Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13022928-20180109024620/@comment-13022928-20180111171115

Thank you and again I agree let's not compare our differences.

Now I do agree with the fact that LGBT characters are one of the lowest represented demographic. I also agree that to an extent they should be careful about how many they kill off. My problem with With this however is it eventually becomes a problem for storytelling. If you say 25 LGBT characters have died this year, so it's insensitive if a show kills off another what if a story revolves around that character dying for the story.

For example in 2016 on TWD a LGBT character was killed off, and it was done due to the source material and the story they were telling. Lexa s death was definitely weak, but her death was needed for the story they were telling. Also if you have characters like Bryan and Niylah who are mainly there to prop up and advance their partners story you have to expect they might die.

This is a show about people surviving the apocalypse not everyone is going to survive and live happily ever after. When you watch a show about this topic and there are LGBT characters you have to expect they might not survive.

Finally if you use the argument of 25 LGBT characters have died so I'd be insensitive if a show kills off another  can be applied to any minority group. Look at the cop and hospital shows, cop shows almost always portray criminals as African Americans and sometimes African Americans are killed. Now I know African Americans are represented more than LGBT but what's stopping that community from saying too many African Americans have been killed this year so it'd be insensitive if a show kills off another. If you look at how many cop and medical shows are on minority characters are a lot of the times the victims of deaths, and if you look at how many are on a week the death toll of minority groups are probably higher than LGBT characters.

Again I'm not comparing these two cause obviously minority groups are represented more I'm just playing devils advocate.

Thank you again for your comments it's nice to hear from someone who is a member of the LGBT community.