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Who is Stephen Lyons

Have you seen Years and Years? Do you plan to? I don’t want to spoil, if you have. He’s one of the main characters–a protagonist, if you will, which is kind of the problem–but basically he’s a terrible person, for no real reason, and doesn’t really regret his awfulness, not the many ways in which he is.

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Oh, absolutely, that storyline is absurd in any case, but I like the way Edie is like “why should I kiss other women?” (cause honestly why should she), and doing it just for Amanda instead of it being presented as a rite of passage. But you’re right it’s a stupid plot

Exactly! That’s what I really did not like in TBT’s treatment of it, that it was just like, a regular and expected thing. What did that say about people recently realizing they weren’t straight? That they couldn’t be expected to be faithful, they’d just NEED to sow their oats? Get it out of their system? It wasn’t any kind of actual exploration of open relationships of polyamory, instead it was about a newly bi person apparently needing to explore while the other person just…waited. 

Much prefer the way Edie handled it like, oh, that’s what you expect of me? And then being like, actually, that was dumb, why would I go through all that to be with you to then play around with other people? (Though of course, not sure why she’s so upset that Amanda’s still influenced by her ex, considering what she went through with Tim.)

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Almost family is a mess of a show, but I feel they did the “this is your first same sex relationship you should experiment” storyline much better than the bold type. What do you think?

Yeah, I think I agree with that. 

Full disclosure: I hated it in both shows! It’s such an odd plot to write in for characters having had a recent sexual awakening. I get that for straight people, the comparison would be, you don’t marry your first girlfriend (even though some people do) but when you like someone, the advice isn’t, well, I guess you better start dating a bunch of people just to make sure? If it’s about them not having had the same chance to explore that kind of relationship, this awakening didn’t happen in the abstract, they literally found a person they liked enough to reexamine their sexual identity! In this fictional, romanticized TV world where endgame romances are possible (despite the obstacles, how many of the other women in these shows are floating around the same male love interests we met in the first season/eps?), how does it make sense for these characters to want to do that at this point? 

So, having not liked it at all, obviously I’ll prefer a show doing what looks to be hopefully just a two-ep arc and not a full season (or two), and as a shipper, of course it’s nicer when the love interest is the one to say, go ahead and then it doesn’t work, instead of the person first kissing someone else and then it becoming a thing.

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Don’t know if u still take questions about Killjoys, but I started this amazing show a week ago and I’m halfaway through 4 season. Do u think that Aneela knew about Delle Seyah crush about Dutch and was jealous of it?

I never stop taking questions! I just get slower about answering them the longer they sit there. But always happy to talk about Killjoys. I’m glad you’re liking it! A week and already into season 4, damn. 

Hmm, Aneela and Delle Seyah/Dutch…I don’t think she was particularly aware of it, no. For the time she knew her, Delle Seyah was not a big fan of any of the trio, Johnny stabbed her, but she would have been happy to get all of them in her revenge against him, which very well knew. Like, yes, Aneela is jealous of Dutch when it comes to Khlyen and eventually cared enough for Delle Seyah to have insecurities about her too, but I don’t think that ever intersected enough to be an issue for her.