starshipfox: (DS9 Kira)
sapphic and sleepy ([personal profile] starshipfox) wrote in [personal profile] juushika 2019-08-09 08:26 pm (UTC)

Grief is a really hard thing to depict on TV -- it's slow, messy, endless, has no satisfactory conclusion. I think SF/F shows and American TV shows are both particularly guilty of trying to make grief solvable in one 40-minute episode, and of depicting one particular emotional response as "correct." It's certainly bad storytelling, but it's also misleading and invalidating.

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