Dead End: Paranormal Park Season 1 - A Showman's Identity Crisis 

I spent way too much time on the Storyboards lmao Also yes, Season 2 will be reviewed

One thing I REALLY WANTED was a line where the parents say “I wish Grammy gram accepted ME…” The “bare minimum” is not usually what parents do. Parents ARGUE with their kids decisions all the time. The grandma could have had issues with the parents MARRIAGE from the start.

45:00 This hit hard. My own sister did the same to me. She disowned my parents, but she also cut me out as well. That was six years ago. Just the other day I accidentally stumbled across her TikTok account, so I sent a message saying I love her and she blocked me within 5 minutes. I still wonder what I did to make her hate me. 😞

I'm 25 minutes in and I'll say this rn, Infinity Train is a lot more horror-oriented despite being a childrens show. Their episode count is actually the same as Dead End's, but they pace out the story and worldbuilding much better imo

Those storyboards with the Grandma was intense, holyshit dude! GOOD JOB!

You did amazing on the storyboarding. The only thing I would change is to have Barney’s initial coming out to the school be forced out, because I don’t understand why he couldn’t just hide that aspect of him.

Dad: Please come home Barney: I will, once I know that it is That line is glorious This rewrite honestly would honestly make Barney one of my favorite characters from any show.

I respect you so much for working so hard on storyboarding and rewriting the scenes of HGS and Paranormal Park with Barney. I'm a trans man, and the way you wrote barneys dialogue with Norma moved me to tears. It felt relatable, and it hit really close to home. Thanks man, it felt nice to be seen.

I like the complexity of family situation in the storyboards . I’m trans myself and honestly I hate when media makes the family only one note , that they either support it or they don’t . The storyboards showed a more realistic family state , yes with some family members being fully assholes but more members being confused and trying to understand what is happening but might not do it the right way. 10/10

The nightmare storyboards match the scene perfectly to make it clear in terms of the context for Barney and his issue with his grandma. Great work. Well-executed and impactful. Even kids can handle intense shit like that which they can like and relate to........also big plus for Barney's reaction to his dog....priceless 😉

Manga Writer I have to say, my favorite part in all of this was the Re-write. I just love the new ideas you made to fit into one consistent theme and tone and amazing thanks to your drawings and your incredible voice acting and music choice. (I'm not exaggerating, your voice when screaming, crying or speaking in a higher tone as these characters are talking was impressive and made me feel fear, dread, anger, surprise and joy more than when I watched the actual show itself) Also with the much needed context, dialogue and how you showed Barney is not an aggressor, actually was punished for leaving and the parents are more morally grayer in this Re-write, you made me to genuinely start liking and rooting Barney's struggle to be accepted but also understood the perspective from the parents. Incredibly i started hating on the mother instead of Barney during the climax scene and in the ending I felt like I got something more out if it with the conclusion of his arc and how he grew. If that had happened in the show Barney would have been probably my favorite character of the show. Sadly it didn't but, this only shows how you know how to find flaws into the material and make it better with what you have. Very well done Manga you're an amazing reviewer

Fantastic Review! you managed to dive into this show's problems better than i or anyone else could. i love especially your rewrite of Barney. You made a seemingly bland and almost unlikable Character into a more deep, understandable and compelling victim. You made him feel like someone who actually suffered through hell instead of a selfish brat and his parents more believably stubborn, guilty, and redeemable. his story feels alot more meaningful and relatable not just to trans people, but ALL people, and the nightmare scenes especially being TRULY reminiscent of Infinity Train (the show Hamishe Steele was supposedly comparing to). i didnt think someone could fix barney and make me care about him, but you found a way! For that, you've earned a Sub.

I'm watching this because of your new S2 video and I love the way you rewrote the show! 1:30:00 This scene is fucking fantastic 1:49:00 This scene hurts so much, but I would have loved it if it was in the show

Personally, I would've had it so that in the nightmare the parents nod a little and give (somewhat) subtle signs that they agree with what the grandma's saying. This would make it so that (at least in Barney's mind) his parents not only sat idly by, but they sided with his grandma.

