# Queer As Folk (Potential Spoiler Alert) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 7, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490 "2005-07-07T18:37:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/81 "2005-08-05T19:42:22Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > could have done a lot more - an evil straight brother of Brian who would be his personal and professional Nemesis… Wow. What a great idea! ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/82 "2005-08-05T19:47:48Z")
Anti-Brian would have to also be played by Gale, but he’d have a mustouche, preferably of the handlebar variety. And a top hat. He’d have to wear a top hat and carry a bejeweled walking cane. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/83 "2005-08-05T19:56:46Z")
> [@Club 33](#): > > Yeah, “edgy” might have been a poor choice of words. I just feel that the show lost something, and I’m not sure what that something was exactly, last season. It still had the drama, it still had the sex, it just didn’t feel the same. I can’t really put my finger on it. It was that god-awful AIDS ride storyline. Ted and Emmett pedaling through the wilderness, having their own little AA meeting…ugh. That almost killed the show for me right there. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/84 "2005-08-05T20:04:50Z")
I don’t know…isn’t adding new characters, especially previously unmentioned relatives, the real death knell for a show? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/85 "2005-08-05T20:06:53Z")
Nah. West Wing did that kind of thing all the time when Sorkin was there. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/86 "2005-08-05T20:11:14Z")
> [@Licentious Ectomorph](#): > > I don’t know…isn’t adding new characters, especially previously unmentioned relatives, the real death knell for a show? I think it actually improved _Charmed_. I hated that Shannon bitch. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/87 "2005-08-05T20:12:03Z")
> [@Licentious Ectomorph](#): > > I don’t know…isn’t adding new characters, especially previously unmentioned relatives, the real death knell for a show? Yeah, remember Cousin Oliver on The Brady Bunch? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/88 "2005-08-05T20:42:31Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I think it actually improved _Charmed_. I hated that Shannon bitch. Shannen. And nothing improves _Charmed_. It premiered at its nadir and somehow managed to sink even lower. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/89 "2005-08-05T20:45:49Z")
Did you just call me Shannen? Bitch. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/90 "2005-08-05T20:49:01Z")
No, actually, I kinda liked Charmed, as far as those shows go. I even liked it more than Buffy. It was an easier to chew, bubble-gum show each week I didn’t really have to watch all the time to know, or care what was going on. Don’t tell my buddies over in the Joss Whedon Firefly threads though. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/91 "2005-08-05T21:21:49Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > No, actually, I kinda liked Charmed, as far as those shows go. I even liked it more than Buffy. _ **Blasphemy!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Club\_33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Club\_33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Club_33)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490/92 "2005-08-08T03:39:16Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > It was that god-awful AIDS ride storyline. Ted and Emmett pedaling through the wilderness, having their own little AA meeting…ugh. That almost killed the show for me right there. Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head. They pretty much jumped the shark at that point. We’ll see what happens tonight. I hope it isn’t too sappy but I fear the worst. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-as-folk-potential-spoiler-alert/311490.md?page=4)