[clever as a pike]
Dec. 12th, 2021 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tellitslantI DON'T KNOW HOW TO TALK ABOUT THE WHEEL OF TIME WITHOUT CAPSLOCK BUT IT'S ACCURATE BECAUSE I AM REAL-LIFE SCREAMING
IT IS!!! BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS!!!!!!!
I just... cannot... believe??? That this show went 'ah yes, the most powerful person in this prestige fantasy world is a queer Black woman, and by the way her female lover is the central protagonist and their relationship is the driving force behind the narrative,' and then... put... all of that explicitly on screen...
I am entirely not joking when I say that my 'calm down, don't get overexcited' wildest dream coming into this was that they would nod to this relationship with longing glances across a room? And then they cast SOPHIE FUCKING OKONEDO as Siuan Sanche and THEN they gave her an entire cold open of backstory (with a beautiful portrait of tender Black fatherhood to boot) AND THEN let her and Rosamund Pike destroy the screen with soft touches? And put a fully-realised, adult relationship with decades of clear history in the text, not just the subtext? AND EXPLICITLY MADE THEM SOULMATES?!?! And then tore them apart in an horrifically tragic way because what ties them together and also forces them apart is their noble quest to save the entire fucking world!!!
I can't get over that this happened, I can't get over that it's good, I cannot get over that all these choices were made to bring this relationship forward and weave it inextricably into the foundation of the entire fucking show. WHEN do we GET that in a MAINSTREAM, PRESTIGE SHOW? We don't. We don't!!!
In the books, the relationship exists but is mostly in the past (although the mission is basically the same), and both women end up with different men at various points of the rest of the journey. I was fully on board with getting some bi/pan representation on screen, but having seen how full and romantic and deeply intimate and desperately tragic and beautiful this relationship is, I am now absolutely ride-or-die for them as endgame. (Not that this precludes other relationships in the interim, but.... endgame or riot, I am not joking.)
I have literally. Cried about this. ...on work calls (a coworker ASKED, OKAY). Because. Twenty-five years? Twenty-five years I've wanted to see Moiraine on screen, and half-dreamt that she and Siuan might be at best acknowledged? Getting so much more than I dared to hope for has broken me. I am undone.
uhhhh anyway more queer people making queer television, is what i want to see (and be) in the world.
IT IS!!! BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS!!!!!!!
I just... cannot... believe??? That this show went 'ah yes, the most powerful person in this prestige fantasy world is a queer Black woman, and by the way her female lover is the central protagonist and their relationship is the driving force behind the narrative,' and then... put... all of that explicitly on screen...
I am entirely not joking when I say that my 'calm down, don't get overexcited' wildest dream coming into this was that they would nod to this relationship with longing glances across a room? And then they cast SOPHIE FUCKING OKONEDO as Siuan Sanche and THEN they gave her an entire cold open of backstory (with a beautiful portrait of tender Black fatherhood to boot) AND THEN let her and Rosamund Pike destroy the screen with soft touches? And put a fully-realised, adult relationship with decades of clear history in the text, not just the subtext? AND EXPLICITLY MADE THEM SOULMATES?!?! And then tore them apart in an horrifically tragic way because what ties them together and also forces them apart is their noble quest to save the entire fucking world!!!
I can't get over that this happened, I can't get over that it's good, I cannot get over that all these choices were made to bring this relationship forward and weave it inextricably into the foundation of the entire fucking show. WHEN do we GET that in a MAINSTREAM, PRESTIGE SHOW? We don't. We don't!!!
In the books, the relationship exists but is mostly in the past (although the mission is basically the same), and both women end up with different men at various points of the rest of the journey. I was fully on board with getting some bi/pan representation on screen, but having seen how full and romantic and deeply intimate and desperately tragic and beautiful this relationship is, I am now absolutely ride-or-die for them as endgame. (Not that this precludes other relationships in the interim, but.... endgame or riot, I am not joking.)
I have literally. Cried about this. ...on work calls (a coworker ASKED, OKAY). Because. Twenty-five years? Twenty-five years I've wanted to see Moiraine on screen, and half-dreamt that she and Siuan might be at best acknowledged? Getting so much more than I dared to hope for has broken me. I am undone.
uhhhh anyway more queer people making queer television, is what i want to see (and be) in the world.
