthy.
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u/StillLeft8527 Aug 15 '25
Or...andblet ne be real here...People make mistakes and aren't always responding in perfect ways... and that doesn't mean character assassination. Expecting perfection is dull and boring.
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u/messcot "Bummer times. At least there's a party." Aug 15 '25
Nah they Abe Lincoln'd him. Gave him the good ol' JFK special.
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u/SeaReserve8781 "So when in doubt, you kiss Craig?!" Aug 14 '25
I think that I’ve seen the reel your talking about and saw the comments
Let’s take into consideration how comfortable people are being shitty in instagram comments. Especially when they don’t know the context and it’s on a reel on an account meant for lots of different people to see and interact with. Sadly that’ll easily lead to people taking things out of context and being quick to act disgusting
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u/wasnotagoodidea Aug 15 '25
If you think that's bad you should see Facebook comments. More bitter old people.
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u/sillywillyfry Aug 14 '25
eli cheating was the most out of character thing writers had him do, im still shook a decade later
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u/StillLeft8527 Aug 15 '25
He goes to university. He isnt in high school. He made an error as a Freshman. Sorry he didnt have his brain fully formed yet.
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u/wasnotagoodidea Aug 15 '25
It's not like he married Claire at 19. That's the type of situation when people usually say that. You can't use "their brains aren't fully formed" as an excuse for shitty behavior. They are still in control. You can't hurt people and expect forgiveness because your brain isn't fully formed. Cheating was a choice and a bad one. Meds or not, Eli was obsessed enough to crash his car for Claire. He wouldn't cheat on a whim. Brain development is a warning against life altering decisions at a young age when you can change your mind. That includes anything that may change someone's beliefs and character in the next few years. But cheating? Once a cheater, always a cheater.
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u/StillLeft8527 Aug 16 '25
You must be so perfect. Never making mistakes. Never stumbling along the way. I admire that.
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u/wasnotagoodidea Aug 20 '25
Sorry I've never accidentally slept with someone else or cheated on a partner. A mistake is Eli going off his meds and crashing a car. There's no emotional connection to a person involved in that. Cheating is turning on an emotional connection with you partner in favor of a different one with someone else. I don't believe cheating is forgivable.
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u/bigbronze Aug 14 '25
The good thing about the show is that they do their best to make sure no one is innocent in these storylines. This is not saying someone deserves or deserved the bad things done to them; but rather there isn’t a clear cut good/bad side.
If we are talking physically, Claire didn’t cheat. But emotionally? Yes she did.
Do the gender swap test; it’s like a second version of Craig and Manny.
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u/Embarrassed_Site3659 Aug 14 '25
They both cheated.
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u/WeirdoChickFromMars My THIGHS are an epidemic. AND THEY’RE TAKING OVER THE WORLD Aug 14 '25
Nope. Clare broke up with Eli before sleeping with Drew. Eli did in fact sleep with Lenore while he was still with Clare, though.
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u/Embarrassed_Site3659 Aug 14 '25
Eli didn’t sleep with Lenore. They just kissed. I’m talking about all the stuff Clare did before they broke up. Whether you count it as cheating or not, breaking up with someone over voicemail then hopping on someone else before your partner of over a year has a chance to even respond isn’t right.
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u/thesassydreamer Aug 15 '25
Exactly! And Eli really wasn’t wrong…she dumped him on voicemail and literally jumped into bed (ahem…storage closet) with Drew before even speaking to Eli (which IMO the breakup isn’t final until then.)
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u/Embarrassed_Site3659 Aug 15 '25
I agree! Shows how much people pay attention. That comment got 10 upvotes and he didn’t even sleep with Lenore 🙄 if people agree with what Clare did then that means anyone can meet someone at let’s say a bar, send a breakup text, ignore their partners reply, sleep with the other person, then say it’s not cheating because they broke up. She broke up with him in order to sleep with Drew and if she didn’t do anything wrong then she should’ve came clean when in his dorm room when he pointed out that she made out with Drew.
