Originally Posted by jIgG
Well, I watched every episode of the show, just b/cuz I wanted to see how they were representing us, and b/cuz I actually did like a few of the characters. I acknowledge that it was a total trashy soap, a guilty pleasure, and was probably intended to be so, so I tried to look past a lot of it, but it infuriated me more times than not in its first three years. It wasn't until they fired their writing staff and brought in a brand new one in the fourth season that I sat back and said, "Whoa! This is a different show altogether." They still had occasionally silly flights of fancy, and it was still pretty much a guilty pleasure, but I was much more drawn to the character archs and to the writing, which mellowed out and became more mature. I actually cried during the final episode. The show was groundbreaking; I can at least say that about it.
But Dante's Cove--which has a GREAT premise--is really just Queer as Folk with supernatural tendencies. Completely unoriginal, and the sex is filmed like one of those bad late night Cinemax soft core sex flicks. Sensationaslist and exploitative. And Noah's Ark is really just Sex & the City with black people. It's WRETCHEDLY acted and BADLY written. The guy playing the queeny character should be shot. He gives effeminate gay men a bad name. Some gay guys think I"m weird for being so into The L Word, but man, it's damn good TV. The women are all pretty, sure, but at least there is depth to their characters and they go through real pain and real drama and real emotions. Most gay entertainment barely even scratches the surface, and can hardly even qualify as "fluff." It's really just time for gay people to grow the fuck up and get out of the bars and stop defining our lives by how much sex we have. And I say this as one of L.A.'s biggest sluts.
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