That's not her question--do they get to demonstrate comparable affection and sexual attraction to each other?
As far as I can tell, it certainly seems so. But I'm not watching it under a microscope, either.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Sep 19, 2013 8:30:07 am PDT #5730 of 30000
Because books.
Jesse - Sep 19, 2013 8:34:22 am PDT #5731 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
RIP, Happy Endings.
Yay Lee!
Yay Tom!
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2013 8:35:40 am PDT #5732 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They are supposed to be in-laws. They're fighting because they don't like each other.
Where is that on the poster? I'm not asking about the show, I'm asking about the marketing.
And, yeah, I do think it's creepy the parent/child pair is posed effectively indistinguishably from the couples unless you pay more attention than most people pay to signs along the road. But that's not the conversation my sister started.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2013 8:37:06 am PDT #5733 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lee! GREAT BOOBS.
I am officially in "fuck I have to pick a new dentist" land and "fuck, it's been so LONG" land. Props to you for being a grownup, Tom, and for having good results to boot.
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2013 8:42:38 am PDT #5734 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I went and had my boobs smooshed on the way to work, and I got the all clear for the third year in a row.
Right on!!!!
TJs has brought back the pumpkin macarons for the season.
Oh man, I love these so much. I was just there on Tuesday, and they had some pumpkin stuff (I snagged some pumpkin Greek yogurt), but I didn't see the macarons. Must get.
Hil R. - Sep 19, 2013 8:43:56 am PDT #5735 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
That's not her question--do they get to demonstrate comparable affection and sexual attraction to each other? That's the neutering she's frustrated by, and why she goes to South America (virtually) for more orientation-balanced entertainment.
None of the couples on Modern Family are really all that demonstrably affectionate, but from the episodes I've seen (my parents like the show, so I end up watching it whenever I'm visiting them), the gay couple shows about as much affection as the others. A quick kiss on the lips when one of them leaves or comes home, holding hands while sitting on the couch, stuff like that.
Hil R. - Sep 19, 2013 8:46:11 am PDT #5736 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The couple on The Fosters has been shown more sexually, though still not a ton, because it's still ultimately a show about the kids, and they're the parents.
Hil R. - Sep 19, 2013 8:46:12 am PDT #5737 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Dana - Sep 19, 2013 8:47:24 am PDT #5738 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My last day of work is September 30. My idiot manager's last day of work is also September 30. They're making her do people's annual reviews before she leaves. I declined the meeting, because I am leaving and there's no point in an annual review.
She just called my work number, and I missed the call. Odds that she wanted to know why I didn't attend the meeting?
Lee - Sep 19, 2013 8:57:29 am PDT #5739 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
There were complaints mid-season that they were being short-shrifted, but I think mid-season is too soon to decide, and I think they got similar levels of intimacy to all of the other couples on the show.
(Teen wolf) There was one M/M scene in the last few eps that I think was just as/more explicit than most of the het sex scenes on the show.
Though maybe I was just paying more attention.