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Apr. 13th, 2011 10:03 pmJust yesterday was catching up with my current TV-shows and a thought kept turning up in my mind that I want more LGBT presence in the shows I watch. Not necessarily more story-lines dealing with LGBT-issues, just... When a new person came up during an investigation (since the shows I watch are mostly procedurals) I kept wishing that he or she turned out to be gay, in the same non-consequential way they kept turning out to be straight. I mean, like having a boyfriend for an alibi instead of a girlfriend, that kind of thing. I don't want their being gay to do anything particular with the plot, I want it... just to be there?
The last show I remember doing anything like that is NCIS LA, sometime in the fall, when an arms dealer whose death they were investigating turned out to be living with his male partner. They mentioned it once and then it never came up again, and it strangely felt kind of cool because it wasn't treated like a big deal. But it's a rare thing these days.
In fact, any kind of LGBT-related content has been rare on crime dramas lately. And anyway the shows that do have gay characters use them to make some kind of a point. These characters don't simply exist, they have to serve a purpose. And that's not bad, exactly, but that's not what I want to see right now.
Strangely enough (and it's the other night's H50 episode that made me think about it... again), as much as I like bromance and same-sex UST, I don't exactly want to see any of them to lose the "b" and the "u". No more than I want any of my favorite heterosexual USTy couples turn into full-blown romances, that is, meaning I'd love them to ride off into sunset at the end of the series finale, but they don't have to get together while the show is still running (and sometimes they'd really better not). I bet now you can guess my favorite series finale and if you're thinking due South, than you're totally right.
There was supposed to some kind of point to this entry, but I keep getting distracted, so I'll leave it at that.
The last show I remember doing anything like that is NCIS LA, sometime in the fall, when an arms dealer whose death they were investigating turned out to be living with his male partner. They mentioned it once and then it never came up again, and it strangely felt kind of cool because it wasn't treated like a big deal. But it's a rare thing these days.
In fact, any kind of LGBT-related content has been rare on crime dramas lately. And anyway the shows that do have gay characters use them to make some kind of a point. These characters don't simply exist, they have to serve a purpose. And that's not bad, exactly, but that's not what I want to see right now.
Strangely enough (and it's the other night's H50 episode that made me think about it... again), as much as I like bromance and same-sex UST, I don't exactly want to see any of them to lose the "b" and the "u". No more than I want any of my favorite heterosexual USTy couples turn into full-blown romances, that is, meaning I'd love them to ride off into sunset at the end of the series finale, but they don't have to get together while the show is still running (and sometimes they'd really better not). I bet now you can guess my favorite series finale and if you're thinking due South, than you're totally right.
There was supposed to some kind of point to this entry, but I keep getting distracted, so I'll leave it at that.
