#contagonist

Good read! They turned Three into Leading Man this season (see the S3 poster), so his Love Interest stuff got shoved in everywhere!

Oh, thank Grissom, it wasn’t entirely a construct of my imagination (and the unfortunate S3 poster). Sarah and Three did get a mention in every episode, while Five’s sister, Six’s family, Ryo’s everything, Two’s whatever her arc was about and the Android’s quest for heartbreak were given one episode. I think the worst blow for me was “Born, Not Built” where the backstory brought forward was so game-changing that Three/Sarah shouldn’t have come anywhere near it. It’s all the more frustrating that I was so glad they “unfridged” Sarah, but then she was stuck in a computer. I didn’t like it in DW when it affected my favourite character, I won’t like it better in DM. 

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i'm 'glad' i'm not the only one who noticed this season has been focusing on Three even when the episode/plot was about someone else. i tend to be hyper aware of these things because it is an especially annoying trend, so i wasn't sure if it was just me focusing on it too much. it's a shame because there is so much interesting emotional work to do with the android and Two this season

I am hyper aware of this thing as well because it happened with every single sci-fi show I watched and whose lead was a woman. Every. Single. One. I don’t know how to escape it. It always happens. I guess the way to avoid it is to stick to male-led shows? @contagonist​ said it all here in their last paragraph: Rebecca/Shaw should have been given the development Sarah/Three got over S3. Not because Sarah and Three’s story isn’t an interesting one to tell, but because Two is the lead of the show and, apart from meeting her oppressors over and over again, we never got to see her connections to the outside world. 

Ryo, Kal, Marcus, Emily, all had a family before joining the Raza, even if they lost it. Two was alone. She wasn’t even born. She was a project. The only person who had mattered to her was a scientific who fed her and taught her. To discover Two had a life with someone, and friends too, in a safe haven, working for a good cause, even if it didn’t last long (and Shaw/Rebecca is a tad twisted, but that’s another discussion) was huge for the show. For her. She was trusted, she was loved, she was safe.

And the Android finally learning why she was special: she was born out of love, with the purpose of containing a human consciousness, and then born out of love a second time, when Portia awakened her with Emily’s help. We’re talking about a character who had three seasons of “I am flawed”, “someone made me imperfect” and other “I don’t understand what’s happening to me”. Again, this is huge, in terms of character development.

And the show constantly putting them back to back (I giffed a whole series of parallels with the hope it will lead to something), the Android and Two constantly risking their life for each other, whatever the universe, the mirroring shots, the mirroring scenes, etc.