Talk:Ilia Amitola/@comment-28358937-20171219120540/@comment-95.133.20.129-20171221074832

Well, making Ilia a third person in the show who oficially has a huge crush on Blake is a bad thing. Is she a fair Helen (helen of Troy) or what?

People mostly didn't like Blake's arc in V4. She've got a lot of hate and disapproval. Redeeming herself to the audience from this perspective needs some time. But that "oh, I love you, Blake" was dropped before Blake even started making up, so it caused a stupid trope "everyone loves Blake" - yup, averyone but the audience.

And I have to admit that people are far more forgiving for gay characters than for the straight ones. I mean, take Adam and Ilia: both do not show any sigh of affection towards Blake up to some moment. Both complain about their crush being one-sided (in a certain way). Both hurt the people Blake loves. I even do not talk about the assasination attempt - just take Sun. He dared to stick Ilia's nerve - and that was enough for her to stab him. Adam saw that Yang was someone important for Blake - and it was enough for him to cut her arm. I don't see any difference between Adam and Ilia - they are both selfish and they feel free to hurt people if they find it necessary/useful. Though RT try to push a lot of copassion towards Ilia, and I don't buy it.

Everytime I see a male!villian/female!protagonist pairing it's all about abuse etc. Everytime I see tha same gay pairing - it's "awwwww, it's so sweeeeet!" Damn, people ship Neo x Yang so hard - though Neo had almost killed Yang. I just don't get it.

And I'm completely fine with gay people and homoromance in stories. But I don't like the tendency. All this "if they kill Ilia it definitey will be burry-your-gays trope"/"making a first gay character in the story a villian is terrible" is a complete shit and I don't buy it. It's ridiculous when people say that some characters shouldn't be killed not because it's unnecessary for the current plot/the character development, but just becuse it is a gay character and killing her or him will not be tolerant. What a nice way to give a character plot-defence, bravo. I'll say it once: tolerance should not contradict the logic of the plot. If it does - sorry, writers, but you are those who drove you in this corner, deal with it.

Finally, she's nothing special at all. She didn't add smth new to the WH plot. She is not a type of moral-gray character we all thought she could be. She isn't smth between violent Adam's and peacefull Blake's way. She's just gay for Blake. Another fan-service character, and that's what I don't like. End of the story.