drkrash wrote:Also according to the showrunners, Sarah is not "representative" of anything. At this point, Sarah and Nyssa is a one-time thing, and they specifically said that they are *not* labeling her as "bisexual."
That they say she isn't doesn't really matter, in my opinion. It has been shown that she gets feelings of love (or at least sexual attraction) from men and women. Even simplifying things (since sexuality is a seriously complex subject) it pretty strongly hints that she is bisexual or something even less common.
Maybe she feels romantic feelings for women and sexual attraction to men and women. Perhaps she is attracted to persons and not genders...there are a lot possibilities.
The fact that they are not labeling it anything, nor making much of a ruckus about it in-universe is actually a positive thing in my view.
I don't care what they say about her not being representative, because she
is and, so far, in the way it
should be done in my opinion. She is a character who happens to be [whatever her sexuality is, though clearly not completely cisgendered], but is not defined by it. Actively trying to make her some sort of gay-rights icon or anything like that would seem forced in my opinion, risking turning the character into a shallow caricature.
I think that might be what they mean when they say she is not representative of anything - that she is not on the show to be purely a shallow vehicle for sexuality activism or something like that.
If she never shows interest in another woman for the rest of the show, that is fine. But, and anyone who identifies as so can feel free correct me if I'm wrong, the fact she loves another woman is not
meaningless. Having a character that is, in some way, relatable for people of certain sexual orientations or gender identities when such characters are tremendously scarce in media is a positive step.
Or at least those are the impressions I get. I'm a straight white dude, so I've never lacked representation, but another gaming forum I frequent happens to have a lot of people with various sexual orientations and gender identities and, when the subject turns to various forms of media, character like Sara - complete characters with their sexuality/gender as only one facet of the whole - tend to receive much more positive comments than characters whose whole identity is built around their non-normative orientation / gender identity.
Anyway, sorry for the rant and any typos I let escape- I'm really tired right now and that usually causes my ability for writing my thoughts succinctly and correctly to suffer
