okay, I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I really liked Vex and Mark together, ever since Vex had that little ... fantasy I've always thought they'd end up together. Although a kiss or something would of been more statisfying... I am glad that was what happened. I also think it would be hilarious to see Dyson's reaction towards all this!! What do you think about them as a couple?
shareFirst and foremost, Dyson's reaction would be legendary.
2nd, I don't know if Mark even likes Vex in that way, or If Vex does for Mark either, I know the illusion went to work on Vex, but I thought Vex was more enamored by the fact that he could feel for someone in that way, that he's not so evil after all, and that the ability to love is in there, then full on trying to pursue Mark.
Unfortunately Lost Girl likes putting important storylines OFF SCREEN. My guess why they did not pursue Vex and Marks story on screen is because it was between 2 males. No matter how "sexpositive" LG has claimed, they have shyied away from boy on boy relationships and sex screens except for the "fantasy" sceen. The obvious point is none of the MAIN MALE characters ( Dyson, Trick or Hale) have been show to be interested in men for all the seasons they were on the show. Only the last season do they make a occasional character (Vex) show a queer side of him. And they paired him with one of the boringest characters (Mark) ever on the show.
I love LG. But their idea of sex positive is to make all the female characters, sexually fluid and all the males straight straight straight.
none of the MAIN MALE characters ( Dyson, Trick or Hale) have been show to be interested in men for all the seasons they were on the show.
Seriously ?? I know all about those gay male one time characters on the show. You're not the only one who has watched this show closely.
As I said before, if they wanted to make LG truely SEX POISTIVE like they claimed, there would have be a male MAIN character be bisexual or gay. The show has never said it was ONLY female sex positive.
Let's list the reoccurring characters shall we ..
Bo - Bi
Tamsin - Bi
Evony - Bi
Kenzi - Straight but has kissed Lauren in fantasy sequence and Bo 3 times
Lauren - Gay
Dyson - Straight
Trick - Straight
Hale - Straight
Vex - Originally shown Straight (his sexual preferences were about women) throughout most of LG till the final season and now seems Bi. His occasional cross dressing does not indicate his sexuality.
Mark - Shown to be straight throughout season 5 but at the end of the season shown to possibly be Bi. The fantasy Vex had of Mark giving him a bj wasn't indicative of Mark's sexuality, just of Vex's.
The show has never said it was ONLY female sex positive.
The central theme of Lost Girl is female empowerment. Lost Girl is foremost about women: their relationships, their strengths, their failures -- and portraying them as enjoying sex without hesitance, or a hint of shame or guilt about it.
Many reviews that state the show is sex positive but they completely ignore out the fact there are NO main male characters who are queer. Again, if the show presents that most women are sexually fluid and no men are then it is far from sex positive. It borders on being a typical frat boy fantasy. Much like Anna Silks first reaction to reading a LG script.
You use the byline of Nobody on other forums ... don't you ??
Why should there be a main "queer" male character? Where is it mandatory that Gay males or "queer" males must be included in the list of prominent characters for a series to be sex positive?
Lost Girl is not a series about lesbians, bisexuals, heterosexuals, and gays.
Lost Girl is about Bo finding herself and determining her own life. The predominant sexuality in the series relates to Bo. She has sex with females and heterosexual males. She falls in love with a lesbian. Whatever other sexuality you see in Lost Girl is incidental and secondary to Bo's personal story -- it's filler material.
A "typical frat boy fantasy" would have included a male in the scenes where two women have sex. Because your average sophomoric male can't accept that he's not invited to every party and that sex can't really happen unless there's a penis waiting in the wings.
Quit whining about how Gay males didn't get enough share of the Lost Girl pie. Gay males get enough share of other television pies. You can't go to an LGBT film festival without it being an overload of films about Gay males. Male characters in general dominate television and film.
You didn't get enough boy-on-boy in Lost Girl? Too bad, so sad. Go watch "Looking".
(P.S. Forgot to add to list of Gay male play in Lost Girl: episode 3x05 (Faes Wide Shut): two men inside sex club room making out.)