Nice job on the reworked Grammy-Gram. She sounded like something out of my personal nightmares instead of "Ah shit, Grandma's possessed again. Call the exorcist"

You deserve to have the reviewer of the year award because you perfect pinpoint every writing flaw in each media like you did with HGS. Not only that, you give us an example of how to NOT write a story. People need to learn about this and it's rare to find people like yourself that criticize media without using their lets just say "unsubtle hate bias". I didn't even watch show, but I know now that I should be careful on what I write because of this video. If I even decide to write. Love this video because I learn more about writing than my college courses LOL.

This was definitely worth the 2 month wait. You did a fantastic job, especially with your storyboards.

so I was kind of on the fence about this video given the LGBT cast. as an LGBT person myself, sometimes I'm wary about watching new RU-vidrs because I don't know how well they'll discuss topics related to our community, or if they'll even do so in a positive light. but I really love how respectfully you talked about Barney, despite not even liking him as a character. what really hooked me is your storyboards and how you rewrote the scenes. rewriting his trauma to be more relatable makes him a more sympathetic and likeable character. you did a really good job and I'm glad I clicked the video :D

I'm guessing that the 13 planes are a reference to Dante's inferno, but they just overcomplicated this shit to hell and back (no pun intended) If they want to simplify it just make 3 planes (Hell, earth, heaven) and the subplanes assigned to the already existing planes.

For the Slice of Life Action Comedy Horror bit if you've ever watched Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated, they managed to balance this really well

I'm not a writer, but I think the reason we never see or hear what Barney's grandma said to him was to "not offend the audience". Like, they probably think a trans viewer would be upset by the grandma, and somehow not understand that it's meant to be a bad thing. Just because a villain says something, certainly does not mean the writer would say or believe that. I'd guess the writers spend a lot of time on twitter, to the point they genuinely think everyone will overreact to everything and anything. I'm not sure about that though, it might just be bad writing Edit: Okay, I watched further into the video, and you said what I said. So I guess we agree on that

I actually agree with most of this review except the comment about parents accepting you. No acceptance shouldn’t be praised at all nor should characters just be eternally grateful for it to a point where they can’t feel frustrated when a family member doesn’t stand up for them. Obviously an adult yelling at a teenager is a lot different than an adult yelling at another adult, so Barney’s cowardice is perfectly reasonable. The parents trying to dismiss the argument is still indefensible. that said it’s silly for Barney to hold such a grudge that he talks to his parents like they disowned them

Storyboard Timestamps Intro 1:23:50 Nightmare 1:27:06 Barney Comes Out 1:30:00 Barney Faces His Fear 1:36:15 Patrick & Barney Talk 1:39:26 Barney Is Confronted By Parents 1:42:25 The Dinner 1:47:01 The Finale 1:53:25

1:27:11 OH MY GOD DUDE THIS IS SO GOOD! If you make a indie animation i promisse to find money and donated it to you, you need a series This WHOLE RE-WRITE IS SO GOOD!! This is so... genuine. My god, i often dont watch cartoons with LGBT themes because they dont often feel genuine. But this felt. This was real, this was so good

I don't wanna be that girl who posts several comments (though it does help the algo) but, "all the scripts are reviewed by GLAAD" explains EVERYTHING. I'm amazed they weren't also reviewed by the ADL since Barney's family is Jewish.

Parents actually are supposed to accept you and that IS the bare minimum. Parents are supposed to actually love you they’re your freaking parents for crying out loud.

