addedentry last week) on the grounds that I'd be watching it purely in the hopes of seeing some lesbian action (a letter along the same lines in next week's Radio Times helped with that opinion - which brings me to another letter quite rightly bemoaning the fact the ITV was deluged with complaints because The Bill contained a gay kiss before the watershed - wheras all the drugs, violence and plenty of straight action is absolutely fine and dandy. I despair).The world, in it's usual way, conspired to ensure that I got some lesbian
The show in question being the latest episode in my rewatching of Buffy beyond which no-one with half a brain can deny what's going on (although the homophobe brigade apparently managed to cling to their "she had a boyfriend for a season and a half so she can't be gay" beliefs for another 2/3 episodes before giving up and starting with the hate mail). It's been subtly built up over the last dozen or so episodes, but this is where we get the first real "awwwww" scene:
A: (explaining why she hasn't introduced B to her friends) ...I just sort of like having something that's just, you know, mine...
(more dialog, as A is leaving:)
B:I am, you know.
A:What?
B:Yours.
And expressions speak louder than words.
And so begins my all-time favourite TV relationship which over the next two seasons is the driving force behind many of the best scenes on the show (both highs and lows). Plus they resist the temptaion to overplay it - maybe 3-4 on-screen kisses in the whole two years compared to plenty of snogging and PG-rated sex for the straight relationships.
Wifeswapping
October 17 2002, 05:53:56 UTC 18 years ago
A sharp commentator observed 'Ah, the old story: boy meets girl...' before the rest was lost in hysterics.