sara can be a bisexual chad and gary can be a bisexual loser and constantine can be a bisexual nasty piece of work and it’s fine. it strives for diversity and good representation, but it doesn’t care about respectability the way supergirl does. it’s much more about time travel and fantasy and less about today’s issues (though because it is sci-fi it can’t help but comment on today’s issues anyway). supergirl advertises itself as a Feminist Show, grounded in important contemporary issues. that’s due in part to the sort of awkward cobbled-together nature of legends of tomorrow as a spin-off, and also the show’s much more irreverent tone, but i think it’s also a marketing thing. Unlike supergirl, legends of tomorrow doesn’t put that pressure on itself to be an Important Progressive Show. it’s very concerned with Sending The Right Message and Providing Good Role Models and that entails including lgbt characters, yes, but making them as normative as possible, showing cishet viewers “they’re just like you and me!” and showing lgbt viewers “it’s possible for you to fit in after all!” i think supergirl has good intentions and some of what it does with lgbt representation is very important, after all i can’t think of any other superhero shows with a trans woman superhero, but it is nevertheless very frustrating how hard it argues for lgbt assimilation. but yes i think a big part of it is supergirl’s awareness of itself as both a Family Show and an Important Progressive Show. The way you started off this anon message is SO SO funny and i just need to take a moment to appreciate that. they weren’t really ever focused on telling a single story the whole time and that gave the show a lot more freedom and the characters a lot more personal agency where they weren’t constantly bound to being normal all the time because they didn’t constantly do the whole standards thing. but if you read into it a little the we can do whatever the fuck we want attitude spills into the characterization too. it’s been weird pretty much the whole time it was on the air. Like yeah it probably boils down to the show just being Like That. my point is that it was far from perfect rep but it didn’t try and go “we’re just like you!” and honestly i loved it like they do do that but that’s not even remotely my point. as opposed to get married have a kid etc etc. and in that episode it’s the show going yeah sure you can have this. i’m certainly not calling legends good or anything but the hell ikea episode really sticks out to me all the time because ava wants so badly to be normal and the show itself has always had the air of do whatever with your love life. and if you wanted to settle down it had to be through strict guidelines or else you weren’t Normal. my issue with their rep was just that it had to be as normal as possible. forgive me it’s been a very long time since i watched that show but like. you as a gay person were not allowed to just simply have fun. you had to want a future together and kids and all that shit. the ultimate downfall of gay characters on sg was the fact that they had to be so normal. aside from the fact that it was the worst thing the network had ever produced and it’s the first thing i bring up when i tell people i like bad tv, it kind of unfortunately nailed that bit in the crossover.
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