Well, over in my comments section we got into a little discussion comparing Queer as F!lk's Br!an and Just!n (I'm doing this to thwart Technorati, that's how I got in trouble last time) and Xena and Gabrielle. Setting aside the grossly unfair accusations of closet romanticism that got leveled at me by people who shall remain nameless, and not meaning to rehash ground covered in the previous discussion (which you can read here if you have absolutely no life whatsoever, and nothing at all else to do, and any sort of remote interest in the topic), I want to point out that however great the sex was between Br!an and Just!n, and however pretty they are together (and they are), and however great the music was in that show, and however rich and well-dressed Br!an was, and no matter how great his car might have been, and blah blah blah, nothing can ever compare with the Greatest Love Story Ever Told.
Not to mention that it did not take Xena five years and a bomb to tell Gabrielle she loved her. So there.
How did I miss this whole Xena thing? Maybe they will put it all out on DVDs sometime ;)
Posted by: KT | 20 April 2006 at 11:49 PM
Tell me you're joking.
Posted by: Christie Keith | 21 April 2006 at 12:16 AM
KT, KT, KT,
tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.
They ARE out on DVD. Netflix has them. :) Take a week off work, grab some popcorn in one hand, Christie's soul sister in the other, and have a rockin' good time. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and everything in between.
Travis
Posted by: Travis | 21 April 2006 at 12:17 AM
You win, you win!
The lesbians had love without (overt) sex, the gay men had sex without (stated) love.
And I put Xena on my Netflix queue. This could be trouble.
Posted by: ooogyfan2 | 21 April 2006 at 12:47 AM
Ummm. Not joking ;) Limited capacity for television. At the time I was oogling Gillian Anderson's Scully. And when I got around to a few syndicated eps of Xena, I must have hit on some bad examples ... either the mythology was so far off that it irritated me, or Gabrielle was flirting with some guy. Lost interest ...
I can see that finally I will have to get a Netflix account! I like Travis' idea ;)
Posted by: KT | 21 April 2006 at 08:27 AM
Btw, as I was driving into the office ... I remembered two old AOL screen names from when Christie and I first knew each other ... Xena and Foxx ... should sort of give a good clue of where we were, respectively ;)
Though the scarier part of that, to me, is that it was a decade ago ...
Posted by: KT | 21 April 2006 at 12:05 PM
Sounds like time to try the State of Denial again. A DECADE? Jeesh.
Posted by: Christie Keith | 21 April 2006 at 01:39 PM
How long DID it take Xena to tell Gabrielle that she loved her?
Posted by: Sighthound Ma | 21 April 2006 at 02:16 PM
Xena told Gabrielle in the third season, although Gabrielle had said it to her before that, yet another parallel with B and J - J said it in the FIRST season, though, but that's because he was young and stupid. It took him a while to figure his man out.
Sighthound Ma, who ARE you? You don't include your email address and it's driving me nuts trying to figure out your secret identity. Email me if you don't want to post it here. Or if you prefer to remain mysterious and anonymous, I can live with that. Sort of.
Posted by: Christie Keith | 21 April 2006 at 02:21 PM
:::: ... either the mythology was so far off that it irritated me, or Gabrielle was flirting with some guy. Lost interest ... ::::
The mythology wasn't "far off," it was so far off the charts it may as well have been the mythology of another planet. Same with history: This show had Julius Ceasar and Alexander the Great as contemporaries.
We called it the Xenaverse and just accepted it and went on.
As to Gaby flirting with men, yes, but the GOOD thing is that every time Gabrielle was interested in a man, he died. It was a running joke on the show.
Someone did comment to Xena once that "Ceasar only dreams you could look at him like that," referring to how she was looking at Gabrielle. Sigh.
OH GOD, I really AM a closet romantic! Only in the Xenaverse.
Posted by: Christie Keith | 21 April 2006 at 02:24 PM
State of Denial. I could live there, I think ;)
ROFLMAO ... you are just now discovering that you are a closet romantic? Ummm ... girlfriend ... you are, and there is no such thing as "only in the Xenaverse"!
I guess I have to give Xena a try afterall ...
Posted by: KT | 21 April 2006 at 02:39 PM
I'll tell you my identity in five years after a bomb.
Or maybe it will take only three. We'll see.
Posted by: Sighthound Ma | 21 April 2006 at 03:29 PM
That's just mean.
Posted by: Christie Keith | 21 April 2006 at 06:04 PM