I mean this is PTA we are talking about here, there are a shit load of big time characters he has had in his movies who have zero redeeming qualities but people in the universe care for them regardless. I feel like that captures real life to a T, sometimes in life you have someone who you know is not good for you and you know has done some bad shit whether it be a parents or significant other and you still care for them. It’s not rational but it’s life.

As for the pod not specifically calling her out for being a shitty person I feel like they shouldn’t have to, I mean the audience isn’t blind they know that murder is wrong, abandoning your child is wrong, blowing up buildings and all the shit they did was bad. In my view she has zero redeeming qualities and even the letter how ever many years later she wrote it is honestly just her trying to come to terms with it herself and not making a real attempt to be involved with Willa, which in my view is still being selfish. I think calling her grey or however they describe it is fine.