"Or try to grow some f-ing balls" Oh man, the joke is right there... In all seriousness, when you see the diner conversation alone, you can easily agree with Barney's speech Maybe is because i am NB, which qualify me as trans, or maybe is because i had issues with my parents since i was a kid, but i do agree with the sentiment that is the bare minimum for a parent to accept you. If they are not causing people harm, it is the bare minimum to accept how your child chooses to live But after watching more of it, and listening to your points, i do agree with you. It sounds like the creator put all his frustrations growing up LGBTQ+, and didnt tried to explore the character with more love. You do sense a lot of coping with Barney, like the creator or writer is using him to deal with his own issues. Not that is a bad thing, but it can cause caricatures of a group, which could be dangerous Thankfully I dont think they messed up that badly to cause harm. HgS insinuated that transitioning and detransitioning is a easy process with no consequences, and to young trans people (heck, even for someone like me that recently came out) is a very dangerous message. Transioning isnt for everyone. It is not something you can reverse without any consequence. As rare as is it, detransitioning is hard man, it can be heart broken to watch. We in the trans umbrella need to be 100% sure if the processing of transitioning will help. It doesnt make is less valid to not go all the away, and just passing is good enough

I watched first three episodes _after_ watching this video, just to make sure I was giving the series a fair shake instead of taking your word for it -though don't worry; I didn't watch on Netflix,- and I agree with basically everything but the visuals, which I don't love (in fact, I really dislike the character designs), but I thought the animation itself was above average (maybe I'm just too used to low budget stuff), and kind of liked the chromatic aberration they seemed to be using for foregrounds/backgrounds. But as for everything else? Hard agree, especially comparing your storyboards to the actual product. Giving examples in the coming out one _really_ helped; I especially liked the 'something on my face' line, because that felt pretty realistic, mentally; you're still 'you' to the people who knew you pre-transition, but 'off.' Norma suffering from her own problems in the same fear scenario as Barney was also a lot more impactful, even if it was more of a nice touch over something that _needed_ to be included. The rest I can't compare to the original source material since I didn't watch it, but the parent one was great too, showing two different 'points' of acceptance. _More drama. More development. More scenarios for viewers to potentially relate to. Making it hit harder when they turn around._ As you and many others have said, I _really_ wish I knew what the grandma said. She has no nuance to her. She just feels like some pure evil caricature, without us even knowing the details of _why_ she's evil and bad. I guess we know _one_ line, due to the "you're just like gramm gramm" (or whatever they call her) thing, which is better than nothing. Still, one dimensional characters are _so_ boring; the grandma is a character device for another character's trauma, not a person. Boo. I'd _hope_ that, as a means to confront this trauma and overcome it, they'd eventually show how the scene played out in reality (no scary lighting/visuals, and _words)._ If they _really_ wanted to make it realistic, I'd hope the grandma's words _weren't_ just flat out slurs or demeaning "You will never be a man"s and were more like the few I could make out in your prompt (and I suppose also the one hinted at in the show, about wishing he was the how he was before). Show the _innocence_ of an ignorant person's statements (in their eyes) and how statements they think are fine can have such negative effects on a trans person. Delicious nuance. I think it actually hits harder if it's less of a "She's 100% bad" thing, because it shows how ignorance and lack of understanding can play a role in trauma, not just "GRRR. I'M A BIGOT. SLUR, SLUR, SLUR." (And I know the biggest thing for Barney was his family not defending him, not the grandma herself, but this comment is long enough already.) Anyway, first video I ever watched from you. Liked and Subscribed; time to watch your _High Guardian Spice_ video.

And there’s the premise I was waiting for. Because there’s very little evidence actually shown his actions are irrational even though they are referenced.

46:00 This is likely due to the writer projecting. They see themselves as a perpetual victim, and have zero self awareness. So they live vicariously through Barney, while utterly failing to recognize that he's an objectively terrible person.

