@detectivesassembled replied to your post “SECOND STRIKE TUMBLR”
Yes, but... they're together forever/as long as they want to in this sweet ass program world thing? =o I watched the first season of Black Mirror and all of that was rather boring and way more depressing. Like sure it's bittersweet, what with the backgrounds/past lives and them being dead, but cmooon all in all it was rather...happy? yes! :D
I mean...... I get what you’re saying about it being happy within the context of the show itself (they can have eternity together! they’ll never grow old! etc etc) and when compared to the other episodes of Black Mirror (which I have zero interest in watching if this is their “happy” episode) but in a broader context it still falls solidly in the Bury Your Gays trope and I’m pretty disappointed that everyone has..... conveniently overlooked that.
Like, you can like the episode that’s fine, you can look at it and see happy sapphic women in love (which is certainly what I was expecting from my dash) but after actually watching the episode I can’t look at it that way. Yorkie’s story in particular really fucking disturbed me and the fact that the entire episode is built around the idea that lesbians can’t be happy in real life, they can only find love and acceptance in their imaginations (which is basically what San Junipero is.... collective, next-level imagining) and in death is not new thinking: it’s the same violent homophobia that’s been in the media ever since they decided to include “the Gays” in their stories. Like, sorry, but as a lesbian I’m tired of the shows I watch telling me I deserve to be dead, and San Junipero had the extra nastiness of telling me I’d be better off.
(Sorry, I don’t mean to come across as aggressive towards you, I’m just really mad at the show lmao)