last night was the last episode of the bad son(or the crystal boys). the series was 20 episodes long, so in the middle i stopped watching it. i hate feeling forced to watch something every night. they are now going to repeat the series every saturday night from 12-2am showing two episodes a week.

apparenlty the show has been really popular. peter said the website recieved 200,000 hits. i'm not sure how many people actually watched the tv show, but it's rare that any asian tv show like this will even deal with gay topics(a lot of what is on television these days comes from japan or korea, neither of those being particularly queer friendly - korea in particular where i was told that a star there came out and was fired from his televsion show because of this).

the times that you see anything gay on tv(excluding western shows), it tends to be the old flaming stereotype. this is one thing i liked about this series, it showed all kinds of people as being gay, not one particular type. during this episode words went up the edge of the screen that said "wen wen(terry) contact your auntie or mom and dad, we don't blame you." it sounds like someone's parents had seen the show and realized being gay is no crime and want their son to come home who they probably couldn't accept before. i don't know if it's true, but i'd like to believe such a thing is possible.

recently, in one of my classes we were discussing different kinds of news(international news, local news, sports ...) and one of my students said she liked to watch international news. and when i asked her why, she said because they(other countries) are more open about things like homosexuality. it's an odd thing, the news will often report about gay pride events around the world or gossip on what foreign stars are gay or allegedly so, but won't report on such stories locally. or not very often at least.