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xchronicles · 5 months ago

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After watching the Screen Rant interview, I want Season 3 of Prodigy without Admiral Janeway or Chakotay appearing at all. Holo Janeway is more than enough. Kate is clearly against J/C for whatever reason, and she even went after Brett for wanting Gwyn/Dal. I'd rather enjoy Season 3 with the Protostar kids only and not get frustrated with the J/C stuff. Please, I'm begging. Brett, my beloved.

Media and art are escapism. We live in super messed up times, and I just want two imaginary, make-believe characters to kiss so my mind can escape into something positive and feel the love that the world is so clearly missing. People find comfort in art and can feel a bit of love through imaginary characters in this messed up world. The rest of Prodigy is about hope; J/C is about (romantic) love, and it's a positive path to take, especially in times where men are being taught to hate women by idiots like Tate. And here you have a character, a man (Chakotay), who gives zero fucks about power dynamics and gender roles. We want them together as a middle finger to the gender roles imposed by social norms. Janeway hates to cook and do house chores, Chakotay does not. Janeway likes to be in command, Chakotay is fine being her support. They are breaking the tiresome stereotypes, and dunking on the shippers for wanting them to be together is just playing into the 'a strong woman can only be strong if she is forever alone' trope. It's an outdated mindset.

That is why Kate. For every girl and woman who was told repeatedly she'll be alone and that no man would want her because she didn't fit the gender role. Because she wanted to be in power and be loved at the same time. For daring to want both. Women can have both. Women are allowed to have both. Being in a romantic relationship is not weak, and it's freaking weird to be saying that having two characters be in a romantic relationship who clearly love each other beyond words would do them a disservice. What does that teach the kids? That you have to choose? That having a powerful bond and a romantic relationship is mutually exclusive? It's weird, and I'm tired of pretending that it's not.

#star trek prodigy #janeway x chakotay #j/c #the pinging and tension was already done in the X-Files with Mulder and Scully #It isn't novel or empowering #It's a worn out trope used as a plot device to try and keep the audience engaged #if you don't know how to write characters in a relationship and make it interesting then you need to rethink how you approach writing #also acknowledging that the shippers saved S2 and then laugh at them for wanting the relationship to be canon is a dick move #sorry Kate but I have my empowering female character who I don't need to be in a romantic relationship and it most definitely isn't Janeway #cause Janeway was never written as an asexual loner by her default state #and trying to make her as such now is forcing something onto a character that feels unnatural and done purely as a request by the actor #rather than the natural progression of the character #Boxes are nice but they were never meant to contain a human heart Kate

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