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Feb. 19th, 2008 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneOh, Torchwood.
It doesn't matter if you're good or not, you know (although I've been enjoying you a lot more this season). Because, at the end of the day, you're a sci-fi show that happens to be queer. Not a gimmickily queer show (Will & Grace, Queer as Folk) .. not a normal, straight show that happens to have some queer in it (sorry, Buffy, but this is you) .. a show where the characters, incidentally, reflect the sexuality that I see around me every day. Almost everyone is bi to some degree. And it's incidental. And yes it's shit to live in a world where that's a big fucking deal; but it is a big fucking deal. To not feel excluded, as a given, from the worldviews of all my fandoms (what else have I enjoyed recently - House? Heroes? Lord of the fucking Rings?).
So here's to Torchwood, to bi-visibility, and to the future, where posts like this will seem simultaneously quaint and horrific.
It doesn't matter if you're good or not, you know (although I've been enjoying you a lot more this season). Because, at the end of the day, you're a sci-fi show that happens to be queer. Not a gimmickily queer show (Will & Grace, Queer as Folk) .. not a normal, straight show that happens to have some queer in it (sorry, Buffy, but this is you) .. a show where the characters, incidentally, reflect the sexuality that I see around me every day. Almost everyone is bi to some degree. And it's incidental. And yes it's shit to live in a world where that's a big fucking deal; but it is a big fucking deal. To not feel excluded, as a given, from the worldviews of all my fandoms (what else have I enjoyed recently - House? Heroes? Lord of the fucking Rings?).
So here's to Torchwood, to bi-visibility, and to the future, where posts like this will seem simultaneously quaint and horrific.