I am now realising how naive I am. The episode with April and Douglas I had always interpreted as a way to show people how silly it is to base your ability to connect with someone on what they identify as since he and April seemed to be a match made in heaven yet when she reiterated that she was not born as a woman, he broke up with her yet is seen crying by himself doing what they used to do together. Why should the relationship have ended then since he clearly had a connection with her and even misses her after the fact. Now I feel silly, that is really disappointing 😞
Did it leak into the show? The Douglas and April episode showed problematic behaviour from Douglas, but that's his character's whole point. He is meant to be problematic. If that episode had been Roy and April instead I would be more inclined to agree.
I think his views have, erm, evolved since he was writing the show. Or devolved? It's sad for me because I really liked his work, but he's gone full throttle.
I think the joke of that episode is about Douglas being an idiot, but there's an aspect of it which is sort of saying a trans woman is really a man? Yeah, I dunno. It's hard to watch it knowing what I know about the writer/creator now.
It's lightening in a bottle: the first season sets up so many payoffs and is incredibly quotable but the Season 2 opener is quite possibly one of the funniest episodes of a comedy ever made - it's just layers and layers of escalation.
Oh my god! I was going to mention how well that episode (Series 2, Episode 3: Moss and the German) perfectly encapsulates how I have to communicate or make small talk with strangers as someone on the Spectrum. That episode will always be a classic!!
Except people aren't always a bunch of bastards. My parents are - sorry... were - amazing people and it's not fair what happened to them. Sorry, I don't want to talk about it. Ever.
It's one of the rare times they're both right about something. I think it was the beginning of their beautiful friendship. I liked Kelso's Garden Gnomes too.
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u/grantnel2002 4d ago
Have you even met humanity? They’re the worst.