About Vida, I loved the first season but I couldn’t keep watching after they wrote out (and I still don’t know why) Cruz. I really liked her and she and Emma were so cute together :(

I like her too, there wasn’t much of her but I thought they’d flesh that out in the second season, not write her out completely, heh. 

And I know that I get really attached to the first love interest and that’s just not really tenable the more canon f/f we get in dramas, with their lack of endgame, but still, it was more how they treated her that bothered me. Even in the first season, the difference between her and Johnny was apparent, but I’d have handled a breakup better if we’d seen them try at it and just not be a good fit and not, you know, because the writers so clearly wanted to move on. It’s just, we’ve seen enough f/f to know when that’s happening.

It’s great that the wlw character has multiple love interests but it’s an interesting trend and has certain connotations wen they’re the ones with rotating love interests while the m/f ships are between central characters introduced in and developed since the first season. 

And a very different anon:

Season 2 of Vida is soo much better and Emma and Nico are way more shippable soo super recommend. Season 3 looks super promising too

It definitely looks like Emma and Nico have more time and story than Emma and Cruz, but that would not be difficult to have! 😛 I definitely don’t want to not ever watch this super queer show and Roberta Colindrez is so hot, it’s still on my list, I just will probably not get to it any time soon.

And a different anon:

Oh man, I’m a different anon but I hoped you liked Vida too just because I like to read your opinions on scenes or things that happen in shows. I really like Vida but I’m literally a Mexican-American from LA so I really connect with the show on a personal level I guess. I hope they eventually release Jarina’s music from the show because it’s been killing me that I can’t get it. Maybe not killing me but you know…

Awww, thanks! And awww, it’s great you can appreciate the show on that level. 🙂 Hopefully Tanya can make more shows like this. And I hope you get your music! 

Last TV season my fave 3 wlw ships were Kate/Anya, Emma/Cruz and Charlotte/Lady Fitz. I’m 0/2 now. If anything bad happens to C/LF I’m sorry, I’m cursed. BTW I was sad Anya was never mentioned again and the show treated it like it never happened. But it got canceled before Kate and Leonard happened and we all know it was going to happen so I’m okay with Kate getting a good ending for herself. But I’m pissed the way Vida retconned Cruz. The disrespect. I can’t even watch/support the show now.

Oof, buddy. And a ship on Harlots! You do like to live dangerously. Actually, Liv Tyler returning at all was so unexpected, I don’t know if you’re cursed so much as maaaaybe not picking the most solid of ships, heh.

It was pretty weird how FtP just dropped any mention of Anya as if she never existed, but they do seem to do that with personal relationships, dropping them and picking them up as suits the plot. They did that for pretty much everyone except Jill and Roger. Even Kate/Leonard only got some charged exchanges at the start and then that was it, so if you don’t like it in the one, then I guess you have cause to be grateful about it in the other? Heh.

Re: Cruz, that one, I’ll give you, there was no reason to think her role would be shortened. If anything, the opposite. Like you, I would say, I’m a bit of a romantic and get attached to couples. But Vida is not really that kind of show. I did hear about how Cruz was written this season and that was disappointing but overall, it’s meant to be more a full on drama about these very underserved issues and not something to pin shipping hopes on. Which, we ourselves get so little so it still feels unfair, like, how few shows at all stick with the same f/f couple over multiple seasons, but we can’t hold one show responsible for the whole industry’s failure. It’s still got a lot of good things going for it, so while you certainly don’t have to watch it, I wouldn’t write it off for everyone.