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Post by kyros on Jan 26, 2010 18:18:05 GMT -5
Oh, that would be interesting, bigloverocks, I agree! Kyros, they're showing it more because it's more vital to the plotline now. Before it was just a small dark secret. Now, it is obviously going to get Alby in trouble, either with Juniper Creek as a whole, or with Lura his wife, or with Dale himself. What I don't understand is how someone like yourself can be open-minded enough to be a fan of Big Love, but intolerant enough to be a homophobe! I'm not intolerant...I just don't appreciate gay sex scenes pushed down my throat. They could have written an excellent season arc without all the gay scenes, but they went with it cuz they have gay writers and or ran out of ideas for the show.
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Post by andre on Jan 26, 2010 21:35:14 GMT -5
Coming from a hetero-sexual male:
You guys need to chill out on the homophobia. The gay scenes are well done and an integral part of the story, both conceptually and graphically.
I also think alby took the picture with the prospect of using it as blackmail or a weapon certainly on his mind. I think he's failed to consider this could backfire horrendously, though.
Dale is mostly alright with it, though. He knows he has to fulfill a certain life, in public and at home, but he may be at wits end. Part of him might be willing to just say "Fuck it" as this point. Delusions of grandeur (and power) or not, that was NOT dale and alby's last fuck.
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Post by kiasmama on Jan 26, 2010 22:44:31 GMT -5
I have no idea where that plot is going...lol
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Post by withay on Jan 27, 2010 2:30:58 GMT -5
Thanks Andre. I agree and I am a heterosexual female. The scenes are not graphic at all, just suggestive. As for the guesses that they "hired some homosexual writers", the co-creators of Big Love are a homosexual couple and have been writing the show from the beginning.
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Post by JJ77 on Jan 27, 2010 4:35:58 GMT -5
as to the original subject of this thread "is dale using alby?" I caught something I didnt absorb the first time I watched when i re-watched the episode.
Dale asks Alby " what's going on in kansas? whys it so secret?" alby:" it's our new satellite compund. it's our new zion." dale: "do the people know they've spent over 100 million in it?" Aby: " let's not talk about that."
first of all I'm shocked at the amount of money the ueb has. but more to the point of this thread... I don't think this exchange necessarily means that dale is using alby - but I do think it shows that he's using his personal relationship with him to further his own cause and try to get info he might not otherwise be privvy to. IOW's while it may not be his sole purpose, he's definitely goign to use their relationship to his advantage... he's manipulative IMO.
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Post by liz3564 on Jan 27, 2010 11:27:52 GMT -5
Coming from a hetero-sexual male: You guys need to chill out on the homophobia. The gay scenes are well done and an integral part of the story, both conceptually and graphically. I also think alby took the picture with the prospect of using it as blackmail or a weapon certainly on his mind. I think he's failed to consider this could backfire horrendously, though. Dale is mostly alright with it, though. He knows he has to fulfill a certain life, in public and at home, but he may be at wits end. Part of him might be willing to just say "Fuck it" as this point. Delusions of grandeur (and power) or not, that was NOT dale and alby's last fuck. I don't think that blackmail was Alby's first thought in taking the picture. I think that Alby is genuinely naive in regards to what he is feeling. Alby is experiencing that giddy feeling of true infatuation for the first time, even though he is an adult. I think he took the picture because he genuinely wanted to remember the experience. Blackmail may be a second thought..but really, the picture is going to be more detrimental to Alby if discovered, than Dale...particularly if the picture is discovered on Alby's phone. Also, when Dale mentioned that single-sex attraction doesn't happen in the Celestial Kingdom, Alby completely brushed this off. It was something he didn't want to think about. He was ENJOYING these new feelings and sensations.
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Post by dove85 on Jan 27, 2010 14:06:09 GMT -5
i think they are using the work as a way to make an excuse to see each other.
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Post by BigLoveRocks! on Jan 27, 2010 17:04:30 GMT -5
kyros, andre, liz...Welcome to the board! I hope we'll be seeing you guys more often!!
I agree, Dale and Alby are using the whole trustee thing as a means to spend time together.
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