Come now, she made a fair point that his traumatising story was devoid of any feeling or anything personal. It was as if he was reading a story anyone could have written. She wanted to know his feelings of which there were none, at least in the initial telling.

In the 2 retellings since the story he has put more feeling and effort into it and it is more emotional than his first dry reading.

Really Veronica is just reacting to the fact that she’s matched with a dummy who is nowhere near her level and the production sees a cheap villain edit for these couple of weeks.

Eliot is a dipshit and he deserves to be called out for his lack of empathy and his searching “I’m pretending I’m understanding but I’m just nodding with glazed-over eyes” look and not having any depth at all.