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I was watching Labyrinth on a loop as a young boy, and I thought David Bowie was awesome, but I turned out... more or less straight. Mostly. Pretty much. I mean, of course Bowie is gorgeous, I'm not an idiot.
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I am also more or less straight, but even I can regonize that Antonio Banderas was a very attractive man.
The fuck do you mean, "was?"
Still is, you're right, but there was definitely a sweet spot.
I like George Clooney, he was batman. ....now looking back that movie was a little horned up.
It's a two-sided coin. As a straight guy, watching Lucy Lawless in the Xena costume made me more hetero than ever.
Oh definitely 🥰 I wanted to be her sidekick/roommate so badly.
I just wanted her sidekick.... As a young boy that seemed to be more my speed.
Xena was a bit much for me when I was watching Xena on TV.... At like... 5? 10? IDK. What year is it?
Oh boy, when I watched Spartacus my childhood dreams came true.
I remember seeing a comment somewhere wishing they would reboot Xena, but lamenting that they would probably make it "too woke" if they did
I don't think there's much they could do to make Xena more "woke" if they tried.
It’s like this one guy that asked “what’s a run of X-Men that has no woke messaging “. Like dude…
"Haha! Good one! ...wait, you're serious!?"
You could make it more woke by replacing Kevin Sorbo with an actual human being, but that only affects the crossovers.
DISAPPOIINTEEDD!!!
A masterclass in acting. A true thespian.
A lesser actor would've just read the stage directions. But he yelled them. Brilliant.
Kevin sorbo was a joke even at the time when he was relevant.i swear his movement to the right was simply so he could eat, because nobody has cared that he still exists in 30+ years.
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People who talk like that have only seen pictures from the show, or they watched it a little bit when they were a child and don't remember 99%.
Because Xena and Gabrielle did pretty much everything except the physical deeds. And it was recently confirmed in a comic, where they kiss and say they love eachother.
Hell, you could probably show them the old show with the parts set in modern times and they'd blow their gasket. Becase the reincarnations are the opposite genders for a while.
"recently confirmed in a comic" doesn't really matter; because that's exactly how things get retconned in.
I mean, you're right, but not because of the comic.
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Yeeeeaaaaahhhh that show had a disproportionate influence on me growing up.
I never watched it. I remember other kids at school talking about it, but I never watched it. Kind of wished I did now.
Time to sail the high seas. It gets gayer with each episode IIRC. Like longing stares and shit.
As a straight dude it just made me like bratty women.
I'm a straight dude and it turned me into a lesbian.
I’m a straight dude and it turned me gay for lesbians
My appreciation for snarky, smart-mouthed, tomboys is starting to make sense.
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Never watched it. Was she canonically gay? That would have been quite progressive for the time.
She was wink-wink-nudge-nudge "unconfirmed." Very close with a female companion.
don't they literally kiss near the end?
There are more than a few nudges about them being roommates. And as a horny teen, I was there for it.
People liked to joke about Xena being lesbian back in the days.
I can't believe that, as a preteen, I thought she was "too manly"
Because a) no she wasn't, she was a straight knockout and b) that's sexist AF wtf preteen me.
She probably could have broken you in half and preteen you wasn't into that
Yeah, we all had a little growing to do as preteens. I tend not to hold it against purple.
I mean, if you're holding it till it's purple, that may be a problem.
holding it against green though is totally valid.
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Can confirm. Fucking loved her back in the day
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