If you’ve seen the Rizzoli & Isles promos for the upcoming season, you may have noticed the, ah, suggestive nature of some of them. An example. This is, of course, just to appeal to the thirteen-year-old-boy in many of us. I sometimes enjoy the show, but frankly I’d be happy if they dropped the teasing aspect (it’s just annoying). Either stop pretending that the ladies are hot for one another (the course I prefer) or quit faffing about and have one of cut through the bullshit.
Anyway…do you think the show could work if the characters were explicitly lovers, even if they were not out? Why or why not?
Oh, it’s there. If you’ve never seen the show, just take our word for it. It’s seething with suggestion that they are strongly attracted to each other.
I don’t know if I’d go *that *far. There are enough hints that it *could *be true, but nothing so blatant that the writers couldn’t deny it if they wanted to. That, and some wishful-thinking-fanwanking, and you’ve got a nice juicy bit of ambiguity to enjoy.
T.V. writers are getting good at pandering to the GLBT fans without actually having gay main characters.
I’d love to have more lesbian characters running about but hey we had a lesbian cop drama - Niki and Nora failed spectacularly, I think it never made it past the pilot.
I’m to the point where a straight romance has to be really well done to hold my interest so I can understand not pandering to the gay market; we’ll just have to keep getting by on fanfic.
Tim nailed it up-thread, that tension they’ve got going is the only interesting thing about R&I.
Edit: My grandmother loves R&I because “They’re such good friends.” Which always makes me chuckle since I’m watching for a completely different reason.
My friend who hounded me to watch the new Sherlock made sure to tell me that one of the things that she loved most about it was the smouldering bromance between Holmes and Watson.
OK, I just watched my first episode the other night (I know I"m a johnny come lately) and I immediately thought of this tread; so I had to dig it up just to reply.
My reply is this: Hooo Boy, you’re aren’t kidding there’s a sexual undertone between them.
It varies, if you ask me. Sometimes–FREQUENTLY–they’re more like an old married couple than anything else; Isles definitely acts as if Jane’s family are her in-laws, and that’s how they treat her. But whenever one of them is showing interest in a man, there’s definite unexpressed-lust-manifesting-as-jealousy going on.
