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Homosexual conspiracy!
Dec. 6th, 2008 10:08 pmI have uncovered a homosexual conspiracy.
Merlin - a prime-time BBC TV drama in the Doctor Who timeslot - was created by a group of four men, all of whose names begin with J.
Johnny Capps, Julian Jones, Jake Michie, and Julian Murphy.
Yes, two men called Julian. But this is not the extent of the homosexual conspiracy!
All four men previously worked on Hex, a sort of British Buffy with a lesbian ghost in a country boarding school. And two of them worked on Sugar Rush, a story of queer teenage hi-jinx in Brighton.
So all four creators of Merlin come to us from overtly queer drama, in much the same way as Russell T Davies came to Doctor Who from Queer as Folk. RTD gave us Captain Jack kissing the Doctor - an unprecedented queering of a British prime time family viewing - what will the Js give us?
(Yes, probably nothing. Almost certainly nothing. And I know that the author is dead and all. But isn't it great to know that they mean it?)
Merlin - a prime-time BBC TV drama in the Doctor Who timeslot - was created by a group of four men, all of whose names begin with J.
Johnny Capps, Julian Jones, Jake Michie, and Julian Murphy.
Yes, two men called Julian. But this is not the extent of the homosexual conspiracy!
All four men previously worked on Hex, a sort of British Buffy with a lesbian ghost in a country boarding school. And two of them worked on Sugar Rush, a story of queer teenage hi-jinx in Brighton.
So all four creators of Merlin come to us from overtly queer drama, in much the same way as Russell T Davies came to Doctor Who from Queer as Folk. RTD gave us Captain Jack kissing the Doctor - an unprecedented queering of a British prime time family viewing - what will the Js give us?
(Yes, probably nothing. Almost certainly nothing. And I know that the author is dead and all. But isn't it great to know that they mean it?)
