Queer As Folk (US)

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Doing what CowLip wants, doing what they want us to do ... [QaF wank].

It starts to heat up when polykleitos dares not to be all that upset with the ending. sassym fires back, annoyed at being called a shipper and then provides some details of her life for reasons I can't quite understand, but that's okay, because other peoples' blind indignation is funny. She also claims to feel "betrayed and abused" by the series.

I love that site.

[kathy1977]

On my God. The Gone With the Wind icon with Michael as Melly, Justin as Rhett, and Brian as Scarlett is the funniest thing I've ever seen!

[snacktastic]

No shit, it's quite brilliant. Aw QAF, isn't there a part of all of us that will miss it? At least in terms of complaining about it?

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snacktastic said:

Aw QAF, isn't there a part of all of us that will miss it? At least in terms of complaining about it?

That's a great way of looking at it. I hated the show after the pilot aired -- and yet five years later, here I am, bitching about the ridiculousness of it all. I wonder what other show I'll have to learn to love to hate next season.

I downloaded the last six minutes of the final episode from that livejournal site ane linked to. It was, as expected, over the top bad. The last sentence in the V/O was particularly hysterical, awful, contrived, and moronic. I would have accepted nothing less.

[kathy1977]

I know people who hated this show from the very beginning but still watched every season. So it kind of became part of their lives. I only just started watching in the middle of the 4th season so I won't miss it as much as the people who have been watching from the beginning. So other then the snarking I honestly can't think of a thing I will miss.

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Oh by the way, stickykeys, I saw the joke. Puns?!?? And you know, La Chapelle would direct some shit like that.

And let me remind you all what ane said several pages back:

(Isn't it ironic, in this context, that Gale means "crazy" in Norwegian? No? Okay.)

Yeah, crazy as batshit (in Norwegian).

Btw, for a more substantive sentence: Check this out, Bad QAF Fanfic[/color]

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That link was hysterical.

If I read about Brian or Justin being in the throws of passion or Justin's ass gripping Brian's dick like a vice one more time, I may not be responsible for my actions.

I thought I knew most about fan fiction until the other day when I stumbled over a so-called Mpreg (or something to that effect) story. Justin was pregnant with Brian's child. WTF? Apparently, this is a common plotline in lots of slash stories. Is this common knowledge? And what is the fascination with it?

[clementine74]

Blimey--I forgot to comment on Ben's Class of Merry Homos. I swear. this show is killing all my good snarky brain cells.
What do you think the casting breakdown for those roles looked like? Let's imagine:
Seeking--For QAF-
Actors to play Ben's students in his Gay and Lesbian classes. Looking for the most stereotypically gay people (early 20's). Women should have crew cuts and wear plaid, men should worship Judy Garland and spew phrases such as, "Snap" and "You, go girl".
Seriously, those were some of the most annoying people I've ever had on my TV, and that's saying a lot, because my TV has also seen the likes of Blowout's Jonathan Antin.
Thank GOD this show is ending, because I'm barely hanging on by a thread. I've tried TWICE to finish watching last week's episode, but 40 minutes later, and I'm typing away furiously on my Mac.
Remember when Em was screwing the rich geezer, Michael was being outed at his toy store job, and Brian was attempting Hutchence-style pseudo-suicide (IIRC)? Those were the days my friends...

[swanflake]

I just spent the last couple of hours reading this entire thread, after having watched three episodes from season two last night. I actually found it fairly entertaining, but far from profound. In high school I had a friend tell me that this show is like a gay "Sex and the City". No it isn't! I don't really know what else to say other than, while it might look sexy and aggressive or whatever, Brian should not be ripping open condoms with his teeth. It's possible that your teeth can nip the latex and compromise the effectiveness of the condom. And that concludes today's sex ed lesson.

I need to rent a few more discs to sort out this bizarre relationship that Brian and Justin seem to have. And what is that stuff that Brian snorts before getting fellatio from a stranger at a disgusting nightclub? Is it just cocaine, or some sort of aphrodisiac?

[huntergrayson]

If it's a powder, it's coke, if it's a small bottle, it's poppers. Which somehow are legal. I've done them but have no idea how exactly they work, but they make a guy extremely horny.

I didn't watch season two, but I highly recommend TWOP's S1/S2 recaps to put the show in it's place.

I actually found it fairly entertaining, but far from profound

Oh, the show is entertaining, but as everyone has mentioned, takes itself way too seriously. If everyone could admit it was a soap and be slightly more arch or over-the-top it'd be golden, but instead it has this genre whiplash between being redonkulous and wanting to be high art. Sadly, I now find it more entertaining in a train wreck way.

So, where can I download the finale? I know I wanted to be surprised, but after last week's ep and the give nearly everything away previews, I don't care as much. Plus, i want to be spoiled so I can read the fandom wank stuff.

As a writer/filmmaker/whatever, it makes me so sad to see all these people consistently give the shortest thrift to the best actors in the show (i.e Peter Paige and Scott Lowell -- Bobby Gant has his moments). Oh well, I'll always have the magazine that Randy Harrison signed to my (more) gay, Eurotrash alter ego.