Also, I want to see more of the villain’s work. I’m going to get his name and IMDB him. I’d never seen him before, and had no idea who he is, but he’s a master of facial expression.

I feel stupid for not seeing that Krod = Dork until Aaron said so.

I’ve spend time in enough gay bars to know the Queens outnumber the Butches, (most of whom are only affecting an aura of exaggerated masculinity for the purposes of procuring sex anyway, and whom all turn out to have Madonna records in their collection and yappy lap dogs they baby talk to, not matter how big their biceps are). Genuine masculinity is frowned upon as ‘trying too hard’ or ‘denying your true sexuality’ or ‘internalised homophobia’ and you are pressured to comform to the Queen stereotype to be considered ‘out and proud’.

It’s too pat to have the cynical, macho cop suddenly hanging around a Gay bar, as if this suddenly makes his character more interesting or complex. The Shield already ran with a similar gay character for its entire run, and had the guts not to go for the pat ‘out and proud’ easy solution. A more accurate depiction of my life would be the recent Gerard Butler movie ‘Rock N Rolla’, where a tough little criminal is outed to his friends, to initial shock, and then accepted due to his previous actions and behaviour anyway, so it becomes a non-issue. You can find acceptance in the wider world, not the ghetto.

Krod doesn’t strike me as being Homophobic. In a show where everyone is painted in idiotic, broad strokes, Bruce is an *honest* enough depiction of a gay man as to be expected. He’s open about his sexuality and what he likes doing, to the point of impropriety, which is the kind of conversation you’d overhear from a group of gay men talking anyway.

What you’re overlooking is that Bruce could have been abandoned to his fate by the group of heroes, but they welcomed him into their party and accept him for what he is. In the first episode, Krod discovers his Commander is in love with Bruce, and although Krod is uncomfortable with hearing graphic depictions of anal sex, he says this makes no difference in his respect and allegiance to him.

You also have an immensely-popular, openly-gay English comedian playing a sex-obsessed heterosexual villain. Not bad for a guy whose previously delivered the majority of his performances in Drag.

As for Annika, she feels no shame in what she’s doing, and broke up with Krod for this exact reason. She’s a Slut when viewed by his, (and some viewers), morality, but not by the beliefs of her own Pagan religion.

I wasn’t surprised at Bruce because it was pretty clear that everyone else in the show was a negative stereotype. I found Annika’s character sort of offensive, but I would, since I’m a straight girl tired of seeing sexually confident women portrayed as being willing to sleep with anyone for whatever reason.

I thought the only reason for watching the show is that baby faced bad guy. He was pretty dang funny.

Sean Maguire’s a little to thin for my shirtless tastes.