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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9017991" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>He didn't like it because Roddenberry had written Sulu as straight and George wasn't keen on changing that, even if it was a personal homage to him. That said, it wasn't like Roddenberry would have had much of a choice in that anyway considering he couldn't even successfully have a woman as Number One.</p><p></p><p>To an extent, I both agree and disagree with George. Making a character gay or straight isn't simply a switch to toggle whenever you want. A character written as gay should be written intentionally, from the beginning, as gay. That said, as I mentioned before, it wasn't like people had a lot of freedom to do that back in the 1960s and still get it in front of certain audiences like we do now (or HAD a few years ago, at any rate here in certain parts of the US). So I'm OK with some degree of reinterpretations here and there, though there are some cases I think could have been better (for example - if they were determined to pick an original X-man to be gay, I would have gone with Hank, not Bobby because Bobby was an enthusiastic girl-dater back in the day while it was Hank who wasn't that interested and then got flamboyant as he came out of his over-intellectualizing head - so he even had an ongoing out-of-the-closet metaphor going on. Now, had Bobby come out as a bisexual who has periods of grooving on women or men depending on where he is in his life, that would have been a better fit with his history of dating Zelda and Lorna, plus bisexuals are <strong>horribly</strong> underrepresented...).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 9017991, member: 3400"] He didn't like it because Roddenberry had written Sulu as straight and George wasn't keen on changing that, even if it was a personal homage to him. That said, it wasn't like Roddenberry would have had much of a choice in that anyway considering he couldn't even successfully have a woman as Number One. To an extent, I both agree and disagree with George. Making a character gay or straight isn't simply a switch to toggle whenever you want. A character written as gay should be written intentionally, from the beginning, as gay. That said, as I mentioned before, it wasn't like people had a lot of freedom to do that back in the 1960s and still get it in front of certain audiences like we do now (or HAD a few years ago, at any rate here in certain parts of the US). So I'm OK with some degree of reinterpretations here and there, though there are some cases I think could have been better (for example - if they were determined to pick an original X-man to be gay, I would have gone with Hank, not Bobby because Bobby was an enthusiastic girl-dater back in the day while it was Hank who wasn't that interested and then got flamboyant as he came out of his over-intellectualizing head - so he even had an ongoing out-of-the-closet metaphor going on. Now, had Bobby come out as a bisexual who has periods of grooving on women or men depending on where he is in his life, that would have been a better fit with his history of dating Zelda and Lorna, plus bisexuals are [B]horribly[/B] underrepresented...). [/QUOTE]
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