You are my hero!I remember the first time I heard about this show, but I wasn't interested enough to watch it.But I am ready to watch this 2 hour long review!) Thank you for all your work

2 months in the making man. Worth the 4 hours rendering

Personally i really enjoyed this show because it is very, very relatable. I like the artstyle, it's nothing special but it gets the point across, the character designs are cute, and courtney makes my day better. I will respect your opinion on the show, and will continoue to enjoy it in peace. Well done writhing the script btw, that's a lot of pages

Now that's what I called "worth the wait" Thanks for making this movie of a video! Wish I had something to comment in regards to the show... but I have never watched and was never interested on it.

Somewhere around 1:04:00 is where we finally MIGHT disagree. It's entirely possible, yes, that the mom was trying to be respectful of the pronouns. But I think it was more like, she was talking to someone who would not have known Barney as anything but "Barney." It would have been confusing if she went around asking about a female park worker named Bernadette when she knew Barney was trying to hide the truth from co-workers.

I as a man that is NOT trans can relate to your rewrite of Barney as we relate to women, gay, men and women, talking animals, non-speaking animals, etc in fiction as long as you have👏good👏writing. Don't just write a person as simply trans or a woman, or black, or gay or whatever and simply expect claps. How many times must we tell you this for you to learn this lesson, Hollywood? The ear ringing sound needs to not be so harsh and rewrite Dad at the restaurant scene was not saying much as rewrite Mom was arguing. Kinda weird.

I get the feeling, if we actually heard what Grammy-Gram said, anyone who wasn't already on Barney's side would just go "Wait, that's it? Get over yourself, wuss."

Yeah too much tell vs show. If it were me before revealing that Barney is trans (to people who didn't know from the comic) I would've started with the mother being on the phone with the grandmother (yeah refuse grammy-gram too) in the background and using the deadname a bit uncomfortably. "um yeah uh Natasha will be there." Barney flinches so you get the feeling Natasha is someone Barney is uncomfortable being around. Then come into the kitchen, bring up the weakness topic for the interview so the "avoid confrontation" bit can hit harder in hindsight (oh and actually make him more prone to avoiding confrontation with his parents). Talk about the interview and the dinner then Barney leaves. And follow what you've said. I mean look at the background of that scene there's a big family portrait you'd see once you come inside with Barney as Barney. If we're going to say it's just a shaky tolerance just have a small picture somewhere no one would really notice but otherwise no presence of Barney. Doing it that way you can then see in hindsight how his parents acceptance of him is limited, how it's the little things that can build up into a big weight that people who aren't aware will see as nothing until someone points it out. How blind you're to it unless it's some blatant bigotry.

The problem wasn’t that the parents slipped up, the problem was that they refused to acknowledge they were really in the wrong directly and address it and that they were dismissive of how bad what happened to him really was by playing it off as “oh, you know how she is”. He didn’t necessarily think his parents were bad parents as much as people who made him unhappy. He’s saying his parents truly caring about him *was* the bare minimum.

1:36:18 My Personal Favorite Part out of this whole video

The storyboards are amazing! They have the secret ingredient that the original story didn’t have. The emotional beats are there, the characters are understandable. The imagery is great! Barney’s struggles are shown better. As a closeted trans man living with transphobic parents, I relate to his struggles. Heavily. And the part with the everyone has troubles dealing with the relationship between your parents is something I relate to a LOT. Thank you for this video. I’m writing a story with two main characters who are both transgender on the opposite sides of their gender identity spectrum. I hope I can make my story both entertaining, interesting, emotional, and lastly, good.

They really threw away some good opportunities for psychological horror with the grandma scenes. They could’ve still kept things semi vague, but at least had Grandma say the “why can’t you just be like you used to be?” line to make that later scene have more impact. Even the few added storyboard scenes made the story much more compelling.

Never was looking forward to this show thanks to not only the artstyle feeling kinda derivative of the "SU" artstyle fad (I refuse to call it Calarts), but also the original comics the show was based off of were kinda bad. Feels like one of those cartoons that existed so that Twitter can pull a scene and go, "Whoa, I can't believe this show for kids did this crazy thing."

