Didn't he leave Heroes too?
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Bryan Fuller quits Amazing Stories
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He wasn't the showrunner on Heroes; Tim Kring was. It was one of several shows that Fuller was let go from, and it seemed at the time that it was because of homophobic execs' resistance to his efforts to include gay/lesbian characters.
That's Bryan Singer. And he's back in charge of the X-Men movies now.
If it doesn't directly relate to the story, IMO, announcing a character's sexuality is just pandering. Makes me no difference, but some people think it's important. 
If it doesn't directly relate to the story, IMO, announcing a character's sexuality is just pandering. Makes me no difference, but some people think it's important.
But are we going to apply that same standard to "announcing" that characters are straight as well? Because, you know, people almost never do. Pretty sure most American TV series waste no time establishing that the protagonists are straight by introducing their significant others, potential love interests, exes, etc. And nobody complains that a show is "pandering" by giving the hero a crush on the girl next door or whatever.
Just look at TNG. By the end of "Farpoint," we knew that Riker and Troi had a past, that Picard and Crusher had some sort of unspoken sexual tension between them, etc. By Episode 2, Tasha was bonking Data, who we were explicitly informed was fully functional, and most everybody else was drooling over each other in brazenly heterosexual ways. Kinda hard to miss that what their sexual orientations were.
Was that pandering?
And, as I recall, HEROES had no shortage of romantic subplots, triangles, soap operas, etc. But it's "pandering" if you make a point of including gay characters along with usual romantic angst that most every TV show includes from Day One?
My interest in this just shot way up, OUAT is one of my favorite shows.
I thought this was funny in light of all the recent Fuller news:
http://deadline.com/2018/05/bryan-f...revival-roseanne-cancellation-abc-1202399448/
Would he even last until airtime?
http://deadline.com/2018/05/bryan-f...revival-roseanne-cancellation-abc-1202399448/
Would he even last until airtime?
After all that ABC went through with Rosanne Barr; I'm pretty certain ANY Exec at ABC that gives Fuller the time of day would be shown the door.
How does the one situation have anything to do with the other? Barr was fired because she was publicly engaged in blatant hate speech. She made herself toxic to decent human beings through behavior that had nothing to do with her actual work, and thereby made others unwilling to work with her. Whatever has led to Fuller's employment woes of late, