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Originally posted by MildPossession
7pm?! The original would never get shown at 7pm unless they cut A LOT out.

It's shown after the watershed here, the series that has just finished goes out at 10pm, it must be much tamer than the UK series, and people are still complaining about it?!

Oh lots of very strong language in the British series, lots of sex but I can't remember much nudity from the teenage characters throughout though during the sex scenes in the way it's cut together and so on.

There's a lot of sex in the US one.

There wasn't much nudity in the original... at least not from the main cast, but adult characters were nude from time to time.
wasn't gratuitous though.

... based on the US pilot, there's no nudity in it... dunno about following episodes

heck, one of the changes that bother me the most was changing Maxxie from a gay dancer to a lesbian cheerleader... doesn't make sense to me... even more so when Tony hooks up with the character, it doesn't have the same punch to watch Tony turn a lesbian hetero, than watching him blow a dude...

just imagine the outrage that would have caused in the US 😂

I liked the change, she's hot.

You are aware Glee, a "family show", has a prominent gay character, right?

I don't like the change because I found it was an easy way out. Double standards and all.

And since they haven't distanced themselves from the original plot, having change the character that way makes them hypocrites... a different story would have been if the plot was in any way original and not a word by word re-enactment

That whole thing with Tony, it gave the character and extra layer, whether you think he is cool, confused or simply a tool for doing what he did... and now the US version has him being so irresistible even to lesbians... 😐

I couldn't care less if they were to have written the "gay" character out completely if it was an original story, but a rehash like this one, it doesn't work.

Am I aware of Glee?
I love that show so much that I have every Itune song they've released... But what does that have to do with anything?

How would a character on a MTV show blowing a guy cause an outrage when Glee isn't?

Pretty obvious what it has to do with the conversation.

hehehe

you didn't get it, did you?

I was making fun of how absurd the whole situation is. I thought the lol smilie gave that away.

People in outrage over a show depicting teens engage in situations that some (dare I say many) teens actually do in real life. Sex being the main reason... going so far as to call it Pedophile porn?... that's just ridiculous... add gay sex to that and watch the world burn!

Maybe you're just being naive... but just because there's a gay character in a really popular TV show doesn't mean the US has finally accepted there's diversity when in come to sex. It's sad to say it but true.

The producers of the show went the safe way making that change. It's ok to have lesbian characters because they're hot, lesbian making out is hot, lesbian having sex is hot (as long as you don't show nudity, mind you)... and you can easily had them be Bi and all is just peachy...

btw, Glee is a totally different show than Skin, you can't just compare the two just cause there are gay characters... and you wouldn't have something more than two male gay kissing in Glee... ever. That's as raunchy as it could ever get

A lol smilie can mean a lot of things.

MTV had some lame show on years ago with male gay sex. They may have been in college, can't remember.

yeah I remember that...

dunno what it was called though

EDIT: just looked it up. It was called Undressed... I remember watching a couple of episodes... didn't really make a mark though

funny that was ten years ago... and still controversy arise this time and day

I don't think it will stop until the show is off the air.But if it been running alot of shows in UK I doubt it.