Queer as Folk and other things

[ciphergoth]

As predicted, I didn't manage the strength of will to go home last night. Instead we had a lovely pasta bake, watched the first episode of "Queer as Folk", and Lili turned Jess and I on to "Max Payne".

I'm not as taken with QaF as everyone else, but I'll give it a few more episodes at least. I know Stuart's callous ways are a real turn-on for many, but it doesn't work for me...

Max Payne is much harder than Castle Wolfenstein. You have to actually aim accurately, and the bad guys know how to use cover.

Lili has bought "Deus Ex" but it turns out to demand a better graphics card, so we just ordered one from Dabs along with an 8-port switch. We will have to run a network cable down the stairwell between our flats for the networked games...

Date with Lili at mine tonight, rar!

Comments

[sterroneous.livejournal.com]

I'm not as taken with QaF as everyone else

Has it only been five years? Gosh, it seems much longer than that. It's hard to remember just how ground-breaking and shocking it seemed at the time, with the tabloids frothing about it, and watching each episode on the TV in the loft to avoid having embarrassing conversations with my parents...

Don't remember many people swooning after Stuart, though his "I believe in fucking, not love" attitude does have a certain Randian charm. Vince stole everyone's heart iirc. Brian-and-Justin, Stuart-and-Nathan's equivalents in the American series (season four just started), make more sense as characters/a relationship, but then we've had the best part of sixty episodes to get to know them, so it's hardly surprising there's been more development than in the paltry 6+2 episodes of the UK original.

[lovelybug.livejournal.com]

ooh! American QAF! Must see!

I had a similar experience of watching it the first time - downstairs with my parents asleep upstairs, hoping no one would walk in during the gay sex scenes that were turning me on desparately! I adored Stuart, because he was so arrogant and nasty, but I'd be surprised if many people felt the same way!

[djm4]

I'm not as taken with QaF as everyone else...

Give it more than just the one episode. I enjoyed it from the start, but I really started liking it after about the third, when it became clear that it was a magnificently-written piece of TV drama, and had more to offer than just shock tactics with underage gay sex.

If you like max payne...

[kingginger.livejournal.com]

... and ever got in to Half Life : Counterstrike, then I could highly recommend the absolutely insane mod for it ...
The Specialists (http://www.specialistsmod.net/)

In a similar vein with the "bullet time" - And it does rock for multiplayer (and even includes Kung Fu as a killing method).

:-D

Humm...

Got me an itchy trigger finger... Will have to play some UT or Vietnam when I get home LOL

[nathan-nothing.livejournal.com]

I always enjoyed Queer as Folk, maybe coming from the Manchester area, very entertaining. But I was confused with a character called Nathan!

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

Well, I loved the underage gay sex myself..... I certainly would not want to date Stuart, but part of me sure wants to be him....just a tiny part...xxxxxx

[pavlos.livejournal.com]

Mindless FPS? You won't catch me doing that! I play social online games, if at all. :-)

QaF

[biog.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed both the QaF series. Stuart's a bit of a prick I tought, but I do admire some of his characteristics - check out series two when his nephew tries to blackmail him! (bit cruel though).
Having said that, we do get a hint to his 'other' softer side in series two & later in series one. Virgin are selling each series for a tenner at the mo.