Bromances

There are some bromances I really would like to become true love. I want to tell you about them. I have four of them. I would have liked to have five, because it's such an even uneven number, but I can only think of four, so you will get four.

Raj and Stuart aka Kunal Nayyar and Kevin Sussman.

4. Raj & Stuart - Big Bang Theory
First of all there's Raj Koothrappali and Stuart Bloom in Big Bang Theory. I guess there is some Raj/Howard shippers out there, but I like Raj and Stuart. They both were really tragical and patheticly, socially malajusted singles who bonded and created a really nice, and cute, friendship. Sadly Raj med a girl called Emily and and the bromance is now forgotten. Really sad because they were really cute and I think Big Bang Theory need something that breaks the heterosexual norm. A big disappointment but I am still hoping for a real romance.

Sherlock and Watson aka Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

3. Sherlock & Watson - Sherlock
Ok, comments are unnecessary. Thousands and thousands of Johnlock shippers around the world can't be wrong. I am not a hardcore Johnlock shipper, but I wouldn't complain. Some other time a will blog a bit about the porn...

Walden and Alan aka Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer.

2. Walden & Alan - Two and a half men
Ok, I am a bit more hardcore here. I absolutely think Walden and Alan of Two and a half men belong together. When I heard Charlie Sheen ahd left the show and would be replaced by Ashton Kutcher I really didn't believe it would work. I thought it would last no more than one season and that it would be really crappy. But it wasn't! Walden is a really lovable character and the show only got better when he joined it. And Alan and Walden has such a beautiful and mutual friendship that you just can't get enough of. And the last season was really divine when they took their relationship to a whole new level by getting married and adopting a child together. We even got some snogging! But I got really disappointed when they both started dating women again and got divorce. I was hoping until the end that they would confess to their relationship and getting together for real, but no. I was disappointed, but I am sure that they do love eachother the most enyway. Lindsey and miss McMartin means nothing when it comes to the crunch.

Ragnar and Athelstan aka Travis Fimmel and George Blagden.

1. Ragnar & Athelstan - Vikings
Ok, there is two reasons why I am still watching Vikings. One is that Travis Fimmel is so god damn good looking and one is the slightly homoerotical friendship between Ragnar and Athelstan. I really don't think it is a good series. The clothes are horrific, the plot is boring (fight, battle, fight) and the acting are just so ridiculous. Ok, they are trying, and I am sure they are great actors really, but the fake accents? Even Gustaf Skarsgård has one and he is Swedish! Ridiculous. But Ragnar and Athelstan... I am really surprised taht they have not jumped into the sack already. It's so clear that they love eachother. And I really do think the creators of the series should do something about it! We need to break the heteronorm in the Viking Age. The photo above is told to be from the first episode in season 3. It seems promising!

The BIG disappointment!

JO Weil as Oliver Sabel and Thore Schölerman as Christian Mann.

I am really really disappointed. So, Verbotene Liebe has come to an end as a daily soap but it will continue as a weekly series. And so I heard, Olli has made his last appearance in the show. And what a bullshit ending of an era! Really, Chrolli, Christian and Oliver that is, is one of the most important love stories in modern (soap) time I think. We all know Thore Schölermann left the show in 2012 because of the lack of interesting storylines for his character Christian Mann, and since then, the series became a lot more uninteresting. He made a very appreciated appearnce in 2013, but since then nothing. And the couple also went through with their second divorce in 2014. And seriously, Olli is no interesting without Christian and vice versa. No wonder the series lost viewers and got cancelled.

Mickey Hardt as Jo Helmke and Jo Weil as Oliver Sabel.

Ok, the creators of the series tried to keep it alive by giving Olli a crush on Sascha (Sascha Pederiva) and a new relationship with Jo Helmke, but it just didn't work. Sascha was straight and Jo was slimy. We all were just waiting for Christian to come back! But nothing. I'm asking, why take one of the most beautiful love stories of all time and end it with a banal sleaze story? I feel violated and insulted. At least it should had ended with the Olli going to England and to let us know he was reunited with Christian off screen, if Thore couldn't find time to join the show for a sunset ending. It my world it ends like that. Just sayin.

