"Queer as Folk" and "Six Feet Under": required watching for gays?

[strangepoetry]

dat media dribble cultures dribble pants alls wewe da sum ofs a insanes

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nature way more cause it not ans classified

Well, True and True.
Guess I can't argue with your points there.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

Well, True and True.
Guess I can't argue with your points there.

no argue
or point

but cultures make ans then point ta mirror what argue their point

ans da spawn suck da ways

cause no figure cause theys alls -----

but no worry technos ans their toys keep da -----

ans

close door so not let nature see da

maybe one day >this word ( cultures ) mean more then da letters

ans lot words made from dead bats ans spinnin loons

 

[strangepoetry]

no argue
or point

but cultures make ans then point ta mirror what argue their point

ans da spawn suck da ways

cause no figure cause theys alls -----

but no worry technos ans their toys keep da -----

ans

close door so not let nature see da

maybe one day >this word ( cultures ) mean more then da letters

ans lot words made from dead bats ans spinnin loons

But, Sloppy, you're busy typin away on your technos too. You're not outside appreciating nature.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

But, Sloppy, you're busy typin away on your technos too. You're not outside appreciating nature.

what ta type
but ta technos spawns
whats whys ans knots?
ans all da centurys past
alls dones da typins
yet da technos
continue their farts
ans da spawn
continue
suckin da air
long time stinkys
ans lost

anyway wheat got lot ta say
if only cultures long dead
grow ears eyes ans nose
ans not
head full of educated hay

ha

oh yeah world media long overdue fa spankin

 

[strangepoetry]

what ta type
but ta technos spawns
whats whys ans knots?
ans all da centurys past
alls dones da typins
yet da technos
continue their farts
ans da spawn
continue
suckin da air
long time stinkys
ans lost

anyway wheat got lot ta say
if only cultures long dead
grow ears eyes ans nose
ans not
head full of educated hay

ha

oh yeah world media long overdue fa spankin

I know. But I just don't see the point in constantly complaining about it. What's a tiny, quiet, web-logged complaint gonna do to change things?

 

[hungrybrownbear]

Nope! I don't think so at all, just watch what you want to watch... I don't think there's anything that anyone HAS to watch... I mean most TV shows that you watch you forget most of the details after a few years anyways...

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

I know. But I just don't see the point in constantly complaining about it. What's a tiny, quiet, web-logged complaint gonna do to change things?

now ya full circle such da wheel make of speices type alls a spent long ago make internet their life spent before their time before a born since many born dead of cultures long ago spent

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maybe fairys get surprise whens types figure out da sky

ans not keep walk around ans lookin down da hole

but maybe da borders of da spawn

too much fa taday

ans planet yawn

ans wait fa death ta change da super world hay

what right sniffy every day

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this not tv series

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United Nations will now cough
-COUGH-
now fa milk ans cookies
-YAY!!!!!!-

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world fairys

 

[terps420]

I've seen every episode of both these series and I have to say, Queer as Folk (the North American version) is catered to a niche market and you can definitely tell. The plot, characters, production and theme are all very gay and I mean that in the offensive way. It's a just a plain trashy TV show. There. I said it. It may have been groundbreaking but only because it was the only show to feature and be completely dedicated to all "homosexual characters". I watched it in my teens just to get a sense of how being a full-fledged adult gay male would be like, but I honestly hated what I saw. The things portrayed on that show made being gay something that nobody would ever want to be. That's just my opinion.

Six Feet Under has got to be one of the greatest TV series of all time though. Hands down. The whole premise of the show is so incredible. Imagine death surrounding your family's entire lives because you own a funeral home. Most people have to deal with death a mere handful of times, but it's your job to handle it every single day. How fucked up do you think you and your children would turn out?

 

[MountReel]

I've seen every episode of both these series and I have to say, Queer as Folk (the North American version) is catered to a niche market and you can definitely tell. The plot, characters, production and theme are all very gay and I mean that in the offensive way. It's a just a plain trashy TV show. There. I said it. It may have been groundbreaking but only because it was the only show to feature and be completely dedicated to all "homosexual characters". I watched it in my teens just to get a sense of how being a full-fledged adult gay male would be like, but I honestly hated what I saw. The things portrayed on that show made being gay something that nobody would ever want to be. That's just my opinion.

I think you took Queer as Folk a bit too literally and failed to realize the humor in some of it's portrayal. I think for the most part if you realize the show eventually at times becomes a self-reflexive satire, the show seems alot more approachable.

For example, the whole "Rage" comic-book is a direct satire of Brian Kinney's character and his relationship to the story. He himself has become such a sexual-fantasy character that in a sense he becomes the embodiment of a super hero. A fantasy in a hero-myth.

Indeed, the niche market is for gay people but more specifically for adults who are living that life. An exaggeration of the sexaulization of the male-homosexual world. I think however, if you can find what is satire and what is "message" the show still has alot of redeemable quality in it.

Six Feet Under has got to be one of the greatest TV series of all time though. Hands down. The whole premise of the show is so incredible. Imagine death surrounding your family's entire lives because you own a funeral home. Most people have to deal with death a mere handful of times, but it's your job to handle it every single day. How fucked up do you think you and your children would turn out?

I could agree with this in a sense. I mean I think Star Trek: TNG is the Greatest tv series of all time but I really do think Six Feet Under is great. I just watched the complete series and I cried at the end (I can say...I've only ever cried during Old Yellar, Marley and Me, and Six Feet Under). The approach of celebrating life through it's reflection of death is a theme I found absolutely fantastic.

 

[Yeehaw]

Everyone not just gays should watch SFU, the best show of all time imo; QAF is a decent show, not gonna recommend the entire series but I think gays should watch at least a few episodes.

 

[Ninja108]

I watched five minutes of QAF and decided that was enough.
As to SFU,fairly decent show but the boi and I still prefer our crime shows and national geographic shows.

 

[operafan]

I'm rewatching Six Feet Under and love it just as much as the first time I saw it.

I like QAF a great deal. I realize it isn't "great" in the same way that SFU is but I think its heart was in the right place and even though the story lines and the acting sometimes were fizzy the show covered many aspects of gay life, from the ridiculous to the sublime.