this turned into the spanish channel when i wasn't looking.
everyone's packing the train with their oversized suitcases (seriously, you guys, it's a four-day weekend, not a 6 week walking tour of europe), meanwhile i am packing my overnight bag so i can ... spend the night at smartlikejustin's house! tonight i will sleep there, my slowly-brining turkey clutched to my bosom as though it is the future heir of my nation, and the magic will touch us.
or ... something.
let's call this one: "occasionally i emerge from my stupor and remember that television has betrayed me with its heteronormativity, part xix"
studio 60: you have told me that hollywood is full of gays, you have semi-told me that you are pro same-sex marriage and people who are against same-sex marriage are wrong (i say "semi-told" because everyone's "oh, harriet" reaction to harriet's homophobic and bigoted shenanigans is not a terribly convincing argument of support), but your show DOES NOT HAVE ANY GAY CHARACTERS. how likely is it, really, that there is not a single gay writer, actor or crew member working for that show? this is the third time aaron sorkin has created a show with a large, liberal leaning (remember, dan rydell/hilary clinton = otp, even) ensemble cast without a single re-occuring gay character, but it's the first time he's done it WHILE ALSO SETTING THE SHOW IN FUCKING HOLLYWOOD. i mean. i just. and i know this is dumb, and it's just television, but it actually hurts my feelings. you tell me there should be lots of gay people, you tell me that you think gay people are a-okay, so where are all the gay people?
nip/tuck: i mean, whatever, i never actually thought that christian was truly gay for sean either. but in this season alone christian's fucked a mother/daughter combo, sean's fucked the babysitter, julia's fucked the little person baby sitter, and matt's fucked the ex-girlfriend of his father/ex-fiancee of his biological father, you're telling me it'd be over the line to at least have sean and christian kiss before they realized that, wow, no, they don't love each other like that.
because i don't believe for a second that sean would be able to be all "hahah children who were abused, ahem," i think i'd either be total RAGE CAMERA sean, or he'd go for it because he's fucked up and lonely because julia left and he needed to try to entrap the one person who's always going to be there for him. it would have been hilarious if sean had talked himself into it because he thought it was what christian needed and christian had gone along with it because he thought sean needed it and they'd kissed for, like, a second and then they'd both been, "yeah ... no."
normally i would never even dream of wishing that something like that would actually happen on a show, but, hello, merrill was escobar's PRISON WIFE, i can't get six seconds of sean/christian homopanic, and this from a gay show runner? .
this weekend, actually, smartlikejustin and i were talking about trace ayala (as we are wont) and that story we wrote about him that one time, and how it's the story we'd most like to see turned into a tv show, and i said "i think they already made that show, it's called entourage." but then we realized that the reason that entourage is never quite as good as we want it to be is that trace combines the position of eric and the personality of turtle, and how the show would be a lot better if turtle and eric were the same person, and how our show would be entourage meets the wire (because we had been tangentially talking about how the wire is gay for a straight audience) meets AWESOME, and it would be kinda gay, except not, but it would be the show that i am always wishing for, the one where the two male characters are weird about each other and it's actually going somewhere.
but i guess until i make that show myself, it ain't gonna happen.
paintedmaypole has joined us for the holiday (momentary weirdness: i used to come into boston to visit the kids and stay at k8's apartment in somerville, now k8 comes into boston to visit the kids and stays at my apartment in somerville) and she met me at work to get the keys to my apartment, which i completely used as an excuse to leave after having only been there for, like, two and a half hours, because i was convinced that crushing gingersnaps and shaving panela was going to take a lot longer than it actually did, and now i'm just sitting alone in my freezing apartment watching television and, aaaaah watching re-air of red sox hall of fame 2006 induction ceremony, WHY ARE PITCHERS AND CATCHERS SO FAR AWAY?
ahem. happy thanksgiving to all my american friends!
or ... something.
let's call this one: "occasionally i emerge from my stupor and remember that television has betrayed me with its heteronormativity, part xix"
studio 60: you have told me that hollywood is full of gays, you have semi-told me that you are pro same-sex marriage and people who are against same-sex marriage are wrong (i say "semi-told" because everyone's "oh, harriet" reaction to harriet's homophobic and bigoted shenanigans is not a terribly convincing argument of support), but your show DOES NOT HAVE ANY GAY CHARACTERS. how likely is it, really, that there is not a single gay writer, actor or crew member working for that show? this is the third time aaron sorkin has created a show with a large, liberal leaning (remember, dan rydell/hilary clinton = otp, even) ensemble cast without a single re-occuring gay character, but it's the first time he's done it WHILE ALSO SETTING THE SHOW IN FUCKING HOLLYWOOD. i mean. i just. and i know this is dumb, and it's just television, but it actually hurts my feelings. you tell me there should be lots of gay people, you tell me that you think gay people are a-okay, so where are all the gay people?
nip/tuck: i mean, whatever, i never actually thought that christian was truly gay for sean either. but in this season alone christian's fucked a mother/daughter combo, sean's fucked the babysitter, julia's fucked the little person baby sitter, and matt's fucked the ex-girlfriend of his father/ex-fiancee of his biological father, you're telling me it'd be over the line to at least have sean and christian kiss before they realized that, wow, no, they don't love each other like that.
because i don't believe for a second that sean would be able to be all "hahah children who were abused, ahem," i think i'd either be total RAGE CAMERA sean, or he'd go for it because he's fucked up and lonely because julia left and he needed to try to entrap the one person who's always going to be there for him. it would have been hilarious if sean had talked himself into it because he thought it was what christian needed and christian had gone along with it because he thought sean needed it and they'd kissed for, like, a second and then they'd both been, "yeah ... no."
normally i would never even dream of wishing that something like that would actually happen on a show, but, hello, merrill was escobar's PRISON WIFE, i can't get six seconds of sean/christian homopanic, and this from a gay show runner? .
this weekend, actually, smartlikejustin and i were talking about trace ayala (as we are wont) and that story we wrote about him that one time, and how it's the story we'd most like to see turned into a tv show, and i said "i think they already made that show, it's called entourage." but then we realized that the reason that entourage is never quite as good as we want it to be is that trace combines the position of eric and the personality of turtle, and how the show would be a lot better if turtle and eric were the same person, and how our show would be entourage meets the wire (because we had been tangentially talking about how the wire is gay for a straight audience) meets AWESOME, and it would be kinda gay, except not, but it would be the show that i am always wishing for, the one where the two male characters are weird about each other and it's actually going somewhere.
but i guess until i make that show myself, it ain't gonna happen.
paintedmaypole has joined us for the holiday (momentary weirdness: i used to come into boston to visit the kids and stay at k8's apartment in somerville, now k8 comes into boston to visit the kids and stays at my apartment in somerville) and she met me at work to get the keys to my apartment, which i completely used as an excuse to leave after having only been there for, like, two and a half hours, because i was convinced that crushing gingersnaps and shaving panela was going to take a lot longer than it actually did, and now i'm just sitting alone in my freezing apartment watching television and, aaaaah watching re-air of red sox hall of fame 2006 induction ceremony, WHY ARE PITCHERS AND CATCHERS SO FAR AWAY?
ahem. happy thanksgiving to all my american friends!