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where would the characters be now

posted 3 years ago by ADBruno1985 (3506)
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If they did a special reunion episode 20 years later.

Michael and Ben are still together, or Ben is recently dead for the sake of drama and Michael navigates widowerhood. Hunter is still involved and successful somewhere.

Brian now lives in Manhattan and is very successful. Justin is doing movies in LA. They maintained a not officially together or broken up status, like always, but haven't seen each other or even spoken in a few years now. Neither is serious about anyone. In his quest to be like Brian, Justin is the father of a kid he had with Daphne.

Melanie and Lindsay still live in Canada and are happy and occasionally visit.

Sharon is happily with Horvath.

Emmett is super-successful in something random and is with Drew.

Ted is retired and with Blake.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (12144) 2 years ago

I'd prefer not to see a proliferation of fake breederism with Justin and a child. No more children please. Most of us don't have them or want them.

I always liked Brian's cynicism. He never married Justin because he never wanted himself liable to divorce and sharing half his assets. Smart man. Strong queer. Yeah he's successful.

I'd prefer to see Justin as a faded queen who always used more successful men and is now paying the price as he ages and he has nothing to fall back on.

Basically I want a morality play where strong gay men succeed and the weak ones who sold their ass fail.

[–] ADBruno1985 (3506) 2 years ago

Oh wholeheartedly agree. I have a nephew and I love him, but I don't have or want children. Some of us do, sure, but in media it often feels forced for the sake of assimilation.

Nice outlook though. So you're a typical top ;)

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (12144) 2 years ago

I'm glad a gay brother gets the point about assimilation. I'm kinda like if we were meant to have children there'd be buttbabies. 🤣 But I loved "Queer As Folk" and am anxious to see the new one.

[–] ADBruno1985 (3506) 2 years ago

That's a dangerous line of thought though, because *who* *means* us to or not? Oh yeah God. And then people will be all "If you were meant to be together God would have made you opposite genders" or something.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (12144) 2 years ago

Well I don't give a rat's ass what straight people think.

I'm a queer supremacist and a queer nationalist. I believe just as heterosexuality has the benefit of being reproductive, homosexuality DOES NOT. That's a plus and we use that to our advantage.

I do not like the idea that we are being compelled by society to get on the heteronormative treadmill. I'm against the nuclear family. And there are other types of alternative family. I love my family as much as any straight person or any married gay fool who wants to babysit and play house.

The nature of our sexuality is that we do not reproduce more millions to add to the earth's overpopulation.

Be proud you're queer and not part of rutting majority.

[–] ADBruno1985 (3506) 2 years ago

Haha, don't presume to know my mind. I'm out and proud. My mindset is more along the lines of "I don't want to feed into their bullshit because then they just use it to create more bullshit that I don't have time for"

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (12144) 2 years ago

Bruno! I love me some Bruno. 🤣

Honestly, I wasn't trying to be presumptuous. Sorry if I got preachy. But I approach this from a very political angle. I'm just explaining that I'm thinking long term. Do we really want to end up like straight people? I don't. Lets try to preserve our freedom and not sign onto all their bullshit.

We don't have to be married and raise a bunch of squalling brats. I'd just hire a nanny. 🤣

[–] Popcorngal (4818) 2 years ago

The earth has been overpopulated for years, it will survive. It a person does not want to have kids, regardless of sexual identity, that's their choice, but stop blaming overpopulation.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (12144) 2 years ago

Meh, there are enough children in foster homes who need homes. Before creating new ones, take care of the ones who are already here.

[–] Popcorngal (4818) 2 years ago

I think most people want their own. But adopting foster kids is always a sweet thing to do.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (12144) 2 years ago

My point here is that if you're a heterosexual, and if children are an obvious product of heterosexual intercourse, then yeah, if you're a stable straight couple, a mom and a dad, then have babies!

I just have no idea why gay men are contriving to produce children.

[–] RockAway (1601) 2 years ago

I never took Brian’s attitude towards marriage to be that he didn’t want to marry because he didn’t want to split his assets, in fact, did you even watch the show? That’s antithetical to his reasoning. He never showed any discomfort sharing his wealth at all.

What have you got against Justin? Faded Queen? He was very intelligent character and he was practical about getting older, he didn’t seem hung up on it like Brian was. He became a very strong gay man as the show went on, he turned into the most well balanced of them all.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (12144) 2 years ago

I'm Gameboy from the IMDb Soapbox. Are you who I think you are? 🙂

You're right. Brian was against marriage on principle, like me. I merely threw that out there because it is a good reason not to marry.

I was biased against Justin from the beginning. I've seen too much of the gay community's adulation for the young blond-haired blue-eyed male. I believe he was on the show as queerbait. Typecasting. So yeah, I never did like the character. I assumed he was a fake.

I'm just saying what I would like to see. QAF could explore some of the issues of an attractive man growing older and losing that shallow cache we gay males all know exists.

[–] RockAway (1601) 2 years ago

Nah, don’t think you know me, I didn’t spend much time on the IMDb site.

I didn’t like Justin at the beginning, he was annoying and childishly bratty. I honestly think we aren’t meant to like him at first but he grew and changed as a person over time into a great character. I enjoyed watching his development a lot maybe because we are the same age so it helped having his perspective on things. I also went to art school and had a similar head injury that changed my life. I thought that the actor did a great job of developing him as a character who was constantly learning what it was to be queer in America.

I would definitely like to see the older aging angle. I think it’s really important and the older generation deserves a lot of respect and honor for paving the way for us.

[–] RockAway (1601) 2 years ago

I like the conclusions you’ve come to, you’ve kept the storyline accurate to the characters. I would be glad to see Debbie and Horvath still together and it would be good material to have the added drama of taking care of aging parents. I’d much prefer if they would bring the same characters back because I think featuring generations of queer people is important, ( also I love the original cast and would frankly rather see them than a completely new cast.

My only complaint with both the show and your well thought out futures is Hunter. I could never stand that little bastard. I have so much unreasonable hatred for that character, I don’t want to picture him at all. He almost ruined the show for me and I LOVE the series.

[–] ADBruno1985 (3506) 2 years ago

I feel the same, Hunter was so irritating. I get that he went through a lot but come on.

[–] RockAway (1601) 2 years ago

I never understood how the character was so seemingly proud of being a prostitute and selling himself and then when it was revealed that his mother got him into it he was so dramatic . . . like he wasn’t doing it to himself on his own! I mean obviously that’s a traumatic experience, no question but he pimped ‘himself’ out and wasn’t the least bit ashamed of it and all of the sudden he was so aghast.

He was always bitching about everything, how hard it was at school. Justin had it way harder for fuck sake, guys torched his locker, he was harassed by teachers, he got beat up, nearly murdered. Then he was whining and bitching about doing the same job that Justin did at the diner like it was the worst thing in the world.

I could have been the actor that annoyed me more than the character though, his line delivery was terrible. He wasn’t sympathetic, if it had been played out more sympathetically I would have really liked the character. He was just a selfish, whiny, asshole.