Comments | loligo: oh, you cannot be serious

loligo

oh, you cannot be serious

Mar 16, 2009 08:13

Okay, after reading coverage of the series on AfterElton.com, I retract somewhere between one-half to one-third of my squee over Kings. Because, hello television producers, THE SLASH IS CANON. One can argue over whether David and Jonathan were gay in the modern conception of the term, but one *cannot* deny that their relationship possessed the ( Read more... )

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cofax7 March 16 2009, 16:12:48 UTC

Well, hell. Bad network!

svilleficrecs March 16 2009, 18:27:05 UTC

Not that I have any faith in the producers, but if they're enemies at first, it gives them room to grow together.

amaebi March 16 2009, 18:36:55 UTC

That sounds absolutely, totally appalling.

serrana March 17 2009, 05:18:55 UTC

Just finished watching, and...oh, the dialogue goes clunk clunk clunk, but the visuals sure are pretty, and hey: Big Ole Bible History Show ( ... )

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serrana March 19 2009, 03:12:11 UTC

...I thought when I got baptized that it made sense to RTFM, but I have come to understand that most folks don't see things that way.

tavella March 17 2009, 19:38:56 UTC

Yeah, definitely not for me. I'm not a big fan of soap operas to start with, and ones where it's All About The White Guys and their Problems, with women and PoCs as ornamental support to their story... nope. Especially when you throw in the effete fop as the gay villain.

And it's absolutely cultural appropriation, no different than whiting up Avatar's heroes; one of the great biblical love stories (and it's a love story, whether it involved sex or not), turned into yet another example of how the manly heterosexual properly rejects and overcomes the fag who lusts after him.