The whole conversation with Billy and Sean was so terrible. Not the acting, i thought Sean was brilliant and acting really well and must have been so happy to get some acting to do, but the writing.
"You never looked at me like that" WHAT SEAN, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? He looked at you with LOVE AND TRUTH and he looks at Billy like nothing. And he said stuff about how it couldn't have just come out of nowhere and must have been building up, and no, there was LITERALLY no build up to their relationship. It just happened because the scriptwriters pressed a button. And basically he was just stuck in a world where Billy/Todd had any sort of canon on its side and NO SEAN, THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
But he meant more like 'you must have discussed it, not just dumped me for no reason and then suddenly realised you were in love with Todd'. Which ABSOLUTELY DID HAPPEN, they had a ton of secret conversations and Billy just keeping things from him for no reason and telling Todd he'd fallen for him and then going back to Sean - and Billy, who is a vicar and really spiritual, and I would guess has literally had conversations with people onscreen about being emotionally unfaithful and keeping things from their partners, said 'no, nothing like that happened'. As though he gets to keep the moral high ground, and be all beatific and smug. Ugh. I mean, it wasn't romantic or sexual or ANYTHING conversations, but he was definitely keeping things from Sean, and then is just like 'Sean, you're crazy, nothing happened'. I feel like they're giving Billy this storyline because they love his character and want to do more with him - but he was only ever really great at being Sean's boyfriend, and now they've completely rewritten and unwritten and messed up his character, he's not even that. Or anything.
Sean was really good though, I really love him. Was just talking last night with the podcast guy about how all gay relationships on soaps at the moment are just pointless sensationalism and drama, no gay character is allowed to just be happy and love themselves and their partner. And then there's Sean, being awesome, and no-one loves him for it. Even the person who was LITERALLY PERFECT FOR HIM and adored him. Ugh.
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"You never looked at me like that" WHAT SEAN, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? He looked at you with LOVE AND TRUTH and he looks at Billy like nothing. And he said stuff about how it couldn't have just come out of nowhere and must have been building up, and no, there was LITERALLY no build up to their relationship. It just happened because the scriptwriters pressed a button. And basically he was just stuck in a world where Billy/Todd had any sort of canon on its side and NO SEAN, THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
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Sean was really good though, I really love him. Was just talking last night with the podcast guy about how all gay relationships on soaps at the moment are just pointless sensationalism and drama, no gay character is allowed to just be happy and love themselves and their partner. And then there's Sean, being awesome, and no-one loves him for it. Even the person who was LITERALLY PERFECT FOR HIM and adored him. Ugh.