About Lance! There was actually something I've been thinking about so much that would've added so much depth to his character! I think that since he is a Black man and possibly a minority in Corona society, maybe they could've explored his origin and worked in racism into the show. Like in Big Brothers, I think it would've been interesting to see him be rejected for the guard instructor role because of "his people" were deemed untrustworthy. I really think that couldve been interesting 🤷🏽♀️
I don’t think they’d have gone that route. There are a few black guards, after all.
Not to mention the other black citizens of high standing in Corona, and the black royalty/nobility we see from time to time. (Sure, there aren’t a lot in the series and I 100% acknowledge that, but there is so much more racial diversity in the series than there was in the movie.)
Besides, I sort of feel like using Lance to make racism a plot would, ah... how to put this delicately...? It would make literally everything to do with Madam Canardist look like utter hypocrisy.
That being said, it’s all fine and dandy that Lance bonded with Catalina and Kiera in the background of the story and that he adopted them at the end, but they never made any mention, even in passing, that adopting them was something he was considering. I’m glad he did, don’t get me wrong, but they were so focus on making him the buffoonic comic relief that they didn’t make him look like he’d be a competent father in any way, shape or form. It’s all subtext, so sub that we need a magnifying glass to see it.
Ah well. Series is over, characters are in our hands now, we can develop Lance as much as we want, as a fandom.