http://anyusa0030.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] anyusa0030.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] getithere2011-04-18 06:49 pm

qaf ending article

there was an article that one of the writers of qaf wrote to try and explain the ending to the fans who were not so happy about it,i saved it but somehow have lost it.the article talks about the five kind of love,the plutonic,romatic,self and so forth.if anyone have this saved or have a link ,i would really greatful thanks.there is also an interview with the producers about the ending.


thanks a lot guys it turned out it was in my lj,din't that make me feel 101 yrs old.there are a lot of interviews in the comment some of which have never read so i will get to them BUT the one i was looking for is in anyusa0030 link.

[identity profile] vlredreign.livejournal.com 2011-04-19 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Most of us pretty much blew off Postoff's explanation of S5 and Brian in particular. He was so far off the mark it wasn't funny.

I felt the way you did at first. I watched it when it first re-aired, a couple months after the finale. And I was like "WHA!?!?" Then I watched it again, and...still kinda confused. By the time the dvds were available, I snatched it up and watched it carefully. The only thing that really bugged me was that after all they'd been through, the writers saw fit to regress Brian back to S1 Brian, and make the show so political they took away from the story they could have been telling. Nothing wrong with political stories, but they just let it overshadow everything. Very frustrating. I made my peace with it and now it's fine.

[identity profile] vlredreign.livejournal.com 2011-04-19 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't hate S5, but it's not my favorite. That would be S3. And I agree that the political stuff was a fuck you to Bush, but yeah, there was so much that could have been told that wasn't. The ending was my initial problem with S5, but they were finally together in the end, even if they were gonna live in different places. I was good with that.

[identity profile] wren-kt7oz.livejournal.com 2011-04-22 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
ITA about the political thing - but what I found the most frustrating thing (and I still haven't come to terms with it), was that having sacrificed any sort of decent character development or even interesting story lines to make their precious political statements - the statements they made were so lame. They lacked any real insight, any new perspective. S5 was basically a season long whine about how straight people hate gays and it isn't fair. Given that they were pretty much preaching at a gay-friendly audience, some ideas about how to change attitudes, how to make an impact on people like Jennifer Taylor; decent people who would probably never have thought about the battles fought by gays and lesbians every day if her son hadn't turned out to be gay - they're the ones who need to be reached. If you could reach even one tenth of the Jennifers in the world, and encourage them to see that no child deserves to be treated as Justin was treated - by his father, his school, the justice system that condoned Hobbs' attack - then you'd a force for change in the world that it would be unstoppable. But in fact there was no sense that they believed it was possible to change attitudes at all. Just that they felt victimised. And seriously, if their belief is that the most important thing the gay community has to aspire to is to be allowed to dance and fuck and drug the night away at Babylon (and that's what I took from the final scene), then maybe they (as in CL) deserve to be victimised.

Sorry, like I said, still bitter.