I can hardly believe my
eyes.
So, am I correct in assuming that what he's saying is that because Tara was not "troubled, twisted and desperate," that the manner of her death cannot be cliched? I understand what it seems he's getting at, but he's very much missing the boat.
If the purpose of those cliches is to reinforce that lesbians are bad and need to be punished, what does it say then when the lesbians are
good and yet still are punished?
He also seems to be saying that by making Tara "vibrant, alive, self-sufficient, funny, sexy, compassionate, strong and learning to stand on her own two feet," and
still killing her, they were in fact subverting that cliche. Am I reading this right?
Because, again, there goes the boat way over there.
How many times will it have to be said that one of the central issues here is
when and
where Tara was killed. Just after making love and at the very foot of that bed.
And, come on, our own homophobia, our own prejudice? Because we saw a lesbian, character traits notwithstanding, killed and and another lesbian turned evil immediately after sex and in the most intimate of places, their own bedroom, and we failed to take into account that Tara was really, really
nice? Please.
Which brings us to the
other half of the cliche, which he fails to address at all. The Evil Lesbian. All these boats, and he just keeps missing them and missing them and missing them.
And Jane? I'm not even going to dignify that with a reply.
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