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Oh my goodness, I can't believe I finished Madre solo hay dos. New personal record, but now I gotta wait for everyone to talk about it.

I laughed, I cried, I felt seen,... I can't believe it finally happened. I cannot believe this show exists. 🥹 It's like watching something that played out in your mind, and not quite believing it's really on your screen. 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 🏳️‍🌈

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...but is it just me or did it all feel like a bit of anti-climax in the end? I can't tell if my expectations were too high and it's not like I'm not happy... but it felt like in the second half, the focus shifted to all the other relationships, the development of their relationship didn't make as much sense - Mariana needed to be more active, I think. And then the final confirmation of love was very tame. I like the intimacy of hugs and the message that they're partners, but after so much angst, I was expecting something more passionate. And then... it was as if they almost wanted to distract us from them by focusing more on the straight couple.

Maybe I'm just overly sensitive or maybe I was expecting too much, but after an amazing first half, it almost felt like they were trying to make us forget a little that they went there.

And lastly, lesbian is not a dirty word and it doesn't make your character unrelatable. Ana as a repressed lesbian would've made more sense to me than what we got...

give me starship captains like the sailors of old, weathered and wary of the vast beast that is deep space, who religiously keep their own personal traditions and rituals to appease her and guide their ships safely through her vast depths.

give me wide-eyed ensigns eagerly drinking in tales of great creatures of the void, space whales and other more malevolent leviathans, dismissed as tall tales by more cynical cadets who only trust the sense of their own eyes.

give me whispered accounts of ghost vessels, lost long ago in great battles across the universe, populated by a literal skeleton crew.

give me a space bermuda triangle.