Yeah. *sighs* Hitting Tragic Doomed Gayness and Crazy Violent Black Guy within the same ep -- really, Being Human, FAIL LESS.
I mean, I liked Carl qua Carl, for the "he would not have been ... kind" and for all the implications his story has for the show's worldbuilding and for Mitchell (that Mitchell is not the first vampire to go on the wagon or to have a human lover, and that even vampires who've been "clean" for ages can fall disastrously).
But dammit, when you have one canonically queer character on the show, you do not make them Tragic and Murderous.
Ditto with Saul. Especially with the "rival for Annie's attention" being white.
And they badly need some Annie storylines that do not involve her being assaulted.
I'd be less disappointed with a different show, but with BH, I expect better from them, because in general I've been fairly impressed with them on the non-fail front. Not that there are any 100% fail-free shows out there, but still. DO BETTER, SHOW.
And the medical staff and the police officer's mocking of the dead guy ... okay, yes, I do understand that it was the characters doing the mocking, and that we are not supposed to sympathize with them
Yeah. I sort of liked the mocking as a writing detail, because it hit the sort of casual homophobia and disregard you hear in those situations, and it felt properly jarring against our knowledge of Carl as a person and Mitchell's friend. But given the willingness to depict that, the show should have done better and had other LGBT characters before now. I mean, you don't get to win points for showing homophobia as bad when at the same time you're perpetuating the stereotyping yourself.
(However, I'm fairly hopeful that they won't be fridging Nina; there's been too much promo blogging stuff showing her as an integral part of the cast. Fingers crossed.)
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I mean, I liked Carl qua Carl, for the "he would not have been ... kind" and for all the implications his story has for the show's worldbuilding and for Mitchell (that Mitchell is not the first vampire to go on the wagon or to have a human lover, and that even vampires who've been "clean" for ages can fall disastrously).
But dammit, when you have one canonically queer character on the show, you do not make them Tragic and Murderous.
Ditto with Saul. Especially with the "rival for Annie's attention" being white.
And they badly need some Annie storylines that do not involve her being assaulted.
I'd be less disappointed with a different show, but with BH, I expect better from them, because in general I've been fairly impressed with them on the non-fail front. Not that there are any 100% fail-free shows out there, but still. DO BETTER, SHOW.
And the medical staff and the police officer's mocking of the dead guy ... okay, yes, I do understand that it was the characters doing the mocking, and that we are not supposed to sympathize with them
Yeah. I sort of liked the mocking as a writing detail, because it hit the sort of casual homophobia and disregard you hear in those situations, and it felt properly jarring against our knowledge of Carl as a person and Mitchell's friend. But given the willingness to depict that, the show should have done better and had other LGBT characters before now. I mean, you don't get to win points for showing homophobia as bad when at the same time you're perpetuating the stereotyping yourself.
(However, I'm fairly hopeful that they won't be fridging Nina; there's been too much promo blogging stuff showing her as an integral part of the cast. Fingers crossed.)