I'm sure. I find it interesting there's no LGBT characters. I'm not sure how they would handle it. I figured during that acid orgy in Germany there might be one or two. I haven't finished season two.
shareI believe there actually IS a gay character on this show... and, no, it is not the antique dealer. Warning: If you have not yet seen season two's 8th episode (Loose Lips), the following will contain spoilers.
In episode 8 of season two, there is a brief exchange between Ed and Frank in which Ed suggests that they escape to New York, which is controlled by The Reich. Frank reminds Ed that "they gas people like me in the Reich", referring to his being Jewish. When Ed replies "Then I'll go", the implication being that he will go alone, Frank replies, "They gas people like you, too." Ed is not Jewish or noticeably disabled, so I wondered what Frank meant by that... and, suddenly, little things from past episodes started clicking into place.
Ed's closeness to Frank. Ed's apparent resentment of Julianna in Frank's life. The unreasonable reactions of disgust Ed's grandfather expressed here and there concerning Ed's friendship with and constant loyalty to Frank. Ed becoming involved with the Resistance, going against his own beliefs and putting his own life at risk, doing whatever it took to help Frank. Ed's overall body language in every scene seeming to suggest he was closing himself off, trying to remain unnoticed as if he was hiding something when he never seemed to have anything to hide at all... unless he was trying to hide something about himself that couldn't actually be seen, like "being gay". Throwing that possibility into the mix, it started to look like Ed was in love with Frank. It's a hopelessly unrequited love, as Frank is clearly attracted to women, and it's a love that would never be expressed outright, being that homosexuality carried a death sentence... but it IS love nonetheless, and stronger than the love one would have for "a best friend". Ed being gay explains alot, and it makes complete sense.
Great, here comes the gay romance in s3. 'Cus y'know, there aren't enough token gay characters in every series.
shareNowadays that's to be expected. Television shows have always striven to include characters that their viewers might come across in daily life. In television's early years, characters on tv shows tended to be predominately white, and tv households tended to be "traditional" 2-parent families in which husbands worked and wives were stay-at-home housekeepers and child rearers. As time went by transitions began taking place on television, at more or less at the same time they were taking place in our communities. Television shows began to include characters of different nationalities, races, creeds and lifestyles. We started to see characters that were living with AIDS, addictions, developmental and physical disabilities. Where tv show households were concerned, we started to see more single-parent families, role-reversals (working wives with stay-at-home husbands), interracial couples, interfaith couples, gay couples, bisexual couples, families with step-children, adopted children, and biracial children. Whether we support and like the changes or not, they will keep occurring. These are simply the times we live in.
shareThat's not because he's gay. It's because he has an incurable condition. He has a lung disease.
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