I loved Katja, and I was so surprised that fandom ignored her so totally I almost wondered whether I was remembering the canon about her starting everything wrong.
My feeling is that Paul is a mercenary who was spying on, emotionally abusing, gaslighting and using Beth so he wouldn't have to deal with the consequences of his own actions, and he was frantically going around torturing people to save his job and cover his ass. It's obvious he didn't give a single shit about Beth; if nothing else we knew about his choices and actions told us that, the way he treated Sarah before he knew she was Sarah would. (Sorry if I'm bitchy about this, but I SWEAR TO EVERYTHING fandom has me at the end of my rope on this. If Paul's actor was not so painfully boring to me I would ship it like a hot potato on the SO SO FUCKED UP scale, but....a romantic or even ambiguous hero he is not. Paul started working in Sarah's favour because she sexually gratified him without more than two whole conversations between them, all of which she was actively trying to escape him in.)
I'm not a gay man, but as a queer woman I'd say beside everything the actor said re: Felix not only are there real gay men who do act like that, and not only is Felix a multi-faceted character who is not solely or even prominently defined by his sexuality (rather he's defined narratively by his role as a brother and friend to Sarah) it's just a part of his presentation - but also he's not the only queer character in the show, which does weigh in on the representation/stereotype scale I think? Cosima is queer (bisexual, by word of God) and she's the other end of the narrative scale, where her sexuality is very casually dealt with and not really a performative part of her personality at all.
Ooh, that's a very good point vis-a-vis Siobhan. I'm really hoping that Siobhan is/comes over to/ends up on their side one way or another, and that they deal with Siobhan and Sarah's thorny and complicated relationship with respect and depth.
I thought they did confirm Amelia just carried them? Someone (someone more qualified than I am to examine the issue) remarked on how fucked up it was, considering the history of black women being used as medical test subjects for the purposes/betterment/future of white people, to use that as a plot point (esp of fulfillment for Sarah) and then fridge her. I was astonished they killed her - or maybe not astonished, but genuinely surprised. It seemed like a pointless waste.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2013-09-16 04:32 am (UTC)My feeling is that Paul is a mercenary who was spying on, emotionally abusing, gaslighting and using Beth so he wouldn't have to deal with the consequences of his own actions, and he was frantically going around torturing people to save his job and cover his ass. It's obvious he didn't give a single shit about Beth; if nothing else we knew about his choices and actions told us that, the way he treated Sarah before he knew she was Sarah would. (Sorry if I'm bitchy about this, but I SWEAR TO EVERYTHING fandom has me at the end of my rope on this. If Paul's actor was not so painfully boring to me I would ship it like a hot potato on the SO SO FUCKED UP scale, but....a romantic or even ambiguous hero he is not. Paul started working in Sarah's favour because she sexually gratified him without more than two whole conversations between them, all of which she was actively trying to escape him in.)
I'm not a gay man, but as a queer woman I'd say beside everything the actor said re: Felix not only are there real gay men who do act like that, and not only is Felix a multi-faceted character who is not solely or even prominently defined by his sexuality (rather he's defined narratively by his role as a brother and friend to Sarah) it's just a part of his presentation - but also he's not the only queer character in the show, which does weigh in on the representation/stereotype scale I think? Cosima is queer (bisexual, by word of God) and she's the other end of the narrative scale, where her sexuality is very casually dealt with and not really a performative part of her personality at all.
Ooh, that's a very good point vis-a-vis Siobhan. I'm really hoping that Siobhan is/comes over to/ends up on their side one way or another, and that they deal with Siobhan and Sarah's thorny and complicated relationship with respect and depth.
I thought they did confirm Amelia just carried them? Someone (someone more qualified than I am to examine the issue) remarked on how fucked up it was, considering the history of black women being used as medical test subjects for the purposes/betterment/future of white people, to use that as a plot point (esp of fulfillment for Sarah) and then fridge her. I was astonished they killed her - or maybe not astonished, but genuinely surprised. It seemed like a pointless waste.