having a breakdown

this + jamie saying a lot of the cast was rooting for byler endgame

she looks so sad and so scared. she didn't feel empowered or heroic, she was terrified

she never even got to live

i never knew i could be so upset about a show, but the message her death sends is fucking sick when her character was hurt, manipulated, and abused for her entire life. for one of the biggest shows in the world it's absolutely vile to conclude her arc like that

in s1 you hand us a character who has been abused her whole life, and by s5, you haven't given her any development and instead you have kept her trauma as the most central component of her being. there's no fucking excuse!!!!!!!! they made jane endure all that suffering not to grow from it, but instead to be what pushed her to kill herself

you've got to be shitting me

sorry but i'm done with this franchise, s5 was an embarrassment to the entertainment industry and was a fucking failure to the cast and crew who devoted the past decade of their lives to this show, AND to the audience who even made it such a big hit. i've been here since 2016, i grew up with these actors and characters so they mean a lot to me but absolutely nothing could make me want to watch it again

i saw so much of myself in el and how we grew up, and you're telling me her story ends by killing herself? what about my story? can we only escape abuse through death... because that's absolutely incorrect

they used her, they used terms like "battery" to dehumanise her and reduce her to nothing but her powers, they continued the narrative of her feeling like a weapon

she was never a weapon, she was a girl

she had the chance to live a normal life and she was bullied

it truly could have reshaped queer media, characters, and stories as we know them

it truly could have redefined how filmakers approach queerness and embedding that in their narratives

it truly could have done wonders for the community, and how others perceive queer individuals