I could probably write a long essay about moments that defined their relationship, but I will limit myself to a few. I think the turning point for me was the prom scene when Brian shows up and Justin gets hurt. I think the rehabilitation showed a lot of growth from them both. However, it was nice that when Ethan cheated on him and accused him of being ok with what Brian did, Justin responded that he never forgave Brian, because Brian never made any promises.
That is in many ways why I think their relationship is so strong. It was really sad to see them say goodbye and end it, but it was the best for both of them. I think ending the show with a conversation between them in the ruins of Babylon was the best way to end it. I was sad to see the show go, and I am not ashamed to say that I was crying a lot when the episode came to an end.
There are some scenes that really reminded me how unfair the world is, and although it did sometimes take its message a little too seriously, I like that they used the show to show both sides of the issue.
The show is predominately about the lives of Brian, Michael, Emmet, Ted and Justin and how they love being who they are, but you do get to see the struggles they go though as well.
If you have any thoughts on the finale or the show in general, please leave them in the comments! Gale Harold did it, that hollow moment in his bed, alone, lost, lonely, it really rips a piece of my heart out, OMG so sad… I wanted it to be happy ending, yet it is not happening… I felt like screaming Noooooooooooo…. I just finished watching it for the first time in Netflix. It was so good. It really pulled me in and I just fell in love with all the characters.
Seeing Teddy sexually assaulted really punched me in the gut because men to can be raped and taken advantage of. I genuinely loved Brian so much. He carried a lot of hurt but still had such a huge heart. I wanted to grab him and hug him or just yell at him when he was being stupid. One of my favorite characters ever portrayed on television.
This show is for anyone and everyone. Thank you for posting!!! In turn, Brian shows a great deal of affection towards these individuals. Brian supports Michael in a variety of ways and knows everything about him, especially his love of comic books. Brian has also shown a degree of respect towards Michael that he rarely shows to other people, when they were traveling to New York, Brian openly admitted to Michael that he can be a terrible person and is grateful that Michael loves him regardless.
When Lindsey and Melanie believed their wedding day falling through was a sign that their relationship was not meant to be, Brian planned a whole wedding for them and attempted to pay for their honeymoon but Lindsey insisted that he had done more than enough and was extremely grateful.
Originally, Brian found Justin annoying but over time developed genuine feelings for him. He visited a shrink to help discover how to help Justin heal emotionally from his attack. Brian shows a special degree of selflessness towards Michael and Justin. Brian persistently tried to offer Justin financial assistance for his college education and became very concerned with the toll his night job had on his health and grades.
They come to share one of the most significant relationships in the entire series. Originally, Brian found Justin annoying, but over time developed genuine feelings for him. During the first season, his relationship with Justin is unclear. Brian hates the idea of couples but breaks his own rules for Justin, unable to resist the pull he feels towards him. He takes care of him in different ways: letting him move into his loft after Justin's kicked out of his parents' home, going after him to NYC after he runs away, advising him on school situations -- thus over and over, disproving his own verbal declarations of not wanting him around through his actions.
This is one of the strongest of friendships in the entire series. They have known each other since they were fourteen years of age, had their first experiences together, and look at each other like brothers, even in Michael's mother's eyes. In school, Brian has always stood up for Michael, helping him with homework, fending off bullies at school, and simply being there for him.
They often read comics and magazines together He is often very defensive of his best friend, Brian, and admits to having some feelings for him. For example, when Justin and Brian split up, Michael tells Justin to get out of their lives. Towards the end of the series, they are at odds. While they have shared so many things, their opposite beliefs are put into action. Michael gets that stable household away from the transient LGBT community of Pittsburgh, a husband and family and seemingly leaving Brian behind.
After a series arguments, Michael standing up to him about his beliefs, Brian is finally compelled to take more in consideration of what he really values in life. A sister-like figure to Brian.
They dated in college, but have become best friends, later became biological parents to Gus Peterson-Marcus. Sometimes fondly calls him 'Peter', in reference to Peter Pan, the boy who never grows old; He calls her 'Wendy' in return. Their bond is strong and in times of distress, they will confide in each other of their problems. She relies on him for the "cold hard truth" and will even at times refer him to Melanie for it as well to her dismay.
They are "frenemies" within Michael's main friend group, but they are ultimately friends, but it's complicated. In the end, they have learned from and of each other and have a very developed friend support and deeper knowledge of one another. Consistently, They constantly go "below the belt" with each other on issues with Brian often times with the upper hand. Despite their rivalry, Brian has been the source for Ted's insight and ultimate building of his self esteem through his brutal truths.
Ted doesn't know at first, but what he said in some messages Brian DID listen and gained insight as well. Throughout the seasons, Brian proven ultimately that he is Ted's friend and does have his back.
Ted ultimately admires Brian, but is also jealous of his confidence. Later, Brian even shows hints of jealousy; especially when he starts his own business in Porn. Albeit, Brian helps him in the end when Ted is in trouble having accidentally hired a minor in his establishment. Towards the end of the season, Brian is impressed by Ted's new found confidence and hires him as a CFO and assistant.
This work rapport greatly improves their friendship overall as they now confide in each other personally. Ted has also been instrumental in helping Michael and Brian resolve some of their problems as friends. There is evidence that Vic was an important person in Brian's childhood. After a casual sexual encounter at Babylon following Vic's unexpected death, he discovers he has testicular cancer, Vic pops in his dreams when in surgery and teases and mocks him.
