Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25184427-20140722165407/@comment-14168656-20140724211814

Ummm. I don’t think you articulated your point incorrectly. I just think it’s coming from a different perspective than most of the other people posting here (and might I add that only one person seemed offended by you they just seem to be offering their viewpoint which is different).

The thing is that I understand what you’re saying. As a hetero male who watches a lot of action/horror TV/movies. There are usually no gay characters, so I also noticed that TW makes it a point to announce that they DO have gay characters. Yes it’s a very low percentage of the cast (only three characters), but the fact that in a show with a somehwat rotating cast there is a gay character every season is NOT by accident (although I DO agree that there are still an unreasonably low number compared to real life). That being said I noticed it, but I never found it neither awkward nor clunky. I think the show in general makes an effort to make Race and Sexual orientation nonissues, which let’s face it, in a world where there are Werewolves and other supernatural creatures running around, are you really going to be bigoted against someone of a different Race or Sexual orientation? I think it would be a lot less likely. So like I said I definitely felt like they were making it a point to include gay characters, but it just never bothered me. I actually find it admirable that they make it a nonissue.

That being said, being straight I never thought about the point that a lot of people are making here: the gay characters are usually supporting cast (although I think Ethan’s character had a pretty big role and WAS necessary outside of being one of the token gays). The argument can be made that they never developed his character, but that can be said about almost all of the supporting cast except Isaac (who I think Davis wanted to make a regular).