In their defense, I doubt they were thinking in terms of race at all when it came to Bismuth. I don't really know what to say here, because, ignoring the race of the actor playing her, the character beats work really well. Bismuth wants to kill pretty much any homeworld gem (which is not as extreme as you make it…

That's pretty close to the opposite of what I said.

people really bring up that connection? They're so distantly related, why stop at Cheney? I share a grandparent with Obama too, as does literally everyone else, and all other living organisms on the planet Earth.

The only thing a little weird about it though is the fact that it has to eat, and eat things from this dimension. It reduces the culpability of the government/Eleven because it surely must have always had the ability to create portals to and from our worlds, otherwise how else would it feed? As it is though I really…