Queerbaiting / Slashbaiting

[erilyn]

Yo, what are some good examples of queerbaiting / slashbaiting fans (eg shows/TPTB try to have their cake and eat it too, by appealing to fans who want to see non-heterosexual characters/couples/storylines, but without actually, you know, making it canon)?

Looking for both specific stuff within narrative or external (interviews/cons/promos etc), any help appreciated :)

Comments

[veronamay.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, a lot of the things I'm thinking of are situations that lend themselves to queer interpretation rather than queerbaiting as we know it. But there's an episode that deals with the murder of a gay cop that's pretty interesting, and the one that has the two of them going on vacation together, and the one where a woman tries to come between them and they choose their relationship over her, and the many episodes where one of them is deathly ill and the other frantically tries to find a cure before time runs out, and the one ... well, you get the idea. There's a lot of emphasis on the two of them against the world, and the one time either of them has a serious girlfriend, she has a terminal illness and she demands that the other one looks after him when she's gone.