Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26225812-20150625072936/@comment-26159109-20151106063710

CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote: A few things I'd like to add:

1. The way it was done in season 3 was horrible. They left the scene ambiguous on purpose and then claimed "Mulan is a lesbian" in an interview. A character's sexuality should not be revealed in an interview, it should be on show.

2. We saw on the show that Mulan has feelings for phillip, so claiming she's fully lesbian is really offensive to bisexuals.

3. They left it "open" and we have'nt heard anything about that character for 2 seasons, they didn't even mention her. I know the actress wasn't available, but they should not have started a storyline they couldn't gaurantee to continue and one episode two seasons later is too little too late.

4. It seems that Ruby will be Mulan's love interest and it really bothers me since it was established that Ruby is a heterosexual woman who had a serious relationship with men. Changing her sexualoty just because they need someone to be with Mulan so why not Ruby. Now, I don't have a problem with characters going from being straight into being gay, but it should be something organic and developed on screen (i.e. Willow from Buffy, Callie from GA). It should not be done in one episode.

5. The fact that there are no reports of them filming after 509 means that is really going to be a token and not really serious. Wow, great representation of what happens in real world. They are going to be suddenly gay without any development on screen and then travel to forgotten charaters island to never hear from them ever again. So many assumptions, many of which are wrong. Point 1 is fair enough. For Point 2, You can care for someone and not want to sleep with them, and that is how a inturpet Mulan and Phillip. For Point 3, they didn't know Jamie would be so busy for the next year and a half. And they start a lot of storylines that continue later. It's just how this show works. For Point 4, I agree with the thoughts if Red is shipped with Mulan, but all of the thoughts hold no water until we confirm that Red is being shiped with Mulan, which I am still not convinced of. For Point 5, we don't know that they haven't filmed for other episodes, and Adam and Eddy already have said things that imply they will be back, especially Mulan. I am not wrong. I am talking about what was on screen, not what was said on interviews. The way Mulan was talking about Phillip in season 2 is like she has feelings for him. More than friendship. The scene at the end of 303 was ambiguous and a lot of people I talked to after the episode thought she was going to confess about her feelings for Phillip.

Many stories they'll continue later - didn't they say that about Will ana Ana or Lily's father. There's something called momentum and once they lose it, the sory becomes more irrelevant (Graham's murder confession, Taking Belle's heart, a lot of things Regina does that they rather ignore then deal with). Seriously, at this point they'll need a full season to finish all their stories they started and promised to do later. And like I said, one episode two seasons later is too little, too late. Even if they'll return for one more episode in 5 B. Clearly, Mulan and Ruby are not the main event of the season, even though they like to announce it as such, goes with "look at what we do!! We're not homophobes!!!".

We haven't seen or heard about a fourth female character that is going to appear in 509 and since it has been confirmed it's not Merida, it's a safe bet to say that Ruby and Mulan are going to pair up together.