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 Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:45 pm
 I like d**k. I wanna get ******** by d**k. I wanna suck d**k. I like sucking d**k, and I'm good at it too. - Justin Running for five long seasons of techno music, sweaty gay sex scenes, and suspenseful drama, Queer as Folk managed to piss off not only “God-fearing America,” but its own subject matter: Gay America. With frequent drug use, sexual deviance, and other immoral behavior, Queer as Folk showed all the glamor and grief of the glorified gay lifestyle, complete with an amazing soundtrack and romance that brought tears and damp panties from female viewers all at once; from the cold-surfaced manwhore Brian, to the flamboyant Mississippi sweetheart Emmet, the cast boasted superb acting and devilish good looks, with characters so lovable that each segment drew the watcher in and held them captive with ease. Despite the controversy caused by the show - many claiming it exaggerated the night life of gays, others insisting its liberal use of drug/alcohol-oriented scenes was a bad influence - it has accumulated millions of fans, and therefore deserves its own thread for discussion. Topics of Discussion• Characters and pairings • Plots and storylines • Favorite episodes • Media response THIS THREAD CONTAINS UNMARKED SPOILERS!
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:46 pm
Kat and I purchased all of the seasons last year for about $1 a disc, but have only been able to watch episodes here and there due to time and lack of working remote. Tonight we will be watching the final episode of season five - and, Christ, it’s been a wild ride with this show! Its influences on our roleplaying are obvious (I will find any reason to have my characters making out in a club and doing drugs and having casual sex, lawl@self) and I will no doubt start rewatching it in the coming weeks.. I agree that its portrayal of “gay night life” is probably exaggerated, but at the same time, I certainly had no complaints. The drama (such as the s**t stirred up between Mel, Mikey, and Linds’ over Jenny Rebecca) was very well executed, and the romance never spoke anything but of human truth. The fifth season’s bombing had me in tears, and the fear and struggles felt by the characters over the constant fight to keep their rights renewed in me a truth I often forget: I am a second-class citizen. While marriage may seem like a small, insignificant step, it means the world to me - since I was a little girl, I’ve dreamed of white dresses and towering cakes. I don’t want special treatment for being a lesbian - I just want what everyone else has.
And if a show wants to provide that message with a plethora of steamy homosexual threesomes, marijuana smoking, and crazy nights at a glitter-draped night club to make it easier to swallow, I say let ’em alone, they did a damn good job.
EDIT: Ironically, I disliked the lesbian characters until Linds’ cheated on Mel with a man. I was able to identify with her more because of it. XP I’m still a little iffy on Mel, but her friendship with Ted makes her a little easier to tolerate.
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 3:22 pm
I would really, really enjoy sitting down and re-watching the series.
I agree with disliking the lesbian characters at first too. They felt so fake and flat. Like they're the perfect showcase of either a soft spoken, talented rich woman or the uptight, bitchy uber independent lawyer/doctor/detective.
I mean, I love cliches, but it was irritating to watch them because they sort of just felt like the sitcom-y, mismatched buddies that get into shenanigans. I think Lindsey cheating made her easier to relate to because she did ******** up majorly.
Mel got too bitchy after that for me to really like her. And when she and MIkey have a kid and she freaks over the whole custody thing and tries to use the baby as a weapon to get her way I just.... I mean, yeah it's a normal human thing that people do, but it just grossed me out. I hated how she treated Linds too, because I know how it feels to ******** up like that, open relationship or not, you feel like dirty garbage that someone puked on and with the person you love hurt and angry enough to kick said garbage it just....
Ramble.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:58 pm
Snape Kitty I know how it feels to ******** up like that, open relationship or not, you feel like dirty garbage that someone puked on and with the person you love hurt and angry enough to kick said garbage it just....
*squints*
Anyway, yeah, we are terrible lesbians, loving all over the flawed fags but hating on Mel for being a c**t xd We have been conditioned by society to hold women to harsher criticism. Yeah. Blame society!
I haaaated the Mel-Mikey baby plotline. It just seemed like a mess from the start. And they saw with Brian how complicated having your gay male friend father the child became -- Brian wasn't daddy material, and Mikey certainly wasn't either. He felt more like a nagging older brother to Hunter, even. Ben was the father (and the voice of reason) in raising Hunter. Sure, baby rearing =/= teenager rearing (hurrr) but hell.
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