If there's a season two of the new Queer as Folk, I won't be watching it.
Let's do a little character breakdown to give you an idea of why I am disappointed. I'm going to base it off the 1999 US version instead of the 1999 UK version.
First, I didn't have an issue with the modernization, until the very end when they completely butchered the main character.
The main character is Brodie (2022) / Brian (1999), and the end happens to involve the butchering of another character who is Ruthie (2022) / Lindsay (1999). With the modernization, the Brodie character is a man of color while Ruthie is a male to female trans woman. Instead of there being a Michael character that Brodie had a friendship with growing up, it's as though the newer version combined both Michael and Lindsay into Ruthie. I can overlook that, somewhat. What upsets me the most is the very end, the very last scene, that makes it seem as though a gay man would profess his sexual love for a woman, and I am evolved enough to consider Ruthie a woman. I do not consider it a form of evolution or even realistic that a gay man would seek a sexual relationship with a woman, however. Certainly, sexuality is fluid, but this ending is just ridiculous because it simply doesn't represent the gay community in general.
Let's do a little character breakdown to give you an idea of why I am disappointed. I'm going to base it off the 1999 US version instead of the 1999 UK version.
First, I didn't have an issue with the modernization, until the very end when they completely butchered the main character.
The main character is Brodie (2022) / Brian (1999), and the end happens to involve the butchering of another character who is Ruthie (2022) / Lindsay (1999). With the modernization, the Brodie character is a man of color while Ruthie is a male to female trans woman. Instead of there being a Michael character that Brodie had a friendship with growing up, it's as though the newer version combined both Michael and Lindsay into Ruthie. I can overlook that, somewhat. What upsets me the most is the very end, the very last scene, that makes it seem as though a gay man would profess his sexual love for a woman, and I am evolved enough to consider Ruthie a woman. I do not consider it a form of evolution or even realistic that a gay man would seek a sexual relationship with a woman, however. Certainly, sexuality is fluid, but this ending is just ridiculous because it simply doesn't represent the gay community in general.
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~ Erin Hunter
~ Erin Hunter
