Comments on: God Only Knows: A Conversation with the Creators of Big Love

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:15:43 +0000

#10 – “That’s how they get you hooked. Like meth.”

And then, you get hooked on AMC’s “Breaking Bad”.

By: danithew

danithew — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:51:05 +0000

I tried watching an episode of Big Love. It was boring.

By: Rigel Hawthorne

Rigel Hawthorne — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:53:08 +0000

Realistic Gay Mormon Character Options:

1. The midlife male who after years of marriage to a member wife AND after fathering several children decided he was gay and divorced. (Not enough dramatic potential/boring)

2. The RM who gives his homecoming talk then embarks on a new out life, leaving the church behind. (Not controversial enough)

3. The musician/thespian who is not out, but is single and has effeminate qualities. (has potential…faces fallout from the artistic community after prop 8 about his Mormon-ness)

4. The eternal bachelor who is one of the older members of his singles ward. Dates, but never puts out. Prefers to double date. Older women in the church just can’t figure out why he has not yet married. (Too straight-laced for Big Love/needs spicy dangerous liasons)

5. The gay GA. Ultrasecretive encounters with conflicting feelings about who he is internally versus the facade he shows externally. (OK…so its not realistic, but is tabloid quality material; also, someone the age of the Golden Girls doing love scenes like they have in Big Love would be Big Ugh.

By: John C.

John C. — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:54:19 +0000

Jason L.,
Let’s read bbell a little more charitably, shall we? I am suddenly in a forgiving mood.

By: Jason L.

Jason L. — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:51:20 +0000

Yeah, bbell, thank goodness the statistics are so comforting–as long it’s only a few gay Mormon teens who commit suicide, not enough to make Utah’s statistics look bad, we definitely wouldn’t want to be overly concerned.

By: Geoff J (and thus not Geoff B)

Geoff J (and thus not Geoff B) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:25:48 +0000

John C: If the closeted gay member doesn’t commit suicide, I shall eat my hat.

I love the fearless prediction. Let’s see if the writers can think of something — anything — that isn’t that hackneyed and predictable.

By: Justmeherenow

Justmeherenow — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:51:48 +0000

Next season’s script arc writes itself, doesn’t it.

By: John C.

John C. — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:40:46 +0000

bbell,
not my post

By: John C.

John C. — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:39:02 +0000

MikeinWeHo,
Is it really nuanced when it comes to the institutional church? I’ve yet to hear any evidence to the contrary and would happily surprised to find some.

By: bbell

bbell — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:35:57 +0000

John C that was funny. The actual data of course refutes the claim that appears to be made from whole cloth that suicides are high in Utah because of SSA issues and Mormon culture. I think it was John Mansfield that actually did the research and debunked the whole thing.

Also I really enjoyed your last post about expectations. It was a really good one. Sorry it got hijacked by numbskulls.