Thread:Gilgameshkun/@comment-36587160-20190508142204/@comment-995426-20190509020710

Heh, "Hypstone." Funny thing is, I correctly guessed where there might be a point of dispute, and that's when Warren Stone said "brother," and only because a lot of people take that term too literally all the time. Men frequently call each other "brother" or "bro" when they're not related and not in the same family, because they see themselves as part of a social brotherhood. I've known gay couples where men call each other "bro" as a term of endearment. When Warren said Hypno was his "brother," and was about to say something else ("He's my&mdash;"), I knew that was an expression of profound love between men. That is something that can exist among siblings, but it's no less true for "it's complicated." And yeah, it was obvious...they wouldn't have named this episode after a playground rhyme about romance, and dropped every other reference and easter egg, if they weren't deliberately trying to drive the point home.

This may sound strange, but the gayest moment in the episode, to me? Hypno taking Warren home, wanting to watch bad TV with him. So many of the other gay moments were tried and true stock tropes in storytelling, practically to the point of being cliché. But how often do cliché love stories celebrate the shared mundane? It seemed less significant that they watch the bad TV, and more significant that they did that together, likely at home, just as the two of themselves, with the implication that it's a profoundly comfortable and cherished situation to be in. Points if they watch that bad TV while eating a bowl of scorched popcorn or from the same carton of Ben & Jerry's. Anyone can act like an epic romantic, but what are they going to do the rest of the time but live the ordinary moments of their lives?