Amazing storyboards

Grandma: my dear granddaughter, please pass me the salt. Barney: ShE sAiD mE sUch aWfUl ThInGs!!1

If anything, Barney's parents are only bad for entertaining his assholery. They're spoiling him at this point.

You have the courage of the Critical Drinker. Do you know his channel? Thanks so much for these two videos, they confirm my own notes on the show. Except...I only have 15 pages. 90 is a bit...well...hahahaha

I had no idea what this show was until you told me and your version is infinitely better and actually made me feel something.

I love this show, I really do, but wow do I wish Norma was the main character instead. What an infinitely more likable, compelling, and entertaining character. At worst, Barney is uninentionally annoying and unlikable. At best, he's stale as white bread.

I love the idea of Paranormal Park, and I love transgender representation created by a transgender artist (even though Barney is a very flawed character) but the show is very slow in parts with many plot points just going nowhere. I wish Hamish the best as he is a talented man, and I hope he continues to create! Edit: Also, I agree about the world building being a mess. I was lost at episode 2!

Jesus man. Not only were your rewrites a massive improvement, but they brought legitimate tears to my eyes. The original feels like such a childish, pandering and corporate approach while the re-write actually elicit real emotions because neither side comes off like a cartoonist representation of either type of person.

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I just want a cartoon that looks like this, with the round and safe looking protagonists and all, but with hyper violence and a plot similar to Berserk or something. That'd be great subversion.

this is exactly like the edgy stories i wrote in 6th grade

Coming from a person with once toxic parent; yes, love and care is the bare minimum. I would never want someone to have what i had

I actually really liked the 2nd season. Personally, I think the story was done way better there. There aren't too many plot holes / conveniences, and most of the stories tie together which each other in some way. The animation also go buffed. Didn't really like some of the facial expressions though, looked a little too forced and cartoony.

watching this over thanksgiving break

those storyboards made me cry. instant subscription

The designs look like generic characters some 14 year old on tumblr making ocs for the first time would draw. Norma would look so much better if they just changed her nose a bit it makes her look like a muppet

Eeeeehhhh, I'd say it's more a 7/10 show. I mean, there's quite a bit of clunkiness to the writing in places and similar shows like Amphibia, The Owl House, Hilda, Infinity Train and even lighter stuff like Craig of the Creek or The Ghost & Molly McGee are fundamentally stronger shows, but for what it's worth, I think it's quite an overhated show with a good handful of interesting moments and character arcs. Norma, in particular, being one of the most interesting and enjoyable characters who, being canonically autistic, based on Hamish Steele's own autistic experiences, has an extremely relatable scenario with her fear of socializing with people (Ep 3 being a particular highlight because of it). Another fave character is Courtney (voiced by Hannah Montana's Emily Osment) for being an adorable scrunkly and also having an interesting arc about trying to get back to the Underworld. I also really like Badyah, a quirky Iranian-American nerd who didn't have much to chew on in S1 to be fair, but she does play more of a role in Season 2 with Norma plucking up the courage to confess her feeling to her, but she says she's straight (or so she thinks) but tries to make it up to her in the episode that follows. (The shipping gag of her pairing Norma and Zagan may be cringe, but that's kinda the point, amusingly satirizing the shippers online.) I also think Badyah's design is quite adorable (the round glasses reminding me of Lotte from LWA and Ridley from Glitch Techs and scarf-styled hijab are cute touches), speaking of which, I don't think the character designs are THAT bad. Sure, they're not the most sophisticated or most smoothly animated like say, Rise of the TMNT, but they're harmless enough on the eyes. Also have to give credit on the voice acting, which is mostly done by lesser known VAs of the same diverse ethnicities as many of the characters, plus more musical talents like Alex Brightman (of Beetlejuice the Musical fame) and Patrick Stump of Fallout Boy (who also did the songs for S1 E9, a good handful of which are bangers imo). Anywho, that's my take on this series and I really quite like it. The writing is FAR from perfect and takes a few shortcuts here and there and the production values aren't the highest for a Netflix series, but some of the characters are endearing and have some pretty substantial, even relatable arcs and standout moments, the animation is decent, the designs are alright and there's still a good amount of intrigue to the story. It may fumble in a few places, but goddamnit, at least it actually TRIED, unlike certain other Netflix schlock like Big Mouth or Paradise P.D. Credit where credit's due and all that. So yeah, 7/10 show, not a masterpiece by any means, but when I reactivated my Netflix account after getting curious about the talk, themes and even backlash it was getting online, I surprisingly enjoyed my time with it. Also, stan Norma because she's queen of Autism. Byyyyyye!

