From Nick Patch of the Toronto Star:
Tatiana Maslany laments reaction to (spoiler’s) death
“There’s a bizarre focus on the fact that she’s bisexual or a lesbian and has been killed off, and that really reduces her to one thing in representing something, as opposed to being an individual. I find that to be a problematic complaint. She’s so much more than her sexuality and to make it about, ‘well, we killed off a lesbian character,’ that’s really reductive.†Continue reading.Â
Interesting. We suffered similar reactions on both sides of the coin. Anger on one side for the introduction of a gay character coupled with equal anger at her demise.