Cowlip's intentions about Brian and Justin

[nightvision55.livejournal.com]

Hi, this is the first time I've posted here so please forgive any mistakes ...

I was just wondering; in the UK original, the focus of the series was the Brian/Michael relationship, and they were the ones who ended up together. So, did Cowlip originally intend that in the US version, and did they just go with the Brian/Justin pairing because they realised how hot the chemistry between Gale and Randy was?

Does anybody know?

Comments

"the love of his life"

[bilby10.livejournal.com]

I thought that line was so strange. Was Brian joking ? (maybe) The line doesn't make sense in the context of "you're my best and oldest friend" / "you're the family my real family could never be". If Brian meant it seriously, then he meant that Michael was the romantic love of his life.

In the end I just came to the conclusion that ClowLip were "feeding" those fans that yearned for Brian/Michael romance, but it doesn't fit with anything else !

I hear (from Shawn Postoff and actors' comments) that CowLip had a strong vision of what they wanted. Hmm ... from where I'm sitting it seemed a little wishy-washy at times. If they wanted a Brian/Michael relationship to develop as per UK QAF they should have stuck to their guns. Otherwise they should not have included those little clues thrown here and there to Brian/Michael fans, as they were distracting and made the general storylines more incoherent.

Re: "the love of his life"

[ryosato.livejournal.com]

But the fact is, what's in the show is what's in the show, motivations and opinions about quality aside. Canon is canon, and what happens in the show is what happened. The reason fanfic is fun is that you can take any moment and extrapolate it into a fic; this applies to b/j and b/m and t/e and every couple out there.

Re: "the love of his life"

[bilby10.livejournal.com]

Sure - I agree with regards to fanfiction (it always helps if there's at least a little backup in canon).

But in terms of judging whether the QAF creators present a consistent, coherent, strong storyline - it's pathetic!

I love S1 - S3, where I don't think there are great inconsistencies, but by S4/5 there are, and I can't help thinking that it is because CowLip kept tabs on the fans via the Showtime forums. They realised that there were at least two camps among the most ardent fans, so they tried to keep both interested to some extent. Just idiotic! They should have had greater personal integrity. Either go the UK QAF path (though I think Stuart and Vince were more "Thelma and Louise" rather than romantically intertwined" - nevertheless CowLip could have taken that approach), or throw out the occasional Brian/Michael subtext altogether.