RTD is easy to explain. He is and always has been an APOLOGETIC gay man. Uhm, Hello? Have we looked at his gay characters? The UK version of Queer as Folk, screw everything that moves and string along the unrequited love of your best friend to keep him under thumb. I can't remember the other show where he made the gay man fall in love with a woman. Hell, even the show where he had Gareth David-Lloyd play the supposed gay "Yanto Jones" he had him abandon the boy for a group of girls.
Once upon a time I worked as a script development coordinator for a little show produced by Mutant Enemy, as the only gay person (ahem, MALE at that) on the staff, even I did a better job of making sure the lesbian relationship had an emotional foundation.
RTD uses gay characters/relationships for shock value; but consistently falls back on the "real love is man/woman". But some of the problem can be placed on Chibnall's piss-poor job as Show Runner (the trade term for the producer that actually oversees the storyline development and production.) Little birdies have told me that writers for TW do not receive character bios or undercurrent themes so its not surprising that there's a distinct lack of consistency in character behavior.
I hope when Chibnall leaves for Law & Order London (aka boring formulaic police drama) that RTD and Jules find someone willing to invest real time in developing these characters and make real use of the talent that they are wasting.
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Once upon a time I worked as a script development coordinator for a little show produced by Mutant Enemy, as the only gay person (ahem, MALE at that) on the staff, even I did a better job of making sure the lesbian relationship had an emotional foundation.
RTD uses gay characters/relationships for shock value; but consistently falls back on the "real love is man/woman". But some of the problem can be placed on Chibnall's piss-poor job as Show Runner (the trade term for the producer that actually oversees the storyline development and production.) Little birdies have told me that writers for TW do not receive character bios or undercurrent themes so its not surprising that there's a distinct lack of consistency in character behavior.
I hope when Chibnall leaves for Law & Order London (aka boring formulaic police drama) that RTD and Jules find someone willing to invest real time in developing these characters and make real use of the talent that they are wasting.
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