Am I being over sensitive?

[galadriel1010]

'Miracle Gay'. Not big and not clever. More immature and damaging, actually. If I thought it were a comment on how over the top the gay jokes are and the fact that it comes across as vaguely homophobic, then maybe. But I really don't get that feeling, I think it's more of the 'it's so gay' that's hurting young LGBT people so badly.

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[moonfirefic.livejournal.com]

Jack Kenny who executive produces Warehouse 13 along with David Simkins is also openly gay and even though there is a lot of UST between two of the female characters and an openly gay character joined the cast this season, he has been adamant that orientation is just a part of who they are and not the character's primary focus.

I think that might be one of the reasons that even when the plots are goofy, I still watch it. Torchwood used to approach the issue in a similar fashion, with a side bar of ribbing now and then that was always playfully rude, allowing the characters to be who they are and if they like to kiss boys, girls, both, or what have you - who cares?

The bits of Miracle Day that I have watched seem to had lost their way by defining who someone is, purely based on who they sleep with, but then again, I haven't been too keen on how Jack is written in it anyway, he seems hollow, almost caricature-like.

I tried to give it a go, I really did, but the bi-polar attitude of the writing towards so many issues and the whole ovens in the camps (I am not even going to get started again on that one) just put me off. Throwing random sex scenes in the middle of it to try and "bring back the audience" really isn't helping matters.

As to the poster - *shrug* I think it was meant as a juvenile bit of silliness and no real harm intended. Who knows? Maybe GDL has a secret love of Rocky Horror and was bored.

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

I'm really not sure what they're doing or where they went wrong. The characters should have been really interesting, but it's like they stuck the labels on without exploring where the labels came from. They're stick figures, and even Jack is paper thin now.