Re: ME homophobic?--Spoilers for Seeing Red

["tvs_wanderer" <tvs_wanderer@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> I am very distressed at the treatment of gay characters on BTVS. They have 
> now had all the gays go evil or killed.
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> Larry--dead
> Andrew and Warren--implied in tonight's episode--evil
> Tara--murdered
> Willow--evil. The character of Willow was sweet and wonderful until this 
> season so the message ME is trying to put across is become gay and you 
> either die or go evil.
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> This was not something I expected out MArti Noxon and her two moms.

Of course, on the other hand, two simple counterpoints could be made.

1) the straight people on "Buffy" get it as bad or worse than the gay 
people. It's difficult to accuse a show of glamorizing heterosexuality 
when the whole season so far has largely revolved around the 
destructive Buffy/Spike pairing.

2) Willow's "evil" is solely due to the magic, which is a totally 
separate facet of herself. She's been with Tara for two and a half 
seasons without being terribly evil, after all.

--TW