On Monday night’s Huge, we’re shown Alistair (played by Harvey Guillen) understands he’s the token not-straight kid at camp when he’s quizzed about his sexuality by Piznarski. But it’s all part of a practical Truth Or Dare joke played by the cool kids just so they can see the two guys kiss. And it’s a betrayal of Alistair by his new straight jock Trent friend betrays him! (Spoilers ahead.)
In the first clip you’ll see the lead up and execution of the prank — which Trent (played by Stefan Van Ray), who befriend Alistair last week, has a part in. So too does Alistair’s twin sister Chloe, except she still hasn’t told anybody that they’re related because she’s so embarrassed by him. She’s the one crying at the end of the scene. (In the cool kids’ game of T&D, Chloe and Amber kiss, so there’s the faux-lesbian aspect to all this too.)
And then everybody starts feeling bad about it. Which they should! ‘Cause that was mean! Except the turmoil it’s caused doesn’t last beyond the episode, as we see everything smoothed over by an apology from Trent (which the camera doesn’t show) and a buddy-buddy chat with Ian (played by Ari Stidham) at the end. So how come Alistair was so easily able to forgive Trent for goofin’ him in front of his friends?
Duh. Because Alistair is in love with him.
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mojojojo
Looks like mating season in the hippo enclosure at Bush Gardens!
Sceth
Probably applicable to most gay-milieu news articles, but here’s a nice quote from one Joss Whedon:
“Faith in god means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.”
Things like this are part of that ‘[evidence] to the contrary.’
Andrew
Wow, the first comment is by a catty queen. How original. Yawn.
Kudos to Huge for at least showing a different sort of diversity on television. Not all us gays can be Brian Kinney.
hephaestion
Whoever wrote the article above needs to go back to 4th grade. It has loads of grammatical errors in it…
“it’s all part of a practical Truth Or Dare joke”
“it’s a betrayal of Alistair by his new straight jock Trent friend betrays him!”
“So too does Alistair’s twin”
“who befriend Alistair last week”
TonyD
Alistair handles it with grace, even when humiliated, and I would have killed for friends like his in high school that had his back and supported him afterward.