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

[silveradept]

At least according to Word of God (or Word of St. Peter), Torchwood is supposed to be that program, although the queerness of characters is not necessarily demonstrated consistently on the screen.

[kindkit]

I have spectacularly mixed feelings about Torchwood. For me it was one of those shows where I often wanted to shout at the screen "Yes I wanted queer representation, BUT NOT LIKE THAT!"

There was a lot of Torchwood that I liked/loved, but a lot that really frustrated me, too. (I liked S1 a lot more than S2, and I adored--with a couple of major exceptions--Children of Earth, so it's possible that I'm just weird in some ways.)

I do think that Torchwood probably opened a lot of doors for queer representation, so I'll give it at least that much credit!

[silveradept]

It did do that. I have mixed feelings about Torchwood as well, and am worried a re-watch might make it a lot less enjoyable than it was when I didn't know as much as I do now. But I will at least stop before Miracle Day, because that was not good at all.

[kindkit]

I never did watch Miracle Day; everything I heard about it made it sound terrible. The goal of it seemed to be to strip Torchwood of everything that made it unique and turn it into a generic American action/sci-fi show.

[silveradept]

That's an excellent summation of Miracle Day. Not that the actors weren't doing their very best with the crap they had, but they wasted Gwen in it, they made Jack out to be worse than usual, and it was just bad. Just bad.