(P.P.S. Since you can't upload images to IMDb's forums, a link will have to do. For those who haven't followed Lost Girl closely, it was included in a scholarly conference about genres, it was also a special panel at the 2014 Toronto LGBT Film Festival:
https://41.media.tumblr.com/bf663ea8c6c02c5a8e6f795c9eb793b4/tumblr_nxb25yu9zM1rjac1mo1_1280.png
If the print is too small for you to read, description reads: "….discussion focused around creating, writing and bringing to life strong, engaging (and sexy) bisexual and lesbian characters within the genre of science fiction." The people behind the festival got the clue.)
So you are that chick NOBODY. Thought so. You can't leave comments without insulting people.
shareBesides intentionally and stubbornly refusing to spell the word "Fae" according to how Lost Girl itself spells it (and you've spelled it correctly in at least two or three comments, which proves you're just being a hardhead about it) -- you've got a bad habit of misquoting and screwing up information.
Contrary to your statement
It borders on being a typical frat boy fantasy. Much like Anna Silks first reaction to reading a LG script.
At first, I just got what the show was about and it said, “Bo is a bisexual Succubus who needs sex to heal.” I was like, “Oh, my god!,” and my husband was like, “Was this written by a fratboy? What is this?”
http://collider.com/anna-silk-lost-girl-interview/
The show started out sexpositive, but at a certain point that morphed into old-school pandering to the straight teenage boy demographic that sci fi thinks is the only one out there. Hot! Lesbian! Sexxxeh! Girl-on-Girl! action is the oldest - and least sexpositive fantasy out there. The minute Bo/Lauren's or Bo/Tamsin's scenes are not about their pleasure and their empowerment, they lose all their empowerment. And that happens precisely because there's no equivalent offered to other viewers. The show basically said: "Hey all you female viewers and gay viewers: *beep* right off, we're not talking to you any more."
At a certain point, the complete avoidance of sexual fluidity by any of the main male characters became a huge elephant in the living room. If the Fae are really so different in their views of love, then why do only the Hawt Chicks ever go there?
Newsflash: straight women find gay sex scenes a turn-on. The only reason not to include some sexual fluidity among the men is the producers' fear that the straight boys won't tolerate it. As if we were still in 1985.
And speaking of 1985: complaints about "how come does every show have to have gay men in it?" sound an awful lot like one demographic complaining that it no longer controls the whole narrative anymore. Boo hoo, dudes.
I agree with Tristen1960. For a show to be truly sex positive and free...both genders should experience sexual fluidity.
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Although I do understand what you guys are saying, I don't think I can agree. Depicting more queer (or any other minority) characters is good. But I can't get behind the idea that any show (even one that has many) requires any specific minority group or sub group in order to still be positive.
The show could simply have more examples of queer women because it's aimed more at them as an target audience. Aren't there lots of shows with one or more gay characters in the cast that happen to be mainly (or exclusively) only one gender or the other?
Also, did any characters experience sexual fluidity? All the named characters had a specific orientation that they stuck to.
Oh, for goddess sake! Being a "sex positive" TV series does not require that males and females swing both ways, nor with everything that moves.
Heterosexuality is a natural preference. Homosexuality is a natural preference. Bisexuality is a natural preference.
In Lost Girl, the three branches of the sexual orientation tree were portrayed without judgement or partiality -- THAT is the basis of a truly sex positive TV series.
The "sexual fluidity" drumbeat coming from some members of the LGBT community is narcissistic and imperious.
I liked their romance but I thought it happened way too quickly on Mark's part of it. Vex has a fantasy and then suddenly, in the 'real world' Mark seems to start falling for him? That seemed to come out of nowhere to me (we'd only seen Mark with women before that).
I do wish we'd gotten to see them kiss outside of the fantasy and I really, really wanted to see Dyson's reaction (he seemed fine with them as a couple in the flash forward/ending?).
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Mark was shown as a player, as having interest in girls, even had sex with Bo, then suddenly after Vez fantasy (him i can understand he have a gay side) things seem to indicate they go in a bi/gay direction?
No no no... im sorry but i will pretend the end of last episode was like "good job buddy, we got it, we saved the world" and no romance was involved... even tough that hand holding didn't seem very manly.
Alice is the worst character of all time, she need to die in the last movie. Chris/Jill are RE !!!
Agreed destoyerwod.
Mark (along with almost everyone else) had a hard time believing Vex was totally on their side. The last scene with them together, to me, was Mark accepting Vex as one of them.
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