Summerland saw “we deserve a soft epilogue my dear. we are good people, and we have been through so much” somewhere on the internet and said “what if? instead of them kissing at the handkerchief scene, we leave it kinda suspenseful. And we cast 3 new actors to play them after 30 years….. What do you mean why? IT’S THE EPILOGUE….. It is so NOT the same as an happy ending.”
Hahah, that IS a loophole! Just do it for everything, like, oh, you thought they’d separated? One of them had died? Nah, see, they’re totally happy, have been for the last few decades.
we been asking for a trope-filled, well-acted, lots-of-heart, happy ending same sex romantic drama for years. And Summerland delievered. (I would say Carol kinda did too, but the stakes seemed higher on this one, and this is a more diverse cast so, this wins)
I mean, are we asking for just one? 😛 Though yes, this does tick a lot of those checkboxes that maybe others didn’t, especially that incredibly, unequivocally happy ending.
But I wouldn’t necessarily compare it to other movies, especially as a competition. One could also say that Carol and The Handmaiden (the other movie that tends to be mentioned in the same list) focus much more on the actual couple (aside from being considered technically better films) but surely we deserve OODLES more now that Hollywood’s finally actually starting to make them. It’s kind of funny how last year had seemed like such a banner year for historical f/f and then pretty much all of it was bad-end, though of course one of those was the very well received Portrait. Not every movie has to appeal to everyone, but the point is to have enough that everyone gets at least one. Or preferably more than one.
Have you ever watched luimelia? They’re a wlw couple from the spanish series amar es para siempre which is set on the 70s ?
Not yet! But they’re definitely on my list, I hear a lot about them. 🙂
Kat and Adena and Kate and Rana are both ships that were so good and then they did them So dirty
Yeah…my lgbt Muslim rep for a good chunk of time there…. :<
Honestly, I feel a lot worse about Kana than Kadena. When I heard that, even in the first season, TBT hadn’t originally been intending a happy ending for Kadena, I was like, hmm, because that can say a lot about what the writers think of a story, obviously they could have changed their minds and pursued it and really committed, which is what I was looking for in s2, but that’s not what happened. Kadena fell apart because they just didn’t care about them, and that was easy to see, over how many seasons? My investment was slowly snuffed out. It was just never going to be better, it wasn’t the result of a mistake or even multiple mistakes, they just didn’t care about them.
Kana’s ending, on the other hand, was…timing. Timing and a misguided decision. If not for Bhavna wanting out, they could have gone another way, they were committed to them. They built them up so genuinely and yeah, there was that weird baby snafu near the end but it was so sudden. They didn’t end them out of apathy or hate, they THOUGHT they were doing something poignant and everlasting with it. Which I disagree with, of course, but I understand what they thought they were doing. I guess with distance it’s worth considering which approach was right, ending something slowly or quickly. I would prefer neither, lol. :/
Ava ? Clearly, my mind is always thinking of Warrior Nun. My bad!
Lol, I figured. No worries, since mine is too. 🙂