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Hmcooper4 wrote:

Another thing that I personally did not like was all of the parallels that they tried to draw to Snowing. Dorothy under a sleeping curse, surrounded by a group of diminuative people, Ruby coming in and delivering TLK, and even Ruby's line which was very much "I will always find you" reeked of poor and unimaginative writing. I would think that taking on such a controversial subject such as LGBT would be better served by finding an ORIGINAL approach.

I think that was done deliberately to show exactly how there's no real difference between a heterosexual and homosexual romance. Directly equating it to the main couple in the show was a precise statement and, if you stop and think, they did in general treat the LGBT coupe like any other couple in the show, without much emphasis on the gender of the two people. Conversely, they covered the more controversial parts of it (which have to do to the perception others have of LGBT relationships, rather than the relationships themselves) through metaphors. I think their approach was very clever and thoughtful.