Hey there, it’s me. This is just me sharing my opinion on the new special since it panders towards me in a sense.
I agree with every point the special is making; not every movie needs to be this big preach.
Like, as a gay person, I’m tired of Disney, HBO, Netflix, all these big companies that make a blank state out of great material.
Of course there is great gay shows - (The Owl House, Atypical mm.) but those have something else to keep you watching where the gay is front and centre.
Let me use The Owl House as an example. A teenage girl is thrown into a world of demons and must traverse her way back to the human realm.
Cool plot point, right? However by Season 1 episode 16 “Enchanting Grom Fright” it’s made clear that there is going to be a lesbian relationship between the human girl and a demon girl name Amity.
However, they address this in Season 2, Episode 8 “Knock knock knockin on hooty’s door” where Amity and the human girl -Luz get together.
And that’s the last time that it was brought up and the show continued like normal, just with them being in a relationship
I’m getting sidetracked, my point is - there can be homosexuality and social issues in a show with out it “pandering”.
And it also feels like by Disney that they’re trying to “make up” for past homophobia so now they’re really just pushing gayness on to everything they can and use it as a sort of shield, if that makes sense.
Anyway, this is just one gay person’s opinion, feel free to comment your own - straight or not. If you read all this - thank you.
I think you your argument is pretty solid.
Most modern shows today think that their show is supposed to have a gay character as a requirement to pass some diversity test and they then proceed to make that character’s value centre around their gayness and almost nothing else. Basically they are the token gay person.
There is also a lot of soap box rants and preaching about who are the heroic victims and who are the villains shoehorned in there to meet some sort of perceived obligation. Especially when it comes to the concept of what they think feminism is.
A show that uses diversity well is the expanse. All the preaching about bigotry there is mostly based on the cultures between Earth, Mars, and Belters. With some future rich vs poor classes sprinkled in for fun.