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Might I also suggest that another possibility is that until very recently, there has been so little gay representation on TV that merely depicting it at all, as Discovery has done, can feel jarring to some.
A friend of mine was complaining about the same thing back on Season 1, but I asked him if it had been a hetero couple shown brushing their teeth together or having a smooch would he have minded and he admitted probably not. We chalked it up to just not being used to seeing that with a gay couple on tv.
Just a thought.
I mean, I guess it's possible. When it comes to my gender and sexuality, I'd say, "it's complicated" because I'm not cishet, it's just... complicated. Additionally I don't tend to enjoy romance in media all that much to begin with, so it's possible that I'm being more critical than I should. It's just that gay relationships in media don't bother me, it's more when it feels "in my face" that I start to question the motivations behind it.
I guess the big thing is that if you're happy with it, then cool! Something about it just felt off to me.
Frankly, the scene that introduced Stamets and Culber together I think was intended to surprise the audience in a different way –– Stamets is a huge jerk the previous few episodes and set up as a semi-antagonist, and that bit shows him in a very different light, as the audience/Burnham starts to thaw on the Discovery crew.
Meh, buffy casualised Willow & Tara existing as Queer a lot better than disc did....and that was a stride
I'm so confused reading this thread, what was less "casual" about the queer v straight characters in Discovery?