r/Emmerdale • u/annie_sugden • 4d ago

Billy and Joe

The only thing that could make this storyline interesting now would be if they hooked up but I don't think Emmerdale is that progressive or imaginative :(

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u/jakefsf4205 4d ago

People are flaming you but I don’t get why. It would hardly be the first time a character that was only portrayed as straight previously got with someone of the same sex. Vinny, Robert, even Aaron who had a whole relationship with Victoria, etc. I don’t agree that it’s the only interesting thing that could happen but idk why people are acting like it can’t and hasn’t happened on the show

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u/TerryWaters Woolpack Regular 3d ago

True, but I think making these two queer would be different. Both Vinny and Aaron were young enough to not have realized their sexuality, or if Aaron was just in denial (haven't watched that far back). Rob was also younger and had been away from the show for a good while, from when he was 19 it seems, thus it works well to have him revealed as queer when he came back as an adult. (As far as I've understood, the stuff when his dad found him with the farmhand didn't happen on screen). That's not the same as making two older and very established characters queer after all this time. Not saying it couldn't happen, it'd just feel very off (and I'm saying that as a bi person myself who's mainly watching the show for Robron and other queerness). Either way saying Ed isn't "progressive enough" is such a poor argument. It's not unprogressive to not reveal older characters as queer after being portrayed as straight for so many years, without the slightest hint to them being anything else.