dear universe

[kindkit]

Please send me a show in which everyone is lesbian, gay, or bi. Not a show like Queer As Folk or The L Word that's specifically about a queer community, but an ordinary show that's about space adventures or pirates or demon fighters or cops or lawyers or boring white suburban middle-class couples. Just, all of them are LGB (some of them could be T, too, because that would be awesome, but they're also L, or G, or B). No straight people. Even the incidental characters with just one or two lines have to be wearing a Pride button or something.

A show like that might, just possibly, begin to make up for all the shows (even now) without any queer characters, or the ones where the queer characters are speedily killed off, or the ones that queerbait and then say "Nope, these characters are straight," or the ones that have an unspoken quota system for queer characters so there can only be so many.

I eagerly await your response in this matter.

Sincerely,

Me

Comments

[kindkit]

I think we gave up at about the same point. I don't have a very high tolerance for stories that are all about bad people doing bad things, and any good people being unrelentingly victimized. (This is why I have never watched Game of Thrones.) And it seemed like Black Sails was going to be that. But apparently not.

Still, I would pay so much money to have The Exorcist's arc be "gay priest and his bisexual priest boyfriend battle demons and also the institutionalized homophobia of the Catholic Church." Because it's a show I already love, and characters I've already grown excessively attached to. I do plan to try Black Sails again, but it feels like work.

[rydra_wong]

I do plan to try Black Sails again, but it feels like work.

Yeah, it's ... *sighs*. It's tricky for me because I really want to sell it to people because it blew my mind and because there's so much in it that's precious and wonderful. But there's this hurdle of the early eps you have to get through first.

So it's asking people to make this significant investment of time and mental energy before they can get a sense of whether they like the show and it's worthwhile for them (or, in fact, to ignore the sense they already have that they don't and it isn't). Which is work, totally. And I don't want to downplay that.