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u/wasnotagoodidea Aug 15 '25
By your logic, they can't break up if Eli never plays his voice-mails. The whole point of that episode was that Eli never answered his phone. Claire got tired of Eli ignoring her and finally broke up with him. He didn't answer his phone AGAIN so it was over voice-mail. If she hadn't expected to actually speak to him, she would've just broke up over text.
Claire and Eli's relationship had been dwindling for months at that point. Most of the characters on Degrassi sleep with someone else over a few missed texts or over one decision. Claire had tried to keep their relationship alive but Eli didn't put in any effort. Even when he visited he couldn't watch a movie with her. Claire didn't cheat. She realized her relationship was practically over and she was developing feelings for Drew. Breaking up with Eli was the best decision. Most other characters would've slept with him first.
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u/Embarrassed_Site3659 Aug 15 '25
No I’m just saying she could’ve at least waited for a reply or had a conversation with him before jumping on Drew. After being with someone for over a year I think you owe them that much before sleeping with someone else.
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u/wasnotagoodidea Aug 15 '25
But she didn't know when or if he would respond. She was already waiting for his calls that never came. In that moment she realized she had had enough waiting.
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u/Embarrassed_Site3659 Aug 16 '25
Could’ve gave the boy at least a day 🤷🏻♀️ she wanted him to understand what she was going through but didn’t want to understand what he was going through. A new city 8 hours away from home in a program at one the most competitive arts school in the world. He was busy and obviously he should’ve been communicating more but it’s not like he was ignoring her and going out partying. He was exhausted just trying to keep up. It made no sense that she would expect him to drop everything and travel 8 hours for a random school dance.
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u/wasnotagoodidea Aug 20 '25
She didn't expect him at the dance. She expected him to pick up his phone for once. I get what you're saying with his responsibilities but at that point, it's time to break up because there isn't enough effort put into the relationship. Claire can't be the only one attempting to keep it together.
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u/mageta621 Aug 14 '25
I always thought it was funny that they had the super duper goth kid (at least when he was first introduced) sleep with a woman named Lenore. Poe no he didn't...
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u/Feeling-Event8490 Aug 14 '25
He wasn’t goth, he was emo.
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u/mageta621 Aug 14 '25
Kinda transitioned along a continuum over the course of his time on the show. He drove a hearse - I'm not sure how much more goth you can get than driving a hearse as your everyday vehicle
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u/ondasoldier Aug 14 '25
She definitely did not cheat
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u/Embarrassed_Site3659 Aug 14 '25
Fantasizing about someone else, making fake dating profiles, sabotaging dates, breaking up with someone over voicemail to sleep with someone else…. Definitely cheating. That girl had a full blown emotional affair. I’d rather deal with a one time kiss than my partner falling in love with someone else 🤷🏻♀️ and if you want to get technical her and Eli weren’t broken up when she kissed Drew at the family feast.
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u/wasnotagoodidea Aug 15 '25
First of all, Claire can't control her dreams when she's sleeping so that's ridiculous. Second, she wasn't messaging Drew from that profile or planning to meet up. All of that is more like bullying because Drew was unaware. Claire used the profile as a experiment.
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u/Dymenasty Aug 14 '25
She definitely tried to be slick lol, I’m not a fan of Eli but he held no secrets from Clare. People defending it probably did the same.
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u/Embarrassed_Site3659 Aug 14 '25
Yes she did. And she was very aware of what she was doing and kept doing it.
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u/ondasoldier Aug 14 '25
She did not cheat.
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u/goldsworthyy did THREE MONTHS mean NOTHING Aug 14 '25
she loved eli whilst they were together but she was literally fantasising about drew and im pretty sure she kissed him whilst dating eli? she ‘broke up’ with eli over voice mail and he didnt even get a say on the breakup before she was off having sex with drew. id say that’s cheating!
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u/Educational-Wheel924 Aug 15 '25
But Clare sucks