Thread by @redcoast

*Sigh* Episode 3. I can't be as detailed. I'm losing energy.

We start with audio of Scarlet talking to police. It sounds like her criminal complaint was about the bath tub incident only, which I think is important to note, not the times he alleged he anally raped her.

This despite her saying that the abuse didn't really start until after the bath tub incident.

In other words, if what she says is true, instead of reported the worse instances of abuse, she just reported the tub thing.

https://x.com/redcoast/status/1808610726891958516

Then again, her statement that abuse got worse kind of contradicts what she said in the What's App message when she said "even though it began questionably, eventually it was undoubtedly consensual"

https://x.com/redcoast/status/1808627562232623604

The police officer seems to be telling her that her accusation, on the face of it, isn't enough for a conviction. He also says they haven't interviewed Neil or Amanda. (They were out of the country.)

Neil told the journalists that when he heard about her police complaint, he hired an NZ lawyer and offered to give an interview. The police declined to give him one.

Scarlett asks the police if anyone has "come forward." The police officer says he's looked into it based on her earlier statement and "found nothing." She says that's it, then.

Now the journalists are describing how they went around the world (virtually, I'm sure) speaking to women who knew Neil, trying to dig up more dirt. They say they talked to a female friend of 12 years. She says she'd "go to the wall for him on this."

She has nothing bad to say about him. Next, a female friend of a decade and a former lover, who says she has a great time with him and has nothing bad to say about him. They describe her as "liking rough sex" and "enjoying it with him." We don't hear these women's voices.

"You'll hear all sides as we try to find out if Scarlett is alone." I mean, we're making presumptions again that he's guilty.

They're talking about Neil Gaiman's semi-autobiographic novel about his childhood. I've never read it. I suspect they are wasting my time again.

Gaiman grew up in Sussex in the 70s! They meet a local woman who immediate shows them "the ocean at the end of the lane," something he wrote about from his childhood. She sounds like they're proud of him here.

They're talking about Neil Gaiman's childhood as a Scientologist.

To sum up, Neil's dad was high up in the Scientology church and Neil was raised in it. After Neil finished school, he worked for the org for a few years, but his dad was declared a "subversive person."

That's what Scientology does when they don't like you anymore. They say Neil got up to OT3, which is pretty high. I wonder if he signed that billion-year Sea Org contract.

They say that Neil's dad was accused by Scientology of sexual misconduct, which doesn't mean much, because it's the church of Scientology. This is what they do.

Oh my god, their Scientology expert just said what I said, that these accusations don't mean much. So why even bring them up?!

They asked the Church of Scientology about it and the church replied that their question "was in bad taste." LOL

Anyway, Neil Gaiman is no longer a Scientologist. This all seems pretty irrelevant. Now they're talking about him writing comic books.

I'm almost 30 minutes into 5 minutes of content.

Is Neil really that famous if you have to explain what he's famous for? "He was in the Simpsons and the Big Bang!" Come on, this is irrelevant.

Oh my god, they just said that Sandman was the first comic book to get a female audience.

Now they're reading his Tweets out loud. We know, he's very liberal.

They're reading his Tweets about sexual assault and accusing him of hypocrisy. They're actually doing the Norm MacDonald bit:

There's only a minute left in this episode and so far, there is no content.

In the last seconds of the episode, they say that a second woman from years ago made accusations against Neil Gaiman, and Luke Scarlett, her account is contradicted by contemporaneous messages. That's how they describe it.

And *like Scarlett

Well, that was a waste of time.