b99 thing – Page 3 – Pass Through Fire

fourdrinksantiago:

cipollakate:

I think one of the reasons the Rosa Diaz news is, for me, so exciting is because we now have a “safe” bisexual character on mainstream television.

Brooklyn Nine Nine is a half hour sitcom. That’s not to say that bad things don’t happen to the characters, because they do, and it’s not to say there isn’t a certain amount of dangerous elements, I mean, it’s about cops, for Christ’s sake. But major characters don’t die. And death is a standard trap for LGBT characters. There is a reason we all know what someone means when they say kill your gays.

Rosa’s not going to fall victim to that. Unless the show is taken in a vastly different direction from where it is right now, Rosa is not going to be killed senselessly.

Whenever I tune into Brooklyn Nine Nine, I’m not going to have to worry that she’s about to bite it for no good reason. I don’t have to keep it in the back of my mind that she might not make it through this episode by virtue of her sexuality.

tl;dr, Rosa Diaz is an honest to god safe bisexual character in a form of media, I’ve been crying a little since I found out, and that’s one of the reasons.

steph actually adressed this in an interview!

“I was really excited about it. I hadn’t really seen much of that representation in television that I personally watch. I know it’s out there, but often times it’s written in a specific way. “Let’s introduce a gay character and quickly kill them off,” so you have the ride of the complexity of this amazing character, but also [you do] not necessarily deal with them over the course of our entire show. Obviously, that’s probably not going to happen in this case [laughs], because Rosa is a core member of this ensemble. It’s not like she’s going to come out and then get hit by a car and get killed off. It’s really cool to me that our show is exploring something with almost the safety net underneath it, telling the audience, “Look, we’re not doing this so that we can explore a story and simply throw it away when it’s convenient for us. We are going to keep this person around because we love this person already.” It’s part of the family.”