completely predictable complaint
Nov. 14th, 2011 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitI'm watching Sanctuary 4x06, "Homecoming." Those who know me and watched the episode may be able to predict what I'm about to say next: So, now we have canonical heterosexual romance for the Big Guy. That makes, oh, let's see here . . . every single fucking character.
Not that I wasn't pleased that "Monsoon" established Helen as bisexual, finally. I thought it was fairly well handled and I wish Helen's new girlfriend had stuck around, because she was cool.
But I do feel like it's also the same old "it's okay for women to be bisexual on TV and in the movies, especially if they're hot" trope, to which the corollary is almost inevitably "but all the men are straight." (Or if they're not straight, they'll be killed off, THANK YOU SO MUCH WAREHOUSE 13.)
There've been hints of some kind of John/James thing, true. But hints don't cut it.
Also, the fact that Helen's relationship with a woman was just a fling, and we're probably never going to see that character again, does make it stink a little of sweeps week lesbian kiss.
ETA: I just read someone else's review of the episode, so as to see what I was in for, and apparently it's mostly about Will's backstory. Which I don't care about. Maybe I won't watch the rest, or at least not now.
I think I may be over Sanctuary. The last episode I felt really gripped by was the season premiere; not even Tesla's presence in the last episode did much for me.
Not that I wasn't pleased that "Monsoon" established Helen as bisexual, finally. I thought it was fairly well handled and I wish Helen's new girlfriend had stuck around, because she was cool.
But I do feel like it's also the same old "it's okay for women to be bisexual on TV and in the movies, especially if they're hot" trope, to which the corollary is almost inevitably "but all the men are straight." (Or if they're not straight, they'll be killed off, THANK YOU SO MUCH WAREHOUSE 13.)
There've been hints of some kind of John/James thing, true. But hints don't cut it.
Also, the fact that Helen's relationship with a woman was just a fling, and we're probably never going to see that character again, does make it stink a little of sweeps week lesbian kiss.
ETA: I just read someone else's review of the episode, so as to see what I was in for, and apparently it's mostly about Will's backstory. Which I don't care about. Maybe I won't watch the rest, or at least not now.
I think I may be over Sanctuary. The last episode I felt really gripped by was the season premiere; not even Tesla's presence in the last episode did much for me.
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Date: 2011-11-15 06:06 am (UTC)Henry is gay, as far as my head canon goes - there's no other way to interpret those first few episodes. And Biggie's not human, he has his own culture, and I seriously doubt it's heteronormative. (Which is a sucky word to use in this context anyway.)
Just, bah. They're Abnormals. I don't want to watch a show about "Normals".
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Date: 2011-11-15 03:49 pm (UTC)That sums up almost everything I think is going wrong with the show: shoehorning in a bunch of tedious rom-com crap, focusing on Will the Dull again when the show at its best was an ensemble, and generally normalizing everyone (and not just sexually). Even the Big Guy isn't allowed to be any different from humans. (One of the things I loved about the first couple of seasons was that he was very different, and unapologetic about it.)
Biggie's not human, he has his own culture, and I seriously doubt it's heteronormative
One of my head-canons (I have several) for Biggie's people was that the men and women lived in separate groups most of the time and only came together for a couple of weeks a year to mate. Meanwhile, both sex and long-term relationships happened among the men (and no doubt the women too, although the Big Guy didn't know for sure, obviously). Children were raised by women for the first couple of years, then boys were handed over to the men to bring up.
Among other things, I really liked the idea that while adolescent!Henry was struggling a bit with his sexuality, the Big Guy was there to say, "Actually, those human (and western) norms are not the only way to be."