Hey there, it’s me. This is just me sharing my opinion on the new special since it panders towards me in a sense.
I agree with every point the special is making; not every movie needs to be this big preach.
Like, as a gay person, I’m tired of Disney, HBO, Netflix, all these big companies that make a blank state out of great material.
Of course there is great gay shows - (The Owl House, Atypical mm.) but those have something else to keep you watching where the gay is front and centre.
Let me use The Owl House as an example. A teenage girl is thrown into a world of demons and must traverse her way back to the human realm.
Cool plot point, right? However by Season 1 episode 16 “Enchanting Grom Fright” it’s made clear that there is going to be a lesbian relationship between the human girl and a demon girl name Amity.
However, they address this in Season 2, Episode 8 “Knock knock knockin on hooty’s door” where Amity and the human girl -Luz get together.
And that’s the last time that it was brought up and the show continued like normal, just with them being in a relationship
I’m getting sidetracked, my point is - there can be homosexuality and social issues in a show with out it “pandering”.
And it also feels like by Disney that they’re trying to “make up” for past homophobia so now they’re really just pushing gayness on to everything they can and use it as a sort of shield, if that makes sense.
Anyway, this is just one gay person’s opinion, feel free to comment your own - straight or not. If you read all this - thank you.
No, Helena was not a lesbian. Matter of fact, I think it’s either mentioned or implied that she had a past relationship with one of the male characters in the movie? I only saw it once so can’t remember specifics.
I didn’t quite understand a lot of the Indiana Jones stuff because it felt like they hadn’t actually seen the movie. She’s not a replacement for Indy, she’s one of the sidekick characters, and I never got the sense that she was going to be taking up the mantle. I made a post about it here but was downvoted quite a bit, with people telling me that it was “heavily implied” that she was intended to replace Indy through marketing and behind the scenes comments, but I guess I missed all that. 🤷🏼♂️
You are right. She had a male ex-fiance, was shown to be into the guy on the boat and a group of guys in Sicily.
You didn’t miss anything - you were 100% right. The marketing focused on Indy - the first trailer, Helena was hardly in it. She had one shot, I think.
But we don’t let pesky facts get in the way of our outrage, these days.