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John Waters personally told me not to put up with assholes and to arrange my life so I didn’t need to deal with them and I follow that principle religiously.

Having something in common is also pretty important, but I can at least be friendly without needing that.

Anyway, having the Voice of Reason siding with the Palestinians on every issue was /not/ something I expected out of this show.

Pushing back and trying to get them to genocide harder. There were problems with it, but for something made 20 years ago by and for old fashioned Democrats it did an okay job (I’ve only seen the first two episodes on the topic so I assume that’s it, apologies if it shifts later).

I’m gonna be real here, I didn’t like some of the additions with Claudia. I felt like the whole Bruce thing was pointless and terrible.

The main change I was concerned about was Claudia’s age. OG Claudia had a lot of unintentional trans femme coding and changing her age might affect some of that. But I trust the people telling this story now; so far we’ve been in good hands and no matter what they do with her it will be good.

The show itself wasn’t particularly deep and the writing was REALLY bad when it came to things like science, tech, history, magic, you know, anything of substance. But it was a pleasant and very queer diversion.

But I don’t think I’ve seen as much trans joy on the screen in a while. Nia Nal is allowed to be herself and being trans is part of her but not all of her and she gets to be happy, something denied to trans characters all the time. It was nice to see.

The show was pretty spectacle and a lot of feel good. It reflected a lot of the dialogue about civil rights that were going on at the time and had some Very Special Episodes about transphobia, anti-Blackness, and other related subjects.