Christian & Olli forever and ever! And that's that!

Lovely Luke

Luke Newberry in Banana.

This thursday you could see Luke Newberry in Banana. And he was great as always! I think he is an absolutely amazing actor and he is such a sweatheart. I realized he has played gay in abot everything I've seen. He's gay in In the Flesh, at least Kieren's in a relationship with a man, or zombie, and that counts. He was gay in Suspects as well. And he was really great in it! He played a small part as a young policeman in Sherlock, but we were not told about his sexuality, but you can only imagine he was a bit bicurious at least. I've also seen him in Anna Karenina as Vasily Lukich. I can't remember anything about his preferences but he was Russian and let's not go there. I know nothing about Luke Newberry's sexuality and that is not relevant, but he really has been typecasted as gay. I don't mind!

Fifty shades of hay

Emmerdale know's how to do it! Who needs Gray when there's hay?

Ryan Hawley as Robert Sugden and Danny Miller as Aaron Livesy.

And if you like Danny Miller, or Aaron Livesy by all means, check out the adorable Valentines card the official Emmerdale account posted on Valentines Day!

Who would not pick this sweatheart?!

Love

Philipp Oehme, Jo Weil & Thore Schölermann.

Don't you just love this picture? I do. An what is just so peculiar with it is that the guy licking Joo Weil's ear is the actor Philipp Oehme who plays the part of Thore in Verbotene Liebe, and Thore is what the actor who plays Christian is called, and Christian used to be married to Olli, played by Jo, who is in the middle. Well, you get the picture!

Top three kissers

Ok, there are some good kissers. There are some kissers that are like "heh". There are some bad kissers... But let's concentrate on the real good kissers! Here are my to three:

Third place: Stendan - Hollyoaks

Kieron Richardson as Ste Hay and Emmett J. Scanlan as Brendan Brady.

There is really nothing to complain about in the Stendan kissing. There is just so much in them. It's mostly Emmett's effort. Well, passion and a great connection between the actors. I couldn't ask for more.


Second place: DeRo - Alles Was Zählt

Igor Dolgatschew as Deniz Özrürk and Dennis Grabosch as Roman Wild.

Ok, here is another couple with great connection. It is very obvious that the actors really like eachother. And DeRo has not only given us some of the greatest soap kisses ever, they have also given us the most steaming sex scene ever! I have to get back on that. In the picture you can se the guys first on screen kiss. And even Roman took Deniz by surprice, it was amazing! It's a real shame there won't be any more DeRo kisses...


And the winner: Chrolli - Verbotene Liebe

Thore Schölermann as Christian Mann and Jo Weil as Oliver Sabel.

Even though I am more of a DeRo-fan than a Chrolli-fan (but it is a close call), I have to say that there is actually no competition about the first place. Chrolli are, and will always be, te best kissers! And they will deliver us the best kisses. The picture shows us the kiss from my favourite scene that I have blogged about before and it is just so amazing! I don't know what they are doing, but there is something that just clicks. Me and my fiancé aren't even kissing that passionate, and I don't think we ever have. But here is a couple of actors that I know for a fact that they are good friends in private and that they do spend a lot of time together. And I really can't figure out why they don't bring Christian back now that Verbotene Liebe will come to an end... But if you would want to see the best Chrolli kiss ever, at least in my opinion, watch below:

Ok, there is no subtitles, but you don't need them. Just sit back and enjoy!

McDean

I felt McDean deserved an own post. I love McDean. Even though I love McHay as well. But it all started with McDean.

Guy Burnet as Craig Dean and James Sutton as John Paul McQueen.

