Have you watched any Magicians at all? I wrote a whole excited rant below assuming you hadn't, and then reread your comment and went 'oh maybe they just aren't caught up,' so I'm just gonna leave it as is with the caveat that you may already know all of this:
It's interesting, because when I pitch the show to new people (as we all do with our weird fandom obsessions!), I usually tell them that the dude main character has canonically had sex with another major male character, they've kissed onscreen multiple times, and they definitely have the capacity for some kind of relationship, confirmed by a divergent timeline where they were more or less married. And the show never no-homos this at any point, just leaves it totally open. There's actually a line early in the first season before they sleep together where Quentin is worried about getting kicked out of Brakebills and having his mind wiped, and Eliot goes "oh, I'll just find you and seduce you, and you'll feel better" and Quentin's response is "thanks, that sounds nice."
So even just that kind of open-door, heteroflexible shipping policy is a selling point! You know, you can watch the show and read the fanfic and not have that weird taste in your mouth from the writers' discomfort, a la Sherlock. And I'm actually kind of surprised that they're centering and escalating that, even if it doesn't go anywhere from here, by showing us that Quentin is not just open to but actively invested in a relationship with Eliot. Because that is generally what the Hero Dude is not allowed to do on TV.
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Date: 2019-02-23 04:05 pm (UTC)It's interesting, because when I pitch the show to new people (as we all do with our weird fandom obsessions!), I usually tell them that the dude main character has canonically had sex with another major male character, they've kissed onscreen multiple times, and they definitely have the capacity for some kind of relationship, confirmed by a divergent timeline where they were more or less married. And the show never no-homos this at any point, just leaves it totally open. There's actually a line early in the first season before they sleep together where Quentin is worried about getting kicked out of Brakebills and having his mind wiped, and Eliot goes "oh, I'll just find you and seduce you, and you'll feel better" and Quentin's response is "thanks, that sounds nice."
So even just that kind of open-door, heteroflexible shipping policy is a selling point! You know, you can watch the show and read the fanfic and not have that weird taste in your mouth from the writers' discomfort, a la Sherlock. And I'm actually kind of surprised that they're centering and escalating that, even if it doesn't go anywhere from here, by showing us that Quentin is not just open to but actively invested in a relationship with Eliot. Because that is generally what the Hero Dude is not allowed to do on TV.