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elspethdixon Aug. 29th, 2012 11:36 pm)
elspethdixon Aug. 29th, 2012 11:36 pm)Did Harold seriously just give Reese a key to his apartment for a birthday present?
... sometimes I really wonder how things like that manage to look so utterly subtext-free to the people who write them (presuming that the episode writer intended that action to be completely free of homoerotic subtext, which I'm guessing is a safe assumption).
I suppose maybe that wasn't Harold's apartment but a brand new empty apartment that he bought and gave to Reese for his birthday, but if that's the case, then he gave him a whole apartment.
Still less gay then Batman specially cross-breeding special Kryptonian roses to give to Superman as a birthday present, though. (Seanchai: "Gay sex is less gay then that.")
(Also, I really like how we've almost finished the first season and there has still not been an episode devoted to dead prostitutes and Detective Carter still doesn't have rape-as-backstory - thank you, PoI, for passing the law-enforcement-shows-that-don't-contain-the-things-I-hate-about-CSI test*)
*Why do so many female law enforcement characters turn out to have gone into law enforcement because of the tragic rape and/or abuse they've suffered? Ditto for female superheroes? It's like there's this trope that women aren't allowed to save people unless they've been victims themselves first.
... sometimes I really wonder how things like that manage to look so utterly subtext-free to the people who write them (presuming that the episode writer intended that action to be completely free of homoerotic subtext, which I'm guessing is a safe assumption).
I suppose maybe that wasn't Harold's apartment but a brand new empty apartment that he bought and gave to Reese for his birthday, but if that's the case, then he gave him a whole apartment.
Still less gay then Batman specially cross-breeding special Kryptonian roses to give to Superman as a birthday present, though. (Seanchai: "Gay sex is less gay then that.")
(Also, I really like how we've almost finished the first season and there has still not been an episode devoted to dead prostitutes and Detective Carter still doesn't have rape-as-backstory - thank you, PoI, for passing the law-enforcement-shows-that-don't-contain-the-things-I-hate-about-CSI test*)
*Why do so many female law enforcement characters turn out to have gone into law enforcement because of the tragic rape and/or abuse they've suffered? Ditto for female superheroes? It's like there's this trope that women aren't allowed to save people unless they've been victims themselves first.