Torchwood Isn't Gay Enough

[lampbane]

Yeah, that's right, Torchwood, the show about sex-crazed alien hunters created by Russell T. Davies, the very gay man who also brought us the original Queer as Folk, is not very gay at all.

Comments

[pseudohistorian]

This is an awesome, cogent analysis of the sexual dynamics on Torchwood. Seriously, I can't disagree with a single point you made, and although I've had some of these thoughts myself, you went further with it (and no doubt expressed it more articulately) than I could have.

Before I gush anymore over here, I'll probably just end up posting a link to this entry and singing your praises on my own journal. ;)

When it comes to other shows, I hear you there, too. I couldn't stand Will & Grace when it first aired because the humour seemed so one-note (and because gay innuendo isn't inherently funny), which left the premise so much more limited than it might've been. As for Queer as Folk...perhaps it's not so much gaydar there, but rather a gayser, or gaygun, that's being shot at the citizens of Pittsburgh? ;)

[luminifer]

i was just saying (i think before i read any of this thread actually) that it would be interesting to make a heterosexual version of will and grace.. to prove how unfunny it really is..

just translating all the awful 'jokes' into heterosexual terms...

[pseudohistorian]

Well, all the jokes would be, "I'm doing this instead of that because I'm straight, you know;" or, "I like this option instead of that option because I'm so very, very straight."

Mix together, repeat several times per episode for 184 episodes, and you have your heterosexual Will & Grace, no problem.

[luminifer]

exactly!

and it would be SO unfunny.

"we're going to the bedroom now.. to have heterosexual sex"

well, that's actually funny, but only because it's so odd..

[lampbane]

Just to let you know that your compliments make me all gushy inside.

Last week's episode still didn't help. Le sigh.