Is it just me, or did they focus WAY too much on the transsexual character in Season 1? I feel like we got way more of her story than any others and at times I felt exhausted by AGAIN hearing how hard her life is.
In one scene she's in the Hospital and we meet her Mother. Her Mother doesn't accept that she's trans, thinks it's a phase, calls her by her boy name and doesn't let her gay lesbian girlfriend see her. It's a bit on the nose but it's a strong scene. Mothers are very important emotionally for many people, seeing a mother not supporting her child is quite striking.
But then it just goes on and on..
>Her Lesbian girlfriend introduces her to her other lesbian friends at pride parade
>The Lesbians don't accept her, and basically hate on her for just being another MAN trying to get into a WYMENS place.
oh.. ok?
>The scene as a kid, where the other kids hate her for being different (this far I get) but then hold her under a shower with boiling radiator water almost killing her for being gayish.
the fuck? Kids beating up kids they don't like sure.. But I'm pretty sure most kids don't go for the "Boiling alive" method.
Anyway It's like "yeeeaahhh... we get it, being trans is difficult". I feel like by going on and on about it they kinda ruined the point.
meanwhile, "Van Damme" lives in fucking africa, struggling to get by and barely able to afford shitty AIDS Medicine for his dying mother, and somehow it isn't shown nearly as dramatic as the trans scenes.
I did however love the series towards the end, when it became a bit more action heavy.
