![]() ![]() Supergirl gave us an entire episode with a de-powered Kara in Season 1, as well as several scenes with Kara and her friends recovering from the injuries one would expect on a superhero show. Show us characters realistically dealing with injuries and wounds. Show us a character struggling through PTSD. As important as the conflict is, it’s also important to see how characters deal with the aftermath, both physically and emotionally. On high stakes television, we’re used to seeing our heroes fight and attack and go to battle, but we rarely get to see them deal with what happened in such instances. To borrow from the great Ron Swanson, give me all the male and female best friends you have, I know what I’m about, son. Person of Interest could have easily thrown Reese and Shaw together, but instead they kept the “Mayhem Twins” perfectly platonic, and that relationship was one of the strongest on the show. ![]() So why is it so hard to find on television? It’s important to show close relationships between men and women that never lead to sex. Men and women can be friends, it happens every day. Related Vote for Your Favorites: The 2022 Tell-Tale TV Awards (Round 2) Give us shows where the male and female leads love and trust each other without the endgame being the two of them in bed together. In the same vein, not every relationship needs to be romantic, either. ![]() Few shows have given us an OT3 to compete with Leverage‘s Eliot, Parker, and Hardison, but The 100‘s Bravenlarke has the potential to get there. People love each other in an innumerable variety of ways we should get to see more than one or two of those represented on television. We want to see relationships between LGBT+ people, we want to see polyamorous people, we want to see couples who’ve been married for 20 years and are still crazy about each other. What better way to reinforce that idea than to incorporate it into our favorite shows? Show us a spectrum of healthy, functional relationships! It’s 2016, and thankfully society is coming around to the idea that people should be allowed to love whoever they want. With the new season of Fall TV approaching, I’ve put together the five TV tropes I’d like to see more of this year, and the five that I never want to see again! Tropes we want more of 1. Some tropes are written willfully, some happen as a matter of circumstance, some make us squeal with excitement, and others can completely ruin our enjoyment of a television show. Vitriolic Best Buds: Elida and Isaac can't really stand each other, but they were partners on and off for years.All media we consume is filled with tropes, especially television.Snipe Hunt: Lazaro's mission to find Elida is one of these the Admiralty hopes it will keep him too busy, and that his continual failure to capture her will give them excuses to keep him out of power.This ended up backfiring the Admiralty rightfully sees him as a bloodthirsty, power-hungry lunatic and has been coming up with excuses to keep him away from any real power. Self-Made Orphan: Lazaro executed his own father in hopes of proving his loyalty to the Republic and getting promoted.People's Republic of Tyranny: The fledgling Republic of Arriopa is pretty much what you'd expect from a Republic built in the ashes of a theocratic monarchy, which is to say that it's a military dictatorship sprinkled by resentful lesser nobles like Lazaro violently jockeying for positions in the eventual government.MacGuffin: The Bezoar of Kings was the thing that allowed Elida's family to rule Arriopa for so many centuries.General Ripper: Lazaro was one of the nastier and more vicious members of the rebellion, and now that he's a Commander in the Admiralty, he's become obsessed with killing Elida in order to ensure that her family never retakes the throne.On the other hand, she and Isaac are banished from Arriopa, and it's still unclear what will become of the Republic. Bittersweet Ending: Elida manages to stop Lazaro, save Arriopa, and earn mercy for herself and Isaac.The miniseries spawned a sequel, A Planet Called Doom, and a TV adaptation that aired on Syfy. Meanwhile, Lazaro, a frustrated General in the army that deposed Elida, sees a chance to rise through the ranks by bringing her in. Together, they set out in search of the monastery on Wix. Her life is upended, however, when her greedy frenemy Isaac reappears, claiming to know the location of her long-lost mother. She just wishes she had more money for booze. Fifteen years later, she has made a new life for herself as Elida, a lowly scavenger, and she's actually quite happy. ![]() When she was only ten years old, Queen Eldaya Al-Feyr of Arriopa was deposed in a coup and forced to go on the run. Vagrant Queen is a science-fiction comic-book miniseries written by Magdalene Visaggio with art by Jason Smith. ![]()
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