Steven DeKnight about same sex relationship on his show

Jul 27, 2013 00:51

"I was inundated with mostly guys saying, ‘I love the show, but can you cut it out with the gay shit?’" DeKnight said. “And my reply was always ‘No. If you don’t like it, stop watching the show.’" DeKnight talked at length about how he and executive producer Rob Tapert felt strongly about depicting gay characters who were no different from any ( Read more... )

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bm_shipper July 27 2013, 07:15:47 UTC
Well said :)
And I feel like - even though there are not THAT many gay characters in TW - it's almost the same there. Danny isn't treated any different than anyone else just because he's gay :)

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fanarts_series July 27 2013, 07:42:44 UTC
Jeff and Steven are very buddies in live and Jeff said he wanted to do a teen show almost like Sparty as it was possible to do at a MTV/Sparty level.
MTV made some progress, it's better than nothing even if they have a lot more to do.

Did you read the pitch of DeKnight new show "incursion" it's an syfy opera, he said for him, it's Brand of brothers meets Halo and the leader is a female and there are at least one gay couple in it.
Plus crossing fingers, he hopes to have Dan in his new show.

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bm_shipper July 27 2013, 08:06:45 UTC
No, I didn't, but that sounds nice :)

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