From the dreams, it is more evident that Brian was influenced by him as an adolescent and they share a similar sense of humor and outlook, however, Brian's is darker due to coping with his immediate family.
Brian and Melanie have much tension from the start of the series. Brian would insult and humiliate her to attempt to rid of her, but as the series unfolds, their relationship improves At first, Melanie loathes Brian, but tolerates him around solely because of his connections of Lindsey.
Brian fights with her mainly when it concerns Gus as he denied signing the parental rights at first. When Melanie and Lindsey separate the first time, Brian tells her not to beat herself up when she cheat on Lindsey, gives up parental rights for her, and gets them married, they become more "frenemies".
When Brian has helped them, Melanie can be seen surprised and where she wants to hug him, knowing the tensions, she will grasp his hands with both of hers. In the middle seasons, she is friendlier towards him, will even inquire about his trips at times, and even take his constructive criticism when Lindsey told him about her case being taken over by "one of the boys".
Towards the end of the season, they've realize how much they share in common and have a standard friendship, and they have embraced each other as she no longer minds and is actually happy seeing Brian bond with Gus. Their natural tension prior, strong wills, and having so much in common keeps a rivalry alive within the friendship, but it's healthier.
They are "frenemies" to some degree, but they have a solid friendship at the end of the series. Emmett and Brian are pretty solid friends within Michael's main group of friends. They are not too close, but not distant either. Emmett is quick witted and has thick enough skin to handle Brian's darker humor jokes and doesn't take them seriously while Brian pokes funs at Emmett not meaning harm, although, he falls victim to his darker pranks often making the general friend group disappointed and angry.
As they get to know each other more through the series, they become better friends. Ben and Brian are casual friends due to being Michael's love interest and are generally cordial to one another, although they occasionally clash over their conflicting values and mutual interest in Michael. It is revealed in Season 2 that Ben and Brian shared a brief prior sexual encounter, which initially disturbs Michael.
From the start, they disliked each other. Brian thinks he is attractive and hits on him, but at the same time, feels a certain territory when it comes to his best friend Michael. David, on the other hand, also feels territorial of Michael and feels Brian is a threat rather than a friend of Michael's. At some points, he forbid Michael from seeing him because of so much animosity.
Due to David's rigid view of things, Brian felt the relationship wasn't going to last ultimately and he would prove too inflexible for Michael's personality. His prediction proves true as Michael felt the need to feel more of an individual rather than be David's shadow. Brian will never admit it, but he harbours jealousy when Justin leaves him for Ethan. Brian when as far as to tempt him with a business offer to reveal to Justin that he knows who his secret affair lover is, and another business offer to change his mind and tempt him to leave Justin to further his musical career.
His second temptation worked as planned and domino effected into more temptation for Ethan leading him to cheat on Justin with an anonymous fan causing, instead, for Justin to leave him disappointed of empty promises. She is Brian's loyal assistant.
Cowan: It was psychological. They reflected the interior life of the character at that moment, and we tried to use sex scenes to do that. We discovered that as we went along. Lipman : It made it acceptable and watchable.
We got so many emails over the years saying as much. Cowan: The networks and studios realized that there is an audience for a show about gay people. We all found out with Queer as Folk that over half our viewing audience was women.
No one expected that. Lipman : At the time, Showtime had done a lot of gay programming. We all knew Queer as Folk would get some degree of attention, and they were perfectly happy with it finding a niche gay audience when it launched so it was a real surprise that it crossed over. When you first started, did you come into the series with a list of topics you wanted to be sure to address? Cowan: In the beginning, we were adapting the British show and we made a lot of changes.
There were eight episodes of the British show, and early on we discovered that there were stories we wanted to tell that had social and political meaning. A very early story was Michael working at the Q-Mart. We discovered that there was story about discrimination on the job and Michael had to keep his gay identity a secret from woman who had a crush on him.
And we discovered early on with that story that there were a lot of political stories we could also tell. We were coming off that very political and emotional story. In setting up Queer as Folk, we knew it had to be about what gay life was like in the years to There were a lot of political things going on that we had to address because this is what the gay community was dealing with. Everything we did was always heightened because the characters were gay. If they were straight, it may have been a ho-hum story, but the fact that they were gay and had to overcome things, it was eye-opening to a lot of people.
It left a mark on us for so many years; it took a long time to recover from doing that. That was an opportunity to write the next step in the AIDS story.
From , the portrait of AIDS changed so dramatically — it was no longer a death sentence. We needed to write about that. As we went along, we introduced other gay characters who were living with HIV, which was important to us. QAF also took on hate crimes and gay bashing very early on in its landmark prom episode. Cowan: We knew early on how we were going to end season [one], and what would happen to Justin.
The Matthew Shepard story affected us deeply. We were drawn to using that as a story and exploring hate crime. Lipman : We took the Matthew Shepard story with Justin and gave it a hopeful ending that someone could survive that.
And when you hear about George W. Bush giving a speech in the Rose Garden saying he vows to change the Constitution of the U. We were writing the show in a very different time than it is now. In our minds, it would have been highly irresponsible not to address these issues. Dan and I always kept it in the back of our mind that this would have been the only chance in our lives to write about these things.
What was behind your decision to send Justin to New York?
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