Xie, I have never watched Xena (ok, don't throw things at me, I don't watch alot of television....and my 22 year old neice got me addicted to QAF.."please please watch this with me, you are a liberal you can handle it"), but now I am completely intrigued. I just read your 10 reasons as to why Xena and Gabrielle are better than Brian and Justin. The knee bend thing totally turns me on in pretty women and pretty men, so now I am going to have to do what I did with Xena that I did with QAF.......my neice asked me to watch it with her during season five. I hated Brian and Michael's whining annoyed the utter crap out of me, and stopped watching after S5 episode 7, but then my analytical side kicked in, and I became intrigued. I went to Blockbuster and started with S1....and 12 days later having watched S1-S4 (yes I have a job and children, but my kids were with their dad for his half of the summer and who needs sleep when there are such pretty pretty men to watch) and picking back up with episode 8 of S5 I was hooked beyond all reason. I think it may happen again.....dammit why do I have to become such a freaking geek and research everything when something intrigues me......

Please don't hate Brian! You don't hate my Brian anymore, do you?

Xena is addictive. It is stylistically nothing like QAF, but thematically they are very closely related. And Xena/Gabrielle=Brian/Justin. It's UNCANNY.

I wrote more about it here, if you really are addicted interested.

So, remember where I said the writers didn't create these characters, that the characters already existed? They didn't create the story, either. And that means they don't own it, and they can't tell us how it ends. These stories belong to anyone who hears and sees them, and anyone who wants to tell them.

Ok, thank you for this...I have such problems with S4 and especially S5 with QAF. I cried so hard to watch Brian dancing alone. I hated COWLIP for taking something wonderful and using for a crap agenda.

As for hating Brian....ummmm no darlin let me put it to you this way and you can judge for yourself: I wanted to comfort him when his father died; I wanted to kiss his forehead and rub his neck and not say a danm word when he threw the party for Mikey; I wanted to sit with him in the hospital after the bashing; I wanted to kiss him again and give him a loving smile when he brought his mom flowers; I wanted to be underneath him experiencing the danger...the excitement (ok a bit wrong to go from mother to rough sex); I wanted to kick his ass (and Justin's) when he didn't fight for Justin; I cried for him when he hired the look alike hustler; I smiled a devious smile at him when Justin was the intern; I cried again when he and Justin were back where they belong, and I was never more proud of him than when he sacrificed everything.

Does that answer your question as to wheather or not I still hate Brian :-)

umm and after reading your disertation, I loved it, yeah....addiction forthcoming. Blockbuster is on my way home from work.

Make people feel better about 513 ending... check.

Create more Xena addicts... check.

Basically foster and promote obsession and perversion througout all levels of society... check.

It's a good day.

You and your lesbian agenda! :-)

Hey, it's Pride Month, we have to meet our year-end recruitment goals!