Jodie's sexuality.
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selenedm999 — 18 years ago(July 09, 2007 01:01 AM)
Yeah, that bothered me, too. It seemedcowardly, in a way, that Jodie should magically "straighten up" just because he happens to investigate the h0le instead of the p0le, a couple of times. I thought it was fine (and even more LIKELY) that he slept with a woman, becauseas he says "Just because I eat a burrito, it doesn't make me Mexican," and variety is good. I wish they'd have made the women much more boyish, though. However, when they showed him starting to "turn" in the second season, I think it made him less funny. I don't think it was Billy Crystal, thoughhe really seemed to enjoy going all-out (so to speak!) with the character's homosexuality. I think the whole idea was just too uncomfortable, for the writers and the censors at the time.
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Rayge — 18 years ago(July 10, 2007 10:36 AM)
"I think the whole idea was just too uncomfortable, for the writers and the censors at the time"
'At the time' is right on the money. This was less than ten years after the Stonewall riots, HBO and Showtime hadn't been invented, and there was simply no way a network in the US (or in the UK, where I watched it) would show a gay couple kiss, or have any sexual contact at all, so once we had the jokes about Burt's reaction to Jodie and the quarterback, there was no room for more development or irony. Jodie was still talking the talk "Are you a practising homosexual?" "I don't have to practice, I'm very good at it!" after he became a father, he just wasn't allowed to walk the walk.
Good point about Stephen Carrington. Quite a lot of the really outrageous stuff on Soap turned up for real on Dynasty and the Carringtons later. Alien abductions? Murderous terrorists? You betcha! -
pooka5472 — 16 years ago(October 18, 2009 08:28 PM)
Not to mention that only a year after the show premiered, the nation wound up dealing with the Moscone-Milk assassinations and the subsequent White Night riots. (These events were later parodied on the
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gambitcolumbus — 16 years ago(February 03, 2010 06:41 PM)
The show is supposed to make fun of soap operasJodie's changing sexuality is just one of many twisting plots and odd occurrences - possessed babies, alien abductions, people "returning from the dead" (Chester), cults, murders.
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chongajuly — 15 years ago(May 18, 2010 09:20 AM)
In one of the 4th season episodes,Burt was wondering about the sex lives of Carter and Reagan,and Mary says,"I don't think Republicans do it." At the very end of the series,a friend of the Governor named Gene(Jay Garner)claims to own "6 Governors,18 Congressmen,4 Attorney Generals,11 houses,12 cars,but not one Senator!" When Burt asks "Own?" Gene responds "well now I'm just joshing with ya,ya can't own people,that misguided fella Lincoln saw to that!" Fortunately,they kept politics out of the show,at least until Sheriff Burt became "Bat," but everything else was fair game,one reason why it hasn't dated as much as SNL or other groundbreaking shows of the time.
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dmnemaine — 14 years ago(November 15, 2011 07:28 AM)
It seems that the only reason to have a gay character on Soap was to make stereotypical jokes at the expense of gay people. Jodie Dallas protested a lot that he was gay, but his actions were for the most part heterosexual. There were plenty of comic/melodramatic situations that a truly gay Jodie could have found himself in without resorting to the "I'm so confused about my sexuality" tripe.
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abajasds — 14 years ago(January 22, 2012 09:15 PM)
Jodie kept swearing he was gay, but ended up with women. If things wasn't going well with being with men, he should have just been happy with women, and Maggie I believe loved him for who he was. Obviously it was a part of him that liked women because he did sleep with two of them, and it wasn't against his will, really. Dennis just wanted him to have a sex change so they could be together. He get a sex change to be a woman so they can be married, HELLO he wouldn't be the same person anymore.
In the beginning Jodie acted more flamboyant, but later on him being gay seem to have been mentioned less and less. I wonder did the show get a lot of letters wishing they would stop the Jodie is gay storyline.
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fiero-49251 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 10:23 PM)
Being gay had just been taken off the list of psychological disorders a few years before! ;-/
http://www.childrenofrassilon.com/fiero425.html
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