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. 🙂
Listen, I did not see that twist coming in Summerland lol I’m sure other viewers did, but not me! And when it happened, seeing Ava go through all of those emotions was an experience! I fucking loved it and thought “oh my god, how fucking convenient and unrealistic” But yes, finally something corny happens for us. More of this contrived make you feel mushy inside wlw films please!
I KNOW, Alice’s face when she saw the picture! I have that moment on my list to gif but I don’t even know if I can do it justice without the sound, the sheer incredulity and like, Gemma Arterton almost hyperventilating as she looked through the rest of the pictures. And omg, her face when she saw Vera and then Vera withFrank.
And yes, it was convenient and unrealistic and contrived, but that happens all the time in m/f movies! And it’s not even like it was a massive coincidence, Vera had actually spent a lot of effort actively coordinating this. In m/f movies, the climactic suspense comes from whether or not the person who’s more in doubt at that point will forgive the other person or choose to follow their heart instead of convenience or even if the timing will just work out, whatever it takes to show up. And that’s what Vera did! Show up! Like, yeah, it was a bit cheesy and unearned but it often is! We–by which I mean all viewers, wlw or not–are so used to f/f characters separating in historical pieces (even when the book says they stay together, TITTB??) that we’re almost judging it by a different standard, since it’s so out of the realm of normal for us. Not every movie has to be the best movie ever, it can just be watchable and enjoyable, and this super was.