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"I generally liked this, altough I must say I am I'm extremely disappointed with the gay storyline. The buffy-ish storytelling didn't mesh well with making Charlie an alien, so where all the other main characters can have some kind of internal conflict that follows the more fantastic elements of the plot, he gets repetitive \"I don't know pop culture\" jokes and last-of-his-kind brooding. Having a character be gay be something incidental can have it's merits, but I just don't think it was quite right here. On the other hand, Matteusz is so far barely a character, and his fight with his parents was ignored in favor of having the couple kiss without even having a conversation on screen. I guess that was supposed to be akin to the Bechdel test line, to show they wouldn't hesitate to do the gay kiss, but I doubt anyone tought they would, so that just feels like ticking a box. And of course the second episode skips the whole subject to focus on the straight character.\nOn the whole, I guess I don't find it as bad as I might insinuate here, but remembering how self-congratulatory Patrick Ness was when he revealed there was a gay lead right after Orlando just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth."
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