It would be a different matter if he brought it up unprompted, but he didn't.

It's about damn time Quentin called out the Dean for the whole Beast thing.

Not from tits.

Despite its efforts to paint a very comprehensive picture of queer culture in these countries, it has a pretty narrow scope for queerness. Page and Daniel are white Americans [sic], and the language they use is somewhat limited by the world they come from.

Yes, we can. Did I say otherwise? Discussing violence against women in fiction, and the growing concern towards it, permits discussion of violence in fiction in general and why certain forms of it don't garner attention, are seen as acceptable.

Lance and Nina are a one-note joke: the most masculine of masculine men (played by a woman), and the most feminine of feminine women (played by a man), to the point of being stereotypes. Lance is a tough biker who hates emotions and difficulties that can't be resolved with fighting, while Nina is soft and naïve and…

He's not nearly shy/mousy enough.

It isn't a perfect match, but analogies often aren't. Strip away the Whedonesque dialogue and he has the cute dork/geek factor of early Willow and the sarcasm and outcast self-awareness of early Xander.

I think the prospect of a distraction got him interested, but he's now directly part of the Beast story line (poor meat puppet Mike) and wants to be involved.

Gay black catatonic women, such a stereotype! I just can't think of a single other example.

Isn't this generally the case though, in genre TV? Cf. the Hellmouth Effect used in Buffy.

Don't forget the two children killed in the same episode as Kiera. Nobody cares if white characters die for plot reasons, I guess.

Quentin is basically Xander and Willow from the first few seasons.

tripping

So going forward this show, and all other shows likely to have on-screen deaths, should only write for and hire white actors to play straight characters, because it's perfectly acceptable to kill white people and straight people (preferably male) to advance the plot. Got it.

There's a lot of violence on TV, period.

So a show can use molested, poisoned, and murdered (white) children to advance the main character's progress from a state of arrested development to maturity (lampshaded by Penny's "you'll never be a man"; paraphrased), but make a guest spot character black and/or female and/or gay and use her the same way (though enti…

He could have, but Quentin was in Antarctica and the Beast may not have known that was going to happen once he got to Brakebills.

"Mike" got him on the campus (graduate key), befriending/boning Elliot brought him into Q's orbit once he returned from Antarctica, attacking Q drew Eliza in.

This is generally my complaint about fantasy in general.