Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26385535-20160127061149/@comment-26159109-20160203052102

Bot of Solitude wrote:

Farerb wrote: No. It's because it was very clear in season 2 that Mulan had feelings for Phillip. Don't blame the audience about an ambiguos scene that was deliberately written that way and the pronoun game Mulan was playing in 509. I was rewatching the episode recently and tried to find this "pronoun game". I couldn't. XD Mulan says something like, "I went to tell them, and it was too late".

I don't see the issue here? This is the phrase I would use (and have) in that situation. The sentence would have been fine if we actually had known something about Mulan and her insecurities with her sexuality. Is she affraid other people might find out? Is she not comfortable enough? We don't know any of that. We could have had a confirmation about her feelings for Aurora without involving other characters like a scene with Mulan alone holding a drawing of Aurora. If we had had the pronoun game in the context of Mulan feering what others might think, it would have been presented differently, but all we got was the pronoun game, not for the sake of developing Mulan's character, but to appease gay audience while not to anger the conservative audience.