I come from a very wobbly position at the whole queer subtext issue, but YES. Yes, that, exactly, particularly having switched from Torchwood, which is yay, canon slash, to Merlin, which is not yay, not canon slash. And I find it hard to watch it, hear actors and producers rave about the subtext, and then have these little niggly scenes that they keep putting in with Arthur/Gwen, that I don't want because I have a very pesky relationship with the characters whereby I can't decide who I want to shag and who I want to be (to put it blunty.) And Merlin has a seriously debatable relationship with female characters, and that rubs me the wrong way, too, and argh! I feel a bit bad about this, because I suspect part of the reason I'd personally like gay heroes on tv is that it forces writers to stop writing characters like the audience can be divided into two groups, the ones that want to shag the hero, and the ones that want to be the hero. Gay heroes turn that on its head, and it means that I, as a woman, am not constantly torn between gender and sexuality lines. But it also means I'm appropriating something much more important, well said by the person you linked to -- that it's something people will have to think about, face up to -- for my own personal ends.

Argh. I barfed all over your journal. Sorry about that. I fear there may be a thoughts post on this in the future :(.