I remembered my elation when I viewed Queer As Fol

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   """I distinctly remember my elation when I first viewed the original UK version of Queer As Folk'. For one of the first times, our lives were the storylines and we were being shown in an honest way - just as human beings living our lives the best way we know how. Sometimes brutally honest though - some of the subject matter even made me cringe! But it was positive as the stereotypical views of the gay man and woman were being challenged. Then news started filtering out that the US were planning on making their own version of Queer As Folk. Alot of people, me included, were very sceptical about this. The US doesn't have a high success rate when taking a successful UK format and developing it for US audiences.

So when the first season on Showtime's Queer As Folk began airing in Australia in June 2002, I didn't have the elation that I felt with the UK version. And when I actually began watching the first episode, I was appalled. I thought 'this is one bad show'. Obviously being a fan of the UK version, the characters, actors and settings were fresh in my mind and it was natural to compare. And the US version came off a very poor second. But I continued watching, as I was advised by a friend that it gets better. After the first 3 episodes, my opinion hadn't changed. The storylines were almost identical to the UK version, even some of the dialogue was identical. But then something happened. The original UK storylines were diverged and new ones added and it started to become a whole new show. Where the UK version finished,the characters were developed within such wonderful, honest sotrylines that I also became elated at this version of Queer As Folk. So persistance does pay."""

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	"""I distinctly remember my elation when I first viewed the original UK version of Queer As Folk'. For one of the first times, our lives were the storylines and we were being shown in an honest way - just as human beings living our lives the best way we know how. Sometimes brutally honest though - some of the subject matter even made me cringe! But it was positive as the stereotypical views of the gay man and woman were being challenged. Then news started filtering out that the US were planning on making their own version of Queer As Folk. Alot of people, me included, were very sceptical about this. The US doesn't have a high success rate when taking a successful UK format and developing it for US audiences. So when the first season on Showtime's Queer As Folk began airing in Australia in June 2002, I didn't have the elation that I felt with the UK version. And when I actually began watching the first episode, I was appalled. I thought 'this is one bad show'. Obviously being a fan of the UK version, the characters, actors and settings were fresh in my mind and it was natural to compare. And the US version came off a very poor second. But I continued watching, as I was advised by a friend that it gets better. After the first 3 episodes, my opinion hadn't changed. The storylines were almost identical to the UK version, even some of the dialogue was identical. But then something happened. The original UK storylines were diverged and new ones added and it started to become a whole new show. Where the UK version finished,the characters were developed within such wonderful, honest sotrylines that I also became elated at this version of Queer As Folk. So persistance does pay.""" ------------------------ stardvdcity The Sopranos DVD 1-6 Monk DVD 1-8 Queer As Folk DVD 1-5 Law and Order DVD 1-10 Two and a Half Men DVD 1-7 One Tree Hill DVD 1-7 Doctor Who DVD 1-5 Bones DVD 1-5 Desperate Housewives DVD 1-6 The Big Bang Theory DVD 1-3 The Vampire Diaries DVD Ghost Whisperer DVD 1-5 How I Met Your Mother DVD 1-5 Gossip Girl DVD 1-3 Brothers and Sisters DVD 1-4 Alias DVD 1-5 House MD DVD 1-6 Smallville DVD 1-9 Navy NCIS DVD 1-7 Supernatural DVD 1-5 Criminal Minds DVD 1-5 South Park DVD 1-13 The Tribe DVD 1-5 The Office DVD 1-6 Scrubs DVD 1-9