#PETER DAVID LITERALLY WHAT WAS GOING ONNNNN

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Not to be obsessed with a poorly written character but the sheer unwillingness on sm2099's part to interogate the sum of Dana’s parts, or even explore how she moves between wildly opposing stances, vs how other women are written in the series just makes me insane. like i WISH i could chalk this up to simple misogyny! but other women in the series are afforded coherent and interesting flaws, even minor characters!

Father Jennifer ministers to the Downtown residents but also speaks of them with a level of condescension. Conchata clearly cares for her sons and tried to protect them from a violent father and yet refuses to interogate her own physical violence or how her actions could emotionally hurt her kids. Xina lashes out at Gabriel for the cheating when he's as much a victim of that decision as her, because it's better than acknowledging how much it hurts. Lyla's sentience is actualised from two notable moments (realising she loves Miguel and overwhelming pain when she plugs into the wider news cycle and is subsumbed by how much suffering is reported) and the mini arc of her going on a rampage is sourced from those two emotions.

And then you've got Dana who has so many compelling actions and absolutely no interest from the narrative in painting a coheisive picture with them.

#like. if you just examine dana's actions as are it paints the picture of someone quite callous and even - re hanging out w Stone #specifically - honestly kind of cruel. but that doesnt match the tone of her relationship with miguel at all. the writing isnt portraying #their relationship as something which persists despite two deeply flawed parties affected by a shared history. its just kind of...there for #when sm2099 needs some relationship drama with characters its more interested in #PETER DAVID LITERALLY WHAT WAS GOING ONNNNN #tunes talks 2099 #tunes talks critical