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"Some obligations can't be passed on": Watching A Place To Call Home
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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 245154" data-attributes="member: 22"><p>That's so interesting. I've finished Season 3 and still hadn't really registered their absences were permanent!</p><p></p><p>Again, I hadn't clocked this consciously, but it's just what happened with <em>Falcon Crest</em> -- by Season 3, there wasn't a Hispanic character in sight -- and, more gradually, <em>EastEnders</em> which started off as a truly multi-ethnic soap, yet by the (admittedly great) '90s was almost exclusively caucasian.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, James seems to attract these futuristic gay men who have time travelled from the 21st century to tell him everything's cool and the most important thing is you to be true to yourself, bla bla bla. Both Dr Henry and the fella he kissed in the barn in Season 1 have the same ability to effortlessly unnerve James the way Luke Fuller did Steven Carrington when he was married to Claudia on Dynasty, just by their smouldering well-adjustedness. I guess the demands of soap, or soapish drama, require this kind of archetype to move things along, but how interesting it might have been if James had instead encountered someone as inhibited and ill-adjusted as himself whose gaydar didn't automatically ping at first sight? What would have happened? Maybe nothing, and I guess AP2CH is about stuff <em>happening</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James from London, post: 245154, member: 22"] That's so interesting. I've finished Season 3 and still hadn't really registered their absences were permanent! Again, I hadn't clocked this consciously, but it's just what happened with [I]Falcon Crest[/I] -- by Season 3, there wasn't a Hispanic character in sight -- and, more gradually, [I]EastEnders[/I] which started off as a truly multi-ethnic soap, yet by the (admittedly great) '90s was almost exclusively caucasian. Yeah, James seems to attract these futuristic gay men who have time travelled from the 21st century to tell him everything's cool and the most important thing is you to be true to yourself, bla bla bla. Both Dr Henry and the fella he kissed in the barn in Season 1 have the same ability to effortlessly unnerve James the way Luke Fuller did Steven Carrington when he was married to Claudia on Dynasty, just by their smouldering well-adjustedness. I guess the demands of soap, or soapish drama, require this kind of archetype to move things along, but how interesting it might have been if James had instead encountered someone as inhibited and ill-adjusted as himself whose gaydar didn't automatically ping at first sight? What would have happened? Maybe nothing, and I guess AP2CH is about stuff [I]happening[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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