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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.83,0:00:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Caprica is a new show on the SyFy network that is actually set 58 years before the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.24,0:00:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,events of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. As I watched the second episode
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.78,0:00:16.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed something said that was so subtle I almost missed it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.89,0:00:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I used to hangout here with your dad. All the Tauron kids came here. I'd be hopelessly
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.66,0:00:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to flirt with some guy, meanwhile your dad would get a date with his sister."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.64,0:00:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you catch that? Because that man just said he was gay.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.30,0:00:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it wasn't a big production, it wasn't a big coming out story, it wasn't said in big
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.83,0:00:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flashing lights, it was so normalized that I didn't even notice it at first.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.61,0:00:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually had to go back and listen to it again because I was like, Oh, it just was in passing,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.04,0:00:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how it should be.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.78,0:00:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That man's name is Sam Adama and he's apart of the main cast on Caprica.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.12,0:00:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also really nice to see that he's not stereotypically gay like we often see
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.32,0:00:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in queer representations on TV. Gay men are often flamboyant and obsessed with fashion.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.76,0:01:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might recognize these men...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.90,0:01:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is one teeny little problem
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.90,0:01:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sam Adama is a murderer, he's actually a hired hit man, that's apart of a gang.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.90,0:01:13.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He also isn't your average killer, in that you know he doesn't dress in black
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.14,0:01:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and kill someone with a silencer quietly and then sneak back out of the house,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.18,0:01:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like we've come to see on television and movies.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.45,0:01:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, he ah, chooses to use two very large, very phallic knives
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.08,0:01:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to slash open his victims in a grotesque and guesome way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.29,0:01:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hollywood has a long history of making queer characters monsters and sociopaths
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.53,0:01:40.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and murderers who have no moral compass. This trope is used in order to reinforce
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.23,0:01:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fear of homosexuality. So do you see the problem here? One one hand you have this
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.55,0:01:49.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,awesome representation of a queer character whose totally normalized in being queer
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.11,0:01:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not even an issue, it's totally accepted in society and he's not stereotypical in that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.38,0:01:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand he's kind of crazy and he's a murdered.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.58,0:02:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just when I want to celebrate a genuine accomplishment of Hollywood
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.59,0:02:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have to go queer man disturbingly evil.