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[booasaur]

Heya! What did you think of the latest Gotham Knights? I don't wanna ask spoilery or leading questions if you haven't seen it yet?

I was finally JUST able to watch it last night and it was craaaazy. There was so much Sharper, they used the word Sharper!

It was really strong Harper->Stephanie stuff, at least, we don't really know what Stephanie yet feels, she's very friendly and a bit flirty but not to the point of confirming anything. "Like a brother to me" should have shut the door on Turner/Stephanie, but then we have next week's preview...

Based on how TV stories are normally told, it still feels like Turner/Duela and Sharper are the stronger pairs. Given the many parts of this love square and that it's a 13 ep season, for Turner/Stephanie (if it is them and not Turner hallucinating) to already happen by ep 10 means it's not the big climactic romance and we still have three eps for more to play out with it all. Whatever happens first isn't "settled", basically.

Even if, we then get more activity for the other two ships only to come back to this one by the end of the season, it just feels extremely unlikely to me that they'd stick with this one ship permanently and leave Duela and Harper with no one. And not just because they've spent far more time developing Turner/Duela (what's their ship name, lol) and Sharper romantically than Turner/Stephanie. Hell, the Turner/Stephanie hug and handhold this ep were half for the purpose of letting us see Duela and Harper's reactions.

Still, two little obstacles to happy Sharper. That "you always go for the himbo or straight girl" talk from Cullen was interesting. The point of a discussion like that, well, the point of anything at all in fictional media is to prompt some kind of action or change. Here, it's made Harper take more seriously the idea that Stephanie is straight and not a realistic option for her and then being in the right (or wrong) place to have that seemingly confirmed by the handhold. We the audience know that was platonic (in the moment, lol, that damn preview--well, and to be fair, that one scene a few eps back), but now most likely the next eps will have Harper withdraw from Stephanie a bit, possibly to prompt Stephanie to then ask what's up?

The other possible consequence of that discussion is to make Harper and the audience really think it's true, that she only goes for unattainable people and should focus on opening herself up to someone serious, but, lol, who? There's no OTHER queer girl that we've seen and the only other guy she's not related to is Turner, which, that would be truly ridiculous. I mean, there's Brody, but she literally hasn't said a single word to him and how would he not fall in the himbo category, if Dylan does.

The other issue, of course, is the fact that when this was written, the CW was still giving blanket renewals, so the writers may have set up a cliffhanger or very temporary end to this season, confident in the knowledge they'd get another one, but in the new climate this could very well be the true end. Just gonna have to see how this plays out, I guess.

[booasaur]

Besides some AU’s in the comics Stephanie Brown bi is more hinted that actually canon.

She sadly was set as an eternal love interest for Tim.

I saw some stuff happening with Cassandra Cain but not sure what happened after that.

Harper Row the last time I read about her is that she was kinda a love interest for Tim? At least in her introduction.

Is funny because Tim now got a bf in the comics and the ladies started dating each other.

Oh, wow, thanks, I didn't know about their comic history at all, interesting! A bit of a TV Korrasaming of the comic characters, huh. :P

But hmm, Stephanie's line in this recent ep about not feeling sparks with either Brody or Turner, like, in real life that wouldn't have to mean anything at all but on a scripted medium where nothing's by accident or coincidental, I wonder if they're implying something else. Lesbian, ace, possibly still bi, just not into those guys.

Unfortunately, not sure we'll get the time to explore that in this series, and I also don't think this show is going to affect comics canon the way other adaptations have, so whatever we get in these next three eps will probably be it for this incarnation of the characters.

[booasaur]

awkward moment when I’ve already seen most of those pairings 😂 thanks boo and everyone for the suggestions! Unfortunately, though there are many, like some that came to mind was (Penelope x Josie) from legacies and (that one from Irma vep), they never get their stories fleshed out like their male counterparts.. I might try out those second chance books though, cos I’m running out of wlw content fast ☹️

Ooh, yeah, one of my friends also mentioned Legacies, and that they were too cowardly to go there. :P

Irma Vep was another good almost situation, it's very true, there are very few actual f/f stories of exes, and many of them don't really get the actual refalling in love or reconciliation treatment. I guess... it's hard enough to get f/f characters and dynamics with any depth and richness, and it's even harder for them to have complicated past histories as well.

Good luck with the books, hopefully that'll offer more scope!