It is a quite classic storyline with two troubled teenagers who becomes friends and does everything for eachother. They do everything from get into eachothers fights to dates two best girlfriends. Craig Dean, who is played by Guy Burnet, is dating Sarah Barnes and they have a quite stable relationship for som time. John Paul on the other hand, who we all know is a closeted gay is dating Hannah Ashworth, who is quite a goose actually. Very wimpy indeed. They are a bit on-and-off, because John Paul is not really enjoing the relationship, with all that implies (snogging and sex), because he is really in love with his best friend Craig. He actually tells him at one time because he can't bear it anymore, which leads to a bit of knot of the thread for his and Craig's friendship. They are also a bit on-and-off actually.

The first kiss.

But the strong friendship leads to a drunken kiss at a party which Hannah sees, and you can only imagine the rest. John Paul is actually wrongly to take the blame for the kiss because he is gay, but it is so obvious that it is Craig who kisses him. Well well...

Tom Vaughan as Spike and James Sutton as John Paul.

Nothing really happens though, cause Craig still dates Sarah and Johhn Paul meets his first boyfriend Spike, played by Tom Vaughan. I kind of like Spike. He s a nice guy. But Craig doesn't really like him and Hannah absolutely hates him! For no reason! But Craig is a bit jealous and it all leads up to him not being able to resist John Paul anymore, so they end up having sex. All on Craig's initiative.

Craig and John Paul after their first time.

Of course, Craig has a bit hard to handle what happened, and he seems a bit regretful. But it doesn't take long before the both has a secret relationship. But Craig's problem is he loves both John Paul and Sarah, and he is not able to choose. At last, he does choose John Paul theoreticly, but in practice. It goes so far as that Craig and Sarah gets engaged and John Paul makes her find out about him and Craig on their engagement party. And mayhem is on.

Craig and John Paul.

But it turns out well, because Craig is happy with his "choice" and he asks John Paul to move to Dublin with him, where he is going to study. But of course, no happiness lasts in Hollyoaks, John Paul doubts that Craig really love him because he can't show affection in public and he dumps him on the airport. It is all very sad. Craig gets to go to Dublin himself.

James Sutton and Jake Hendriks.

Back home in Hollyoaks, John Paul starts to have a secret relationship with the local priest Kieron Hobbs (Jake Hendriks). What's so shocking about that you might ask, but Kieron is a catholic priest and you all know about the chastity vow. Kieron is a quite nice man and a fun character, even though he is a priest, but he is quite boring as a bofriend I think. I mean, he is not Craig. But Craig comes back and John Pauls half brother Niall (long story) kills Kieron and John Paul has a hard time delaing with that. He even decides not to go with Craigto Dublin like he promised, because he is tormented with guilt. And he actually loved Kieron...

The sunset ending.

But John Paul changes his mind in the last minute and meets up with Craig at the train station and they get their sunset ending at last. And it could have ended like that. But it didn't. James Sutton went to Emmerdale for a while, but he had the good taste of returning to Hollyoaks after some years. Guy Burnet didn't so the story was told that Craig left John Paul just about as their baby (Matthew) was about to be born and John Paul slept with Brendan, dated Doug for a while, was Danny's dirty secret for a while before he ended up with Ste. And there we are now in a very messy HIV-storyline. I love John Paul and Ste together, and I really am a McHay shipper, but I am also a McDean shipper. But I've told you that before.

I really like the McDean storyline though. The story has just the right amount of agony as I like, and the actors, especially James Sutton, are brilliant! But Craig is straight though. He just fell i love with John Paul, an I guess it was expected that the love story would end. Sad though. And if fthe writers would like to reunite McDean in case of James Sutton and/or Kieron Richardson who plays Ste decieds to leave the show, I wouldn't be disappointed. Providing that also Stendan would be reunited of course. Beacause I am both a McDean, McHay and a Stendan shipper, and a sunset ending with any of the couples would make me satisfied. Or all of them, in some kind of poly relationship would do as well.

