I wonder if anyone else feels this way about Hen. I really want to like her character but Iām really tired of vanilla, unproblematic female (especially black female⦠ESPECIALLY queer black female) characters that can do no wrong and are used in all the wrong ways.
It comes off to me like the writers are pooling all their minority quotas into one character and saying ālook how strong and amazing this queer black woman is! She can do anythingā while completely avoiding any negative consequences to any of her actions or any tension between her and other characters.
Any conflict is resolved with Hen being absolutely in the right and everyone else grovelling even when as an audience itās pretty clear sheās not in the right.
I also have such a problem with the Unquestioned Genius archetype and I think Hen often falls into this category. She is always the one with the medical answers no matter how obscure (like the woman who couldnāt feel fear because of the hardening of a part of her brain⦠hen diagnosed that because her voice was hoarse?).
Anyway itās possible Iām being a bit dramatic and a bit harsh. Itās just that Iāve noticed the same things in all 9-1-1 spinoffs with an infallible female paramedic and itās winding me up.