Blackwell Sisters

Hot Rod

Thanks for starting this thread. I`m very surprised it took so long for Fayana to get their own thread here, but it`s better late than never. I absolutely love Faye and Diana together and think that they should become an official couple. They have such great chemistry that is impossible to deny.

Also i like to be added to the list.

Blackwell Sisters

Welcome Rod , you're welcome. We were talking about making threads here this week and we finally got TSC here .

I completely agree about their chemistry!

acoustichearts

add me? thanx for this thread

murphyboy11

Can I be added please?

JensensGurl07

add me plz

arakha

Add me of course

The_Void

Add me! I've been meaning to make a Fayana thread here for ages. Thank god somebody else got around to doing it.

Love that photoset. It's so pretty!

JensensGurl07

Thank you I thought it was a good one with all their scenes together so far

arakha

Who Should Faye Be With on The Secret Circle: Jake Armstrong or Lee Labeque? - The Secret Circle

Vote, vote! Diana is slaying, obviously.

IDK why they didn't mention her in the title or article itself, just the poll.

The_Void

That poll is brilliant. Fayana is running away with it. And quite right too! Now the writers just have to give us what the masses are clearly demanding.

arakha

I'm wondering if it's not just up to the writers though, but the network as well. Because we know there are BTS people interested in taking them further.

I remember reading about some controversy with Willow/ Tara's first screen kiss with Joss even threatening to quit (?) and even the possibility of a Veronica/ Wallace romance on Veronica Mars was apparently vetoed by the network, I'm not sure though, I can't remember the sources

The_Void

Yeah, I knew there was some controversy about the W/T kiss. I'm not sure on the details, but regardless, it went ahead and the ratings were barely hit. I wish networks would realise that, even though they would certainly get some angry complaints from a few small-minded people, they represent only a very vocal minority, and the ratings won't really be hurt at all. In fact they could even be boosted by bringing in the LGBT audience.

Skins enjoyed its most successful seasons when Naomi/Emily were around. British soaps like Eastenders and Coronation Street have had multiple gay and lesbian storylines, and while all of them attracted a lot of complaints from "moral guardians", the ratings were not hurt one bit, they are still the most watched shows in the country. Torchwood has an openly bisexual lead and has been renewed for a fifth season. Even in America, Glee has Kurt/Blaine and Brittany/Santana and it's still going strong. And Pretty Little Liars with a lesbian lead is, AFAIK, doing fine also. Networks have absolutely no reason to be afraid of doing a gay/lesbian storyline. It's only the vocal 1% that would have anything to say, and it's the same 1% that are boycotting Harry Potter because it promotes witchcraft. 99% of the audience honestly don't give a flip these days, at least not nearly to the extent that they would stop watching the show, I honestly believe that to be true.

arakha

Most of those shows, like you said, are British. Even on Glee Brittany/ Santana are constantly sidelined for other couples and PLL airs on a cable channel I think and although I do think their representation of a LGBT lead character has been well handled, Emily's relationships aren't given as much focus as the het pairings. Or maybe it's because her love interests keep disappearing, IDK..

From the site that is running the poll:
7 Things We Want To See on The Secret Circle When It Returns From Hiatus

The_Void

Yeah, I think American shows are generally more scared about doing gay/lesbian storylines and tend to hold back more. But I don't think the American audience is any more averse to same-sex pairings than the British audience. I don't know much about how American channels work (I think PLL is on a sister-channel to ABC or something?) but I looked it up on wikipedia and PLL gets much higher ratings than TSC, about 30% more.

I don't watch Glee or PLL, so I can't comment on how sidelined they are. But these ratings to me suggest that most people don't care if a character is gay, I don't think they would start to care if they got more focus. I wish American networks would actually realise this. There's actually very little danger in doing a gay storyline. The ratings will not suffer. There just seems to be this aversion or fear of it in the industry, and it's completely baseless.