#and it was definitely the characters
the really annoying thing about the terrible lesbians in Fear Street is that if they’d been framed a bit differently, I would’ve been really into them? if the movie had said “here’s Deena, she sucks, and here’s her girlfriend Sam, who is apparently into that,” I would have been like yes! absolutely! love this! But instead it was like “here is our heroine Deena and her girlfriend Sam and their true love will save the day” and I, the audience, who has spent this entire movie watching Deena be horrible and Sam have the personality of a plant, am like “what? why? no!”
also if they’d cast people who could actually, yanno, act as Sam and Deena (especially Deena) that would have been a plus.
Totally agree. I much preferred part 2 to 1 because I didn’t find any of the characters in part 1 even remotely sympathetic or likeable. The relationship between the sisters in pt 2 had a very similar concept to Deena and Sam but executed way better. I really couldn’t get behind their relationship when Deena was just awful and Sam had zero personality, and I couldn’t figure out why they liked each other. It’s almost like the writers went, welp, we have poc and lesbians, we’ve ticked the diversity box and don’t actually need to give them three-dimensional characterisations.
