all right, let's sway toward other things for a hot minute.

[amelialourdes]

I'm feeling better about yesterday's Lure thanks to the wonderful members of lure_atwt. Stories, videos, gifs? They all work.

Now that there's a bit of a Lure break until Thursday, let's discuss this brand spanking new CowLip interview that has randomly popped up out of nowhere. Now that I've had a little time to digest it all, I can happily say, what are they on and can I have some of it?

What is this "of course Brian and Justin are together"? There was never an of course. I think that they made a very strong effort for there not to be an of course. I remember the talk at the convention. Who was there? Postoff? There was quite the ruckus there. I remember the lack of communication between various writers and the creators of the show and the cast. I remember the joy I felt when I heard that Brian and Justin were getting married and it wasn't because I thought that their marriage would bond them together forever. I already felt like they were together forever but at least we'd get to see them have a happy ending, see them together to the end. Is that what happened? No.

I remember how pissed off I was to see Justin just disappearing like that and Brian bouncing around like a club boy, giving me the impression that -- no -- he never grew up and there he is dancing without Justin.

In case you need quotes from 2005 from both CowLip and Postoff, you can find it here in gaedhal's journal.

I mean, it's nice for them to think that that was their intention but it didn't seem like it was then. It's what they think it is now and personally, I just think that they're trying to appease people five years later. Most old fandom doesn't care about this now but they cared about it then and people who only watched through DVDs and caught up with the show later will probably accept these answers.

Sooooooooooooooooo sigh.

Comments

[friday82.livejournal.com]

I mean, it's nice for them to think that that was their intention but it didn't seem like it was then. It's what they think it is now and personally, I just think that they're trying to appease people five years later.
Exactly my thoughts. And if that had been their intention, why didn't they choose to portray it like that? I also vaguely remember the older statements. Where does this change of heart come from? I admit, the new interview doesn't change my very negative view of S5 and its ending...

[amelialourdes.livejournal.com]

Word. Agree with you. This doesn't repair what we felt then and the explanations that we asked for that they didn't give to us. Well, they did but it's so far from the answer that they're giving us today. I'm sure that the fans who became fans later are appeased (I'm assuming -- just because they weren't there during the spoiler/screener era) but if you watched the series every Sunday? No way.