Hot take on 4x05

I know they dismissed Constangreen, and I ship it too, but can we please stop the negativity about the possible ending of this ship (we were given closure in episode 3, in a way) and start being hyped for Mona/Gary? Because as soon as she learns to stop calling him Mr. Green, I feel like this is gonna be an adorable, healthy relationship. Yeet.

No.

I’ll happily accept any healthy relationship Gary gets in the end, and Gary with Mona will be adorable as hell, but I cannot in good conscience disregard what happened to Constangreen, in canon, on such an openly representative show. They built up the anticipation and humor surrounding the coupling, and then dropped a “he said it’s over, so it’s over,” off-camera “break up.” It wasn’t closure, it was dismissal. It was erasure of a m/m potential relationship, when we haven’t had a main character m/m relationship in the entirety of the Arrowverse (and no, Curtis doesn’t count - his man has been in three or four scenes over the course of a year).

So don’t say we need to “stop the negativity,” because this was actually queerbaiting, by definition.

And you can totally support a relationship while disapproving of what happened to another, involving the same characters.