Harry/Ron on The Soup!

[emmagrant01]

Last night, cenas_plots posted that she'd seen this, and I flipped channels just in time to record it! It's a clip from the TV show The Soup, which put together a little Harry/Ron vid -- and it's hilarious. God, the porn music in the background had me rolling! No major spoilers for the film, unless you're really anal and haven't even watched trailers.

Check it out! (Link updated 1/11/06)

All right, time to fess up -- which one of y'all works for that TV show and is responsible for this, huh? ;-)

Comments

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I just love the fact that the slashiness was so obvious that people outside of fandom even noticed!

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

The more I think about this, the unsettled and possibly angry I'm getting.

My initial reaction was whoa, that's really blatant and kind of heavyhanded if it was made by a slasher. Interesting, but I got a sinking feeling deep in my gut watching it. Thinking about it more, I think I've figured out why I had that reaction, what my gut is trying to bring to my attention.

This vid is shown on regular TV as a ha-ha isn't this funny parody. Gay is OK as long as everyone gets a big commercialized laugh out of it. As long as everyone laughs, oh heavens how over the top and shock-value and amusing it all is.

Of course no actual teens could ever be going through near-suicidal crises over things like this. Of course angst about coming out to those you care about is something to be laughed about in a studio audience where the bright lights wash all sense of reality away. Of course no one would ever really be disowned or beaten by their homophobic fathers because they'd do anything for their best friend and have begun having sexual feelings for them. And of course no parent watching the show would ever have a gay or transgendered child.

And fanfic authors are only acceptable to that same commercialized segment of society as long as we're writing parodies. Anything beyond that is a squick and a weirdness and asocial maladjusted fanatical behavior, something nice normal people would never do.

Maybe it's just my headache this morning, and I fully admit that I'm not feeling well partially because there were drunken morons waking me up at all hours... but this is really sticking in my craw.

Ugh.

0_o

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It was just meant to be funny, and not as a social commentary. The segment followed a Michael Jackson joke and a segment comparing Paris Hilton to a raccoon, for fuck's sake. This is The Soup -- not exactly highbrow journalism. It's crack, at best.

And I don't think anyone would truly confuse this video clip parody and a novel-length work of slash fanfic.

Re: 0_o

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

Confuse, no, that's not what I meant... I'm just tired of slashy relationships in canon appearing so often in mainstream media only as cracktastic jokes. Intention or no, what cultures choose as their humor is social commentary.

I'm frustrated and have been for a while by society's general tendency to lump queer subtext in with mocking humor, as something to poke fun at. This sort of humor about any topic has never been something I've been terribly comfortable with, though, and that's totally my own issue.

I'm sorry, I'll go now.

Re: 0_o

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I do understand where you're coming from, but I don't think it's fair to hold up this particular show as representative of the mainstream media's (and larger society's) attitudes about homosexuality. This is the sort of show that makes fun of everyone and everything, sometimes in quite cruel ways, and yet this segment was done with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge sort of flavor.

I disagree that it was mocking homosexuality or the troubles of gay teenagers; moreover, I don't think that was even their intention. I think it was simply a case of the show pointing out the very obvious Harry/Ron subtext of the film, in the way they do best.