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I loved the episode but it is very much a gay story
I disagree.
The characters involved happen to be gay, but there's nothing in the scenarios that are exclusive to gay couples. The same messages can be taken from it even if they were a hetero couple.
There definitely are. Before the collapse of society, these two characters would not have been allowed to marry in the place where they live. It was only after societal collapse that they were free to be their true selves without discrimination or government oversight to tell them that their love was wrong.
It would not be the same story if it was a hetero couple, and it is dismissive to the unique challenges faced by gay people to suggest it would be.
Does it really matter though? Because from what I watched that episode was what someone would do for love. And to be honest, I don't think it would've had as big as an impact with a hetero couple.
I mean I think that's the point of the episode. Love is love.
I just disagree with the idea that the context doesn't matter, because heterosexual love and homosexual love were not viewed the same before societal collapse and so it wouldn't have been liberating in the same way for a hetero couple.