Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26225812-20150625072936/@comment-27138802-20151104125010

CoolDudeAl wrote: Ray Donovan wrote: More than likely the LGBT characters are going to be Mulan/Ruby. So they will spend 5 minutes building the relationship, will be isolated from the main cast, have some weird explanation about where they were all this time, and will disappear.

A&E were more than likely pushed to do this tokenism because of criticism from media about the lack of representation of gay characters. It is season 5 and NOW they want to do it?

Thee were set rumors that an ABC executive was present in Vancouver to look over filming of the episode that will introduce the couple because they don't want A&E to screw it up. ABC is the same channel that just recently had a Golden Globe to go towards an actress playing a black, middle age, bisexual character (How To Get Away With Murder).

OUAT has constantly been accused of being exclusive of POC characters, sexist, and homophobic. Now we got a black Merlin, Portuguese Guinvere, Lancelot is back, and now have an LGBT character. More than two POCs characters regularly in one season??? Say what???? This is unheard of in OUAT, lololol. I just think this is just something to cleanse their hands, pat their backs so they can appear as progressive (rolls eyes). I personally have low expectations. OUAT just doesn't do a good job in the romance department, gay or straight, lol. This is just my opinion. The funny thing in all this is Adam, Eddy, and the rest of the writers on this show are fairly liberal, I think. Jane even helped create a show about a gay couple. The lack of minorities (in race, sexual orientation, etc.) on this show is more due to the subject matter, which is classic stories, specifically focusing on fantasy works. The majority of classic fantasy works known in the USA, feature straight, white characters, and so they leads to a majority of the cast portraying straight, white characters. This whole thing is actually showing us a bigger problem, that Americans don't know about stories that did not come from Europe or the US, where again, the majority is straight, white people. Anyway, I'm still not sure that Mulan and Red are the ship. I think the ship is probably someone with Mulan, but I think we may not actually see the other character until 5B. Time will tell.

Definitely agree that we Americans need to be expose to different folklore of Africa, Asia, etc.

I tokens will be Red and Mulan. OUAT is highly predictable and Little Red Riding Hood is a character they can easily manipulate unlike the Frozen characters but like you said, time will tell.