[ SECRET POST #2967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #424.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets (also too big anyway) ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Queer as Folk US - at least two gay characters die, out of, if we count Brian one-night stands, who-the-fuck-even-knows-how-many.

Torchwood also comes to mind. With Ianto, Tosh, and Owen (that one dubios time in the pilot) three non-straight characters die, but given Jack is the most non-straight character of all and survives, I'd say it subverts the Bury Your Gays trope.

Buffy: The (until then only) gay character dies in the third season, but if you quit watching then you'll actually miss the canon lesbian relationship (and one of the most popular pairings in the show) in the season right after.

Revenge arguably had that bi guy that was obsessed with Daniel in the first season. Nolan, who's not only also bi, seen kissing and having relationships with guys, and is a main character is still alive and kicking (as far as I'm aware, I'm not caught up with the last season).

I'm not saying Bury Your Gays isn't a trope that needs to die (pisses me off when it happens to), but those are just a couple of shows from the top of my head where quitting because a non-straight character dies would be really stupid (in regards to other non-straight characters on the show). Also, FS just likes to argue with blanket statements - I don't think OP would actually quit any of the shows I mentioned here after the queer characters died, but the way the secret was phrased still made me go 'Oh really, what about _____?'

[(Anonymous)]

Buffy: The (until then only) gay character dies in the third season, but if you quit watching then you'll actually miss the canon lesbian relationship (and one of the most popular pairings in the show) in the season right after.

...And which eventually has one of them killed off.

Buffy pissed people off over this, I wouldn't recommend it to OP at all given what their issue is.

(And no, I don't consider this spoilers, considering it's been fussed over enough in fandom that people who don't like the Bury Your Gays trope most likely know about it already.)

[(Anonymous)]

*waves hand* I'm one of the viewers who stopped watching due to Tara's death and the abysmal season finale that followed. Completely avoided Firefly and Whedon's run on the comic Runaways because of it, and only tried out Dollhouse because it pandered to a kink of mine. I'm still miffed enough at Whedon that I tend to avoid things he's been involved with.

[caerbannog]

I didn't stop watching but I was so incredibly pissed over this. I was slightly less interested overall as well, but it was so close to the end of the series I watched through.

I'd be unlikely to continue watching most tv shows if they did this though. I'm not hugely attached to tv as it is so when you kill the little representation...*turns tv off and wanders away*

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I actually forgot about Tara. I don't really rewatch beyond Glory's arc, so that slipped my mind. But even if Tara fits the trope, doesn't change that the first death of a gay character doesn't, which was my point.

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

But even if Tara fits the trope, doesn't change that the first death of a gay character doesn't, which was my point.

As far as I can tell, your main point from the above comment was, "Those are just a couple of shows from the top of my head where quitting because a non-straight character dies would be really stupid (in regards to other non-straight characters on the show)."

So you're saying it would be "really stupid" for OP to ragequit BtVS after one gay character is killed off; OP should instead keep watching the show so OP can enjoy the presence of a later gay couple...one of whom is also killed off. Because being upset about two gay characters' deaths (the second of whom was a main character in a central relationship) is better than being upset about one?! If OP took your advice, I think OP would be far more likely, in those circumstances, to take a "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me," attitude towards having watched BtVS even after that first gay characters' death.