And more Boston Legal..
Jun. 27th, 2008 12:57 pm(![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fickleone look what you did!)
Sofickleone and I were talking here. And then I went off the deep end again as she reminded me of the intensity of my love of BL and Denny and Alan.
So here's some more BL love:
A great blog entry about the "intense guy friendship" of Denny & Alan can be found here.
But the cherry on the top of everything is Alan and Denny.
Dancing and twirling, fishing, spooning, getting facials, musing on happenings and life on the balcony. Having sleep-overs. Helping each other out. The two characters that are extremes -- Denny is an ultra conservative, gun toting senior partner who has never lost a case (yet) and is denying (Mad Cow anyone?) that his abilities may be suffering from age. And Alan is a liberal (kinda) and cares nothing for breaking rules where it makes sense. They are both kinda "on their own"--but end up being the best friends ever. And no, not like "that." They truly are so comfortably around each other that normal heterosexual American male boundaries just don't exist.
fickleone look what you did!)So
fickleone and I were talking here. And then I went off the deep end again as she reminded me of the intensity of my love of BL and Denny and Alan.So here's some more BL love:
A great blog entry about the "intense guy friendship" of Denny & Alan can be found here.
Denny Crane and Alan Shore, the lusty, skirt-chasing guys on "Boston Legal," are in love. Theirs is a deep, yet platonic love.
They have slept together, although not in the biblical sense, dressed as flamingos together and shared their innermost thoughts and insecurities.
The various women in their lives have never scratched this deep. It's as if Denny and Alan are married but having sex with other women.
Another blog about how Boston Legal is the unsung hero of US television.
The real genius of the series, though, consists in the use of Spader's character to present what are in effect a series of highly critical, nuanced love letters to the idea of America. Hard on Bush, harder on the causes of Bush, the series draws its principally stateside viewers gently back into contact with the dreamlike vision in which their nation was originally conceived. Watching each episode, whether it concerns the death penalty, human body part trafficking, or simply Spader and Shatner's unconsummated love, is to remember what we, as Britons, lack. And I don't mean good television.
But the cherry on the top of everything is Alan and Denny.
Dancing and twirling, fishing, spooning, getting facials, musing on happenings and life on the balcony. Having sleep-overs. Helping each other out. The two characters that are extremes -- Denny is an ultra conservative, gun toting senior partner who has never lost a case (yet) and is denying (Mad Cow anyone?) that his abilities may be suffering from age. And Alan is a liberal (kinda) and cares nothing for breaking rules where it makes sense. They are both kinda "on their own"--but end up being the best friends ever. And no, not like "that." They truly are so comfortably around each other that normal heterosexual American male boundaries just don't exist.
