It was GLAAD and after Culber died thex issued this statement:
It seems like DSC season 1 was so chaotic behind the scenes, its hard to see if any major plan was left. Fuller's certainly wasn't. I'll wait for a tell-all book or the effects of free drinks on a con panel one day. In Vino Sirtis Veritas. has to work on others, too.
If anything, it's even stupider - especially as they seemed completely shocked by the very foreseeable criticism the decision elicited. If you're not going to even follow through on the death, or write any indication of it having any impact on Stamets, then why bother doing it? If it was genuinely planned that far in advance, introduce another Landry, a disposable character presented as a major player, for Tyler to murder. Heck, kill off one of the silent bridge crew. The scene wasn't a precursor to a deep character piece or anything like that, it was purely for the WTFOMGBBQ!!!1?!!! moment. So why make half of the first gay couple on Star Trek the victim not a dozen episodes in from their introduction? That's a weird writing decision and shares top spot with the lead being an actual evil twin for "Discovery's worst idea".
Nailed it! I want to see them explore their lives as a couple. I was looking forward to it. We have a person of color playing a prominent role as a doctor, and he's also gay! There's some terrific representation right there, but then he's murdered, but don't worry, the white guy lived, and the doctor is still a time traveling ghost who can interact with him from time to time. Riker and Troi can boink on and off for years, Tom and B'elanna can get married and prosper, but a same sex couple gets together and so now we have to murder one of them. Great move.
You're not a writer on the show. You have absolutely no idea what their plan is. For all you know, Stamets's story arc in Season 2 is to bring Culber back via the Seven Dimensions (or whatever they call the red lights), but in order for that arc to happen and push the story, Culber would need to be... You know... Dead.
You know how they could have gotten around that? Not kill him in the first place.
You are a reason why most writers' rooms avoid LGBT+ stories.
If you put plot armor on a gay couple, its going to be obvious and it will limit them.
Taking televised Star Trek's very first on screen interracial same sex couple and killing off one of the characters inside of the first season, for shock value, is hack writing. It was just a stupid move. I don't care if he comes back ten times over, the damage is done. Waving their hands and saying "he's a magic time traveling ghost!" doesn't ameliorate that stupidity, not for me.
It wasn't just shock value, it was a significant story point that's rolling over into the second season. You tried though. I have to hand it to the trolls, they're getting more creative, weaponising representation.
I told you to cool it with the angry rhetoric. Infraction for trolling. Comments to PM.
