We've come a long way...
I love pics of actors looking like they are having fun. This cutie is Eliot Knight from American Gothic (and also Merlin in OUaT which I have been watching recently as well) with Anthony Starrr behind him.
I've just finished the season of American Gothic and I liked the resolution of the plot. Wasn't surprised when the politician chose her husband and kids over her girlfriend, was not expecting the husband to bow out and for them to get back together. The final happy ending with the family picnic on the beach and her kissing her girlfriend in public seemed a tad unlikely, given she'd only been elected mayor in the last year. Can't imagine that'd go down well in the media.
It seems like most of the shows I've watched in the last few months have had lesbian couples, most of whom have had happy endings, yay! Representation in genre shows, FTW! I found myself feeling resentful that we still don't have the same representation for gay dudes, which is true of course, but on the other hand Shadow Hunters has a very pretty gay couple in it and yet I am not watching that show - mostly because Bunny was unimpressed with the first couple of eps because they were the same plot as the movie, and didn't want to watch any more. And I'm watching Versailles but I don't really like most of the characters and actively wish the Chevalier would DIE, which is not really what I want to be feeling about one half of the sexy gay couple who obligingly have a lot of raunchy sex. IDK, i'm only four eps in and he is super manipulative and I'm yet to be convinced he genuinely cares about Phillipe at all.
Basically we've come a long way from the days when we had to cling to ANYTHING with the slightest hint of gay subtext, like Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia and Mountains of the Moon, because that was all we had. And i am so very grateful.
I've just finished the season of American Gothic and I liked the resolution of the plot. Wasn't surprised when the politician chose her husband and kids over her girlfriend, was not expecting the husband to bow out and for them to get back together. The final happy ending with the family picnic on the beach and her kissing her girlfriend in public seemed a tad unlikely, given she'd only been elected mayor in the last year. Can't imagine that'd go down well in the media.
It seems like most of the shows I've watched in the last few months have had lesbian couples, most of whom have had happy endings, yay! Representation in genre shows, FTW! I found myself feeling resentful that we still don't have the same representation for gay dudes, which is true of course, but on the other hand Shadow Hunters has a very pretty gay couple in it and yet I am not watching that show - mostly because Bunny was unimpressed with the first couple of eps because they were the same plot as the movie, and didn't want to watch any more. And I'm watching Versailles but I don't really like most of the characters and actively wish the Chevalier would DIE, which is not really what I want to be feeling about one half of the sexy gay couple who obligingly have a lot of raunchy sex. IDK, i'm only four eps in and he is super manipulative and I'm yet to be convinced he genuinely cares about Phillipe at all.
Basically we've come a long way from the days when we had to cling to ANYTHING with the slightest hint of gay subtext, like Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia and Mountains of the Moon, because that was all we had. And i am so very grateful.