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A night in the gay club-scene: overly self-conscious Stuart (Aidan Gillen)
& overly self-doubting Vince (Craig Kelly) are on the pull, & while
Stuart takes home boyish Nathan (Charlie Hunnam) - who turns out to be only 15
later on -, Vince seems tohave found luck with a bodybuilder, whose musclebound
chest turns outto be only prosthetics though ... so Vince is more than happy
when he's interrupted by Stuart, who was in turn interrupted by a call telling
him his ex Romey (Esther Hall) has just delivered a baby. Soon, Vince &
Stuart & also Nathan turn up in the hospital, & Stuart feels like
king of the world, seeing his offspring, & takes some unidentified drug
that gives him an outrageous high, & back home he shags the night away with
Nathan ... while Vince, rather inexplicably, wanks off to the video Doctor
Who - Pyramids of Mars (which I wouldn't have guessed was big with the
gay crowd). The next day, Stuart drives young Nathan to his school &
thinks that's that, reacting cold to Nathan's begging to see him again. But 6
months later, Stuart would come begging to Nathan, 'cause as he said earlier,
Nathan was the one-night-stand who would not go away ... Though
often called a controversial drama, Queer as Folk is
actually more a romantic comedy, that, by some coincidence, is set in the gay
world ... & it was about time someone made a(n unembarrassing) romantic
comedy about gays (though romantic might be used in the wider sense of the word
here). My point of critique is maybe, that Queer as Folk is
actually not wild enough for my taste (but that's a point of critique I have
towards romantic comedies in general). A word to the Doctor
Who-reference in this episode (& in many episodes to come):
Russell T.Davies did actually write some Doctor
Who-novels in the mid-1990's for Virgin Publishing &
would eventually become the producer/head-writer of the (much anticipated) new
2005 Doctor Who-series.
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