Ship names

There's a phenomenon called ship names. Of course, they are the combined names of OTP's, like Johnlock (John and Serlock from Sherlock), Brangelina (Brad and Angelina) and Matlingsworth (Maya Matlin and Miles Hollingsworth from Degrassi). The last couple I certainly do not ship, but you know all about that... There are some really good shipnames amongst the fictional gays. Some of the just makes perfectly sense.

Larias.

Larias (Lari and Elias from Salatut Elämät), Fervid (Fer and David from Física o Química) and Chrolli (Christian and Olli from Verbotene Liebe) are some really good examples. And it is very easy to be together with John Paul in Hollyoaks, because his lastname is McQueen, and everything works with a Mc; McHay, McCarter, MacDean, it just makes sense!

Cenny.

Some of the are not that great, but they work. Cenny (Carsten and Lenny from Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten), DeRo (Deniz and Roman from Alles Was Zählt) and WilSon (Will and Sonny from Days of our lives) are examples. I mean, Wilson is a real name. The current actor who plays Will actually has that as a surname, Guy Wilson. And he plays Will! You could get confused by less.

Aarson.

But. There really are som ship names that are horrible! Aarson is one. Aaron references to Aaron and Jackson in Emmerdale. And Aarson really sounds like an ass' son. Don't like it. And today I got to know that the official ship name of Lari and Kalle of Salatut Elämät is Lalle. Lalle?! That sounds rediculous. At least in my Swedish ears. But they couldn't be called Kari, because Kari is the homophobic relative of Elias That certainly wouldn't do. So I guess we're stuck with Lalle. But I for one would prefer Laitänen och Väänela instead. But I don't get to choose so... And they are not that perfect either... Is there some correlation between bad ship names and failed relationships you think?

The right choice!

Happy Lari and Kalle and sulking Elias.

Yes! Finally Lari made the right choice! I really am so over Larias. I've read lots of comments about Lari (Ronny Roslöf) and Kalle (Pete Lattu) and that they don't at all believe in the relationship and that Lari is uncomfortable with Kalle but I don't agree at all! I don't care if Lari used the same words as Elias did when he chose Miska (Juska Reiman), "I am with him because it is easy" or something, I genuinely think that he likes Kalle. He even said he loved him. And they looked realy happy and in love in the sofa. Elias (Petteri Paavola) is pathetic and he only has himself to blame because he dumped Lari first and Lari had the good taste to go for Kalle instead. Seriously, Larias is so 2013! Wake up, it is 2015 now, it's time fore Kalle!

Kevin vs Richie

Ok, three reasons why I ship Patrick with Kevin and not with Richie:

Russel Tovey.

1. Russell Toveys ears.
I prefer Russell Toveys ears to Raúl Castillo's every day of the week. Who wouldn't?!

Jonathan Groff and Russel Tovey.

2. It is so obvious that Patrick and Kevin are in love.
I mean, the cuddling, the sex, do I need to say more?! Kevin just has to dump his boyfriend.

Raúl Castillo as Richie.

3. Richie is just soooo boring!
I mean really, really boring! He is even more boring than Miska in Salatut Elämät! And Felix in General Hospital! And that is reaaallly boring!

Patrick and Kevin ftw!

Cucumber Banana Tofu

Channel 4 really delivers. They are not content just to show the best soap opera ever by the gay perspective, now they also give us Cucumber, Banana and Tofu!

So, Cucumber is the series with longest episodes. It figures around Henry Best (Vincent Franklin) and his friends and family i Manchester. At least that has been the perspective i the first two episodes. You'll never know what happens.

Well, Banana has shorter episodes and has different leading parts i every episode, but it still figures around Henry Best and the others. And look, third from the left. It is Luke Newberry! I can't wait for him turning up!

And then there's Tofu. That is actually a documentary series. With very short episodes. Just around 10 minutes, But it is quite nice and interesting. Lots of people, like some of the actors from Cucumber and Banana, adult film stars, writers and other loose people are talking quite openly about sex. I t´like all of the three series and think they are well worth watching. But I'm still really excited about Luke Newberry! Love love love him!