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PoM – never saw Ugly Betty, so can’t say anything about that character. But maybe it was something like I (and others) had with Star Trek’s Wesley Crusher, couldn’t stand that character but was never able to nail, why not. I love Wil Wheaton by now, great geek, great guy, but still have a hard time watching any episode with Wesley in the middle of attention. And they didn’t even tell such bad story with him at times. Interesting that some people have some problems with Henry, might be something similar. And now I am already straining my head to find a female character as example, lol.
SAME. Wil Wheaton is *great* but Wesley Crusher, to this day, annoys the living daylights out of me. Wunderkind extraordinaire.
Though there are some clear examples, there are as well some debated ones, like an episode from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, where the Dax symbiont meets a former spouse but both are now in new hosts, and renewing their romance is something the Trill society forbids
Great episode. And I love Dax overall. Dax and the Trills are a great example of the fluidity of sex and gender. Dax, the symbiotic, (for people unaware) had several hosts of its lifetime, both sexually male and female. And of course, it’s just very Star Trek that most of the surrounding characters don’t experience any oddness over her changes in gender. (and you wanna talk about gender roles….the entire arc of Quark and Rom’s mother and Nagus’s eventual retirement to let modern ways come forth)
Or, another example, whenever DS9 goes to the Mirror Universe: Mirror Kira is obviously bi-sexual, whereas “our” universe Kira is really only interested in the opposite sex. Though, lol, of course, she ends up falling deeply in love with someone who’s whole nature is fluid and who could literally be anyone or anything. And speaking of the Changelings…I’m sure we could write *pages* about the Changelings
(I am deeply in love with DS9)
I agree that there are things ONCE would do that I wouldn’t like–only showing villainous LGBT characters for example. Or being so overly flamboyant that they become a characteriture. Felix, on Orphan Black, is flamboyant but he’s also very real and, like everyone, is complex and layered. He doesn’t just show up in something skin tight and speak like a flamboyantly gay man. He has ranges, like everyone.