the fact that imogen turns into a mermaid in tbomt season 2 just gives me confirmation that she is a bisexual and that her and tayla are meant to be. like come on jonathan let your charachers be queer it's so obvious
So I speed watched (ten hours crammed into two) season 2 of The Bureau of Magical Things. I know it's for children (also, who cares); I was curious to see if they would give the very obviously sapphic character a sapphic love interest. The answer is they did... but didn't.
They built her side storyline around a character that has all the workings of a love interest – enemies to friends to """lovers""", special concern for each other's safety (going so far as to only being worried about THAT person amongst like seven of them and being ready to go to extreme lengths to make sure they're safe), spend all their extra time together, long stares, dopey smiles, saying the time they've known each other has been memorable, saving one another, making special childhood smoothies for comfort, one of them saying the other looks cute and everyone looking at them like 👀 that's gay 👀, etc etc etc (also, I already knew and love the actress who plays Tayla, Miah Madden, from another show - she's suuuper adorable and very, very talented imho), all without outright "calling" her a love interest.
I mean, google "bureau magical things imogen tayla". You'll see I'm not imagining things. IT'S MADE ITS WAY TO TUMBLR ALREADY.
So you have everyone paired off in actual couples except for two girls who are very clearly romantic but it never gets past the friendship stage, officially. And I get it, children's show, but also??? That doesn't fly anymore??? And it's a pity, because it's an adorable series, definitely something I would be okay with my young kids watching (if I had any), but this really sets it back. Modern TV isn't there anymore.
I mean, they're adorable and VERY CLEARLY romantic, even if the show doesn't make it official. But TV has already reached the era of calling a spade a spade. Even children's TV.
Imogen and Darra were absolutely competing for Kyra attention like listen they both continued to interact which isn’t unusual on it’s on own but Imogen expresses a lot of anger directed at Kyra so why continue interacting with her right? Right, anyways she also constantly demands her full attention for things that shouldn’t even really matter to her, Kyra that is, therefore Imogen likely harbors some type of feelings for her
I often see people questioning the oversimplification of the BoMT world being restricted to humans, fairies, and elves, when the show itself brings up mermaids. I'm surprised people don't also mention goblins and nymphs, which are mentioned in the first two episodes of the first season. Maybe these other beings are minorities, who don't get a lot of representation? In which case, the DMI needs some serious affirmative action!
Speed binged the new season of The bureau of magical things and it's decent enough. Apart from the ending. The ending is awful. Even for a show that is rather loose with the concept of plots making sense, this made absolutely no sense.