I haven't seen it yet. Honestly I've never been clear on if Page wants to play primarily gay roles or not, especially in this kind of thing (the nerd bait media she was known for before her career got fcked over). Obviously, I think it'd be cool if she did
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @perdricof
Bur, like, I also find it hard to believe that Netflix would have refused to make her character gay in the first season if she had asked, since it would have required only small tweaks to the plot (changing one character's gender) and Gerard Way would totally have supported that
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @perdricof
So tbh I kind of assumed Page was intentionally using Umbrella Academy to say "hey look I can still play a straight girl to get the male nerds interested." Maybe I was wrong though
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @perdricof
My guess is that this is one of the many things that the season (which feels like a soft reboot anyway) is doing in response to fannish reaction. Like, suddenly making Luther a lot nicer to Vanya after everyone got mad about him being a dick in S1, or downplaying Luther/Alison.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @BootlegGirl
s1 is about a family locked in a cycle of abuse. the monocle was an abuser, pogo was good enabler, and luther, diego, and to some extent alison all learned those behaviors and are passing the abuse on what's *frustrating* is how long the show takes to admit this
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl
I honestly feel like it doesn't really get there until S2. In S1, I never believed that these people were a family. In S2, they're a dysfunctional family trying to figure out how they work now that their abuser is no longer in the picture.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @BootlegGirl
yeah s2 actually gets to the real affection between the siblings, whereas s1 had almost no affection between them at all in that respect it feels more believable as a weird fucked up family, for sure
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl
I've been rereading my tweets about S1 and it's glaring how little affection I felt between the siblings. My main problem with the show is that it hangs the survival of the world on the healing of a family that to me felt like it wasn'st worth saving.
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It's intentional and it's supposed to be cynical and dark afaict -- what if the people you love and care about most in the world you still don't love and care about very much It makes sense, but yeah it's hard to take
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I think it's something that could work, but it would need much stronger writing that the show just doesn't have access to.
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That's a Jonathan Franzen quote, in fact -- "It's possible to love someone more than anyone else in the world and still not love them very much" -- which, despite its banality, kind of socks me in the gut every time
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