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“I always thought that what Russell [T. Davies] did in Doctor Who was extremely ground breaking in a slightly more subversive way than what it looked like. It never occurred to me that it was too on the nose, what he did brilliantly was introduce incidentally gay characters obviously as well as some more in your face ones. One of my favourite stories is Gridlock, there’s an elderly couple of ladies who are together and it just sort of passes by and that’s the way - softly, softly. That’s how the revolution happens as it were, you just become aware that people are incidentally gay. I think when the day comes that you have a big detective show where the first half hour was this man at work and he’s a maverick and all the usual things and then we went home and his boyfriend says, “Are you alright?” it was just a thing, then something would have genuinely changed. I think the problem still is it becomes the issue. I think the thing with gay characters is that it has to be an issue as opposed to being part of everyday life, which of course we all know is what it is.”

i love reading rod serling's wikipedia page and going oh of course. short king. jewish. new yorker. boxing fan. rejected football player. world war 2 veteran who was useless as a soldier. suffered from ptsd and later criticized the vietnam war. bad knees. ping pong enthusiast. college ladies man. student activist. girl dad. english major. parachute tester. he said "the ultimate obscenity is not caring". he revolutionized tv. he smoked four packs of cigarettes a day.

the man. the myth. the legend.

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