Queer As Folk (US)

[stickykeys]

He's the kind of guy I'd like to do.

Then smack upside the head.

Then do again.

[huntergrayson]

I haven't watched in so long, but god, this show is still utter crap. It's not just the horrible soapiness, the bad dialogue and the wooden actors -- it's all of that combined with the fact that the show thinks it is so groundbreaking and serious and the best gay drama evah.

The opening of the first ep, so "insightfully" pointing out how every gay man is a clone and such, but we're above that? Right. Because every actor in QAF isn't a perfect white guy with killer abs. There's such diversity in the casting. Sigh...

Are we even supposed to like anyone on the show? Mel and Linds break up and somehow, their long-time friends show no concern as to how they're dealing with it, but instead sue them and get all "not without my daughter!"

At the party, it really bothered me when Ben said something along the lines of "It's so important in this day an age to show that a gay couple can be just as committed as heteros." True, I guess, but who speaks that way? These people are your friends, you know them but can't say anything specific and personal, instead spreading the message? That's the kind of sanctimonuousness (sp?) that irks me. Oh and also I didn't quite see the irony, given how subtle it was.

This show also hates straight people, seeing as how no one interacts with them and when they do, it's negative because all heteros are homophobes.

[stickykeys]

I think that's a part of what I like about the show.

It's so wrong that it's good in the most horrible way. Like, they take themselves sooo seriously, then some crazy, campy thing will happen and you just sit there scratching your head, like, what? That's a part of what I love about it. That even though it's so predictable, they always pick the zaniest story lines and go balls out with them.

Remember Justin and the Pink Posse? Wasn't that the craziest crap you'd ever seen in your life? But for the show it worked, and anything to get Chris Hobbs back in my life (I'm a sucker for a bad boy) works for me.

Also,

Someone refresh my drink,

did Michael finish paying off Debbie's house, or did he take over the payments? I can't remember the details, but I know something happened with that. I ask because as a new business owner, how is his credit stable enough to buy a frickin house!?

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huntergrayson said:

Are we even supposed to like anyone on the show? Mel and Linds break up and somehow, their long-time friends show no concern as to how they're dealing with it, but instead sue them and get all "not without my daughter!"

Hee! It's so typical of QaF to completely take a character out of their context and make them do a personality 180 and have us believe it. As IF Michael would sue them for his child -- Michael is ball-less and never, ever would do something like that. I swear, he'd just whimper them to death in order to get them back together. The other beauty of the show is that we can basically alreadly know how the storyline resolves: Mel and Linds, in the process of joining forces to battle now-evil Michael, realize how much they love each other and get back together. Of course, afterwards, they forgive Michael for his completely inappropriate interruption into their persona lives and THANK HIM for being the catalyst to their renewed relationship. I give it 4 episodes until all this comes to pass.

This show also hates straight people, seeing as how no one interacts with them and when they do, it's negative because all heteros are homophobes.

Love that aspect of the show, too! It's like, "Can your writers hit me over the head a billion times with a brick to make sure I get the point?" You know, because there's no room for subtlety on the show. I get it! Heteros are evil -- except Debbie. And she even got "evil" when Michael decided to start dating Ben.

Remember Justin and the Pink Posse?

Argh!! I'm trying to forget! Hell, I'm trying to forget that Brian could successfully cover his chemo treatment and ensuing loss of a testicle by claiming he's going to Belize (say it RIGHT!) then, only weeks later, ride from Toronto to Pittsburgh in a bike-a-thon he trained for only via a spinning class!

[clementine74]

huntergrayson said:

This show also hates straight people, seeing as how no one interacts with them and when they do, it's negative because all heteros are homophobes.

Yeah. What I always found odd is that these men have no straight girls as friends. That's just unrealistic. And, no, I don't count Daphne, because they A) didn't give her anything to do, B) I refuse to acknowledge Justin's existense.

I am the only one always hoping for a lil Brian/Lindsay reunion? I have always thought these two have better chemistry than most of the other male/male couplings. And, if Brian is as sexually adventurous as they want us to believe he is, then he shouldn't have a problem having sex with a gal!

[jopolnachek]

I've always hated Lindsey..I think that its her obvious lust for Brian. I swear, if Brian even looked at her sideways she'd be all over his dick in a millesecond. Oddly enough,I love this characteristic of Micheal. Hmm.


And what is the appeal of Brian? I mean, yeah he can be attractive when he wants to be (and his hair is behaving itself), but why do these people put up with him? Why hasn't someone hauled off and straight molly-whopped him? I know I would have. After I slept with him of course.

[stickykeys]

I swear, he'd just whimper them to death in order to get them back together.

That's the one thing that gets me! Michael would be going everything in his power to get Mel and Lins back together! It would be a whole heck of a lot cheaper than this custody crap. And Lord knows M&B need the money to BUY A HOUSE! Which still irks me, blecch.

also

Took me like 3 eps before I knew it was Ibiza, and not Ibeetha. I thought Bryan was supposed to be in Alabama somewhere.

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StickyKeys said:

Took me like 3 eps before I knew it was Ibiza, and not Ibeetha. I thought Bryan was supposed to be in Alabama somewhere.

That's it! (I thought it was Belize, thanks StickyKeys.) My apologies to Brian Kinney. Who I have to call Brain Kinney because when we speak of Brian Kinney we must always say his first and last names because...well, I'm not quite sure!

[january]

This show also hates straight people, seeing as how no one interacts with them and when they do, it's negative because all heteros are homophobes.

Amen. I'll always remember the woman Michael worked with in the first season, the older one who tried to get him to go out with the younger girl (their name escape me)...I just remember she said something stupid like, "You do like girls, don't you?" and did the little limp-hand-flap. And she was making fun of gay customers, telling anti-gay jokes to the other workers, who of course were laughing uproariously. I don't know if I've just lived a sheltered life, but if someone acted like that at my place of work, they'd be in serious trouble. Nobody would be laughing, that's for sure.

The only non-evil straight people I can think of off the top of my head are Horvath, Daphne and Brian's assistant, what's-her-name.

[stickykeys]

I call her Connie because she's just like Will's assistant on Will&Grace, only more Showtime.

Whatever happened to Tracie?