I’m watching the old TV series… and by 2021 standards, it makes me think that they might have been committed domestic partners.
I can’t say exactly why I get that impression… the costumes? The adventures? The two incomes? The lavish lifestyle? And what would Freud say about the long train rides off into the sunset at the end of every adventure?
Is this even possible?
A few years ago I was watching an episode of I, Spy at my mother’s house and my sister made a similar observation about Robinson & Scott. There was a scene where Scott, played by Cosby, just takes off his shirt around Robinson, played by Culp, during a casual conversation.
I’m aware that there were plenty of queer coded scenes and dialogue in movies and on television back then. But I don’t really think The Wild Wild West fits the bill. I don’t believe most people would have interpreted the relationship between Gordon and West as romantic in nature.
Even today, two men can be friends without anything sexual about the relationship.
What you’re doing here is just channeling Frederick Wertham.
If they were, it was the most blatant over-compensation ever on Jim West’s part. He was a worse womanizer than Kirk.
BTW: It is Jim West, do you want me to fix the Title of the thread?
“They” (critics, journalists, people in general) were saying things like that going back to the days of the Long Ranger and Tonto. Then came Batman and Robin. How’s about The Man From UNCLE and his blonde Russian partner (if you will) as played by David McCallum.
I dunno. If they are a couple, I think West would take Gordon’s name. Jim is definitely ‘trophy husband’ material, in those tight pants.
Dude might have had a point about Wonder Woman…
Forget the handkerchief code; the real way gay men signaled their interests to each other in the dark days was to take off their shirts in front of each other. Public beaches were a minefield of innuendo and mixed signals.
I was really trying not to bring up those weirdly-styled painted on pants. Bull-fighters could stare at him and say, “Man, that’s one over the top outfit”. And it was the exact same outfit, to the smallest detail, in either blue or dark green.
Ok, but think about how often the show ended with Jim West, The Girl of the Week, and Arty Gordon on the other side? Trolling for threesomes maybe?
Did you ever watch any episodes? They were always dating women at the end of the episodes.
Beards. All of them. Beards.
Some episodes they each had a woman. Some… they didn’t.
Do you have a cite for that? Not really remembering it, particularly journalists.
Here, a cite for which now…? Please be specific… or as specific as you can.
““They” (critics, journalists, people in general) were saying things like that going back to the days of the Long Ranger and Tonto.” I don’t remember journalists or critics saying anything like that in the 60s or 70s, when it was in reruns.
“Were [insert fictional same sex duo here] secretly gay” has to be one of the most tiresome conversations on this board. Isn’t the only real answer “They were not portrayed as such”?
Further back there was Huck Finn and Jim. Before that, it was Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook (pronounced “Chicago,” I believe).
And Gilgamesh and Enkidu…
Jonathan and David?
They do have such lovely “Gift Baskets”…