December 13th, 2007Can a Little Gay-Themed Subplot Bring Reaper Back?
In our first episode of the Angry Puppy vlog back in the fall, we were excited by all the geek-themed shows that the then-new season promised.
With great expectations comes great disappointment.
Bionic Woman, despite cameos by Katee “Starbuck” Sackhoff as Sarah Corvus, became all too human — in the bad way. And Isaiah Washington in any role? No, thanks. Heroes, though later redeemed, had to pass through the doldrums of a family-is-everything-in-the-Irish-mafia subplot before the second season could even really take off.
And what of Reaper? With the pilot episode directed by Kevin Smith and starring the devilish Ray Wise as, well, the Devil, the show earned a top spot in my DVR hierarchy. But after the third or fourth episode, it started to feel like another old CW teenfest, and episodes went unwatched.
I’ve been looking for any excuse to give the show another chance, and this may be it. According to Spoilerfix (via Adam Lubitow’s blog), Sock and Sam’s neighbors in their new condo turn out to be a gay couple who are somehow central to the episode’s plot. Are they the escaped souls that Sam has to capture? Do they help capture said souls? It’s not clear from the short synopsis posted.
A couple of lines got my imagination running in, I’m sure, the wrong direction. After being invited to dinner by their neighbors:
“Sock is offered some expensive scotch that he notices inside. During dinner when Sam spills something on his shirt and when Steve takes him into the bathroom to use a stain removing pen on it [...]“
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen both of these plot devices in less, shall we say, family-friendly fare. The episode, “Unseen”, is scheduled for January.