31:14 this dropped my jaw 💀 you’re funny man haha

So to be clear: despite having a family who accepts him but won’t stand up for him to the point where he RUNS AWAY FROM HOME, he hasn’t truly suffered. And he has no development despite the fact that he has to deal with all this pressure with his family wanting him back even though to him they don’t feel like family. But no, he has to be punished for being vigilant in the face of all this. Got it.

I mean, I disagree with all the points but thanks for watching ha ha

Well... but it is for kids (i´m just saying this because you told in ur video this would be better if it was for kids. Welllll... it kinda is...) I know there is an specific demographic of adults that would like this show. I personally thought as a kids show... its more harmless then... u know... HGS (that is not a kids shows but... it is a kid show but with blood). Don`t get me wrong, it is a mediocre show and i liked the video a lot and you are a very respectful critic of media. That`s only my opinion about your opinion about a show (wich we should not kill our selfs for, ok guys? ).

Clip out a Short of this and I'm sure you will get greater traffic on this review. I was looking for an honest review and had to dig to find this. If you did a quick minute long short, I wouldn't have had to do the digging.

Somebody needs to minimize their supply of Weed. Otherwise send it to someone else 😂

Theres no way they could have made it a good look into trans people's stories cause it's about a kid. Kids are not trans. Many kids grow up and experience gender dysphoria during puberty most grow out of it. It's actually very abusive of barney's parents to let her do whatever she wanted. The other issue is that it's all about the victim mentality of woke gender ideology. Which not only makes it impossible to be sympathetic but also takes any ounce of taking them serious that you could have had out of it.

1:17:10 What else do you expect from the Tumblr LGBT hugbox?

I just accepted the absurdism. If everyone keeps going to the park because it has demon activity and was hand waved away by the park worker as a "special events" Then that would be ok by me. But it didn't do that and I shouldn't use my headcanon as an excuse.....but it did make watching the show easier by feeling in the blanks.....mmmm. yeah, it's a reason to not watch the show no matter how I look at it. Could be worse... could have a shit tone of people defending the show.

The first argument scene in the restaurant was a metaphor

"Teenagers are demons." 💀💀💀 bruh! LOVE this, can I clip you for my next video? Edit: I also might be overthinking it, but at 43:15 the windows are the colors of the trans flag. This reflects the bus where Norma is surrounded by the rainbow flag as a stripe that surrounds all the characters.

He didn’t text his brother back because he was scared to get back in touch with his family. He literally ran away like

47:52 If this isn't proof enough for you that this show (like _so many_ others) was made for Twitter/Tumblr first and "kids" a _distant_ second, then frankly you _deserve_ to keep overpaying for Netflix instead of just pirating what little good content they _do_ have. 1:20:59 Well, _I_ have something, and I don't care if this ruffles feathers or if anyone even cares, so I'm gonna say it anyway: A lot of "Progressive" writers in today's media seem to have this tendency of leaning heavily on the advice of "writing what you know" (which is why _so many_ characters nowadays, even previously established ones, end up being nothing more than the writer's self-insert), and I'm inclined to think that this is _exactly_ what the writers of this show did: they _purposely_ wrote Barney's story and character this way because it's _their own_ "lived experience", and they _unironically_ expect you to think that Barney's parents are the villains because that's what they think of _their own_ "evil and neglectful" Conservative parents and they _need_ their own shitty behavior to be vindicated by the Twitter mob to justify this blatant corporate-funded therapy project. ...I can say this so confidently because _I myself_ have been in the shoes of Barney's parents and have experienced _this exact treatment_ from a long-time friend that ended in a really bitter and painful falling-out that I fear may _never_ be mended (and that I fear _even more_ that it may have been for the best), and you _are_ right, Manga Writer: when someone you've known and cared about for _years_ suddenly changes in ways that you don't understand or even agree with, but you _still_ play by their rules and bend over backwards for them because you still care about them and want them to be happy, yet all you get for your trouble is that person _still_ treating you and talking to you like you're some kind of soulless and irredeemable monster (even going so far as to say _to your face_ that they won't even feel safe around you unless you _literally chop your own balls off_ for them), then even the most patient person is going to snap sooner or later; and even when you _still_ try to reconcile afterwards, nothing you say or do will _ever_ stop that long-time friend from simply burning that bridge if they _genuinely_ think that they're _still_ the real victim in all this...

This show/comic was written by entitled people for entitled people. Of course the "oppressed" character is ALWAYS the victim and ALWAYS in the right even if they are the biggest cunt in the cast. Most modern Western people throwing around the queer label while being chronically online are quite entitled and narcissistic, after all. THEY are the targed audience so you have to write characters just like them: obnoxious, toxic and entitled. So many cartoons pretend to be for kids but in the end they are for mentally broken man/woman children who only care about themselves and nothing else. And can we please stop refering to anything questioning these people as "bigoted"? There is nothing bigoted about calling out identity-obsessed narcissists who want the world to revolve around them, their "triggers" and their labels. The biggest bigots I have encountered are usually people from these communities, shitting on you 24/7 for the smallest reasons because their entitled ass doesn't get the attention and praise they desire. The fact that misgendering is even treated like a criminal offense in some countries now only proves how disgustingly radicalist these people truly are. Society really needs to stop catering to the 3% of society who reduce their entire existence on a bunch of labels they discovered on tumblr a few years back. Can't get more entitled than that.

If Barney's story is an accurate representation of transphobia, then I wanna be trans

I basically don't give this show any scrap of my attention when I heard that Norma got killed off for a bit just for the sake of shock in the graphic novel series Dead End is based on

Ah yes because we have to show characters being explicitly transphobic to get the point across even though the effect of what was said was shown directly because god forbid a story about trans people is told in a way that wouldn’t be triggering for some of them.

The pfft was for his grandmother not his dad in the first episode.

Here from Cringe Panda. Have to say normally I wouldn't watch a channel like this for the sole purpose of placating a fictional character's preferred pronouns for a doubly fictional identity, but I gave leniency due to knowing Manga Writer isn't conservative and not American. Bernadette is a female. Not named Barney, not a he/him.

Ah yes, because It’s the responsibility of someone to stand up to somebody who harms them instead of just removing them from their lives so they can be happy. Got it.

So it’s bad to be vigilant against people who won’t truly stand up for you just because they accept you and care about you but don’t stand up for you because they’re conflict avoidant? That’s your first critique of Barney? Got it. Those jabs were NOT unprovoked when you factor in that conflict avoidance.

Never hear of it

I mean it is a kids show 🤷‍♀️

So a trans character can’t just be taken at their word that they are treated differently and they owe you an explanation for everything and instead all of their traumatic experiences have to be shown because it isn’t enough development to show them trying to find happiness and escape instead. Got it.

that shit is terifying

man what IS this 😭😭😭

I've never watched it because I thought it would be just a forgettable thing. Thank goodness Netflix can make way better stuff than this

Wow. You’re not even hiding the dog whistles at that point when you’re saying marginalized people should ask bigots how to write discrimination in their shows. Wow.

I dont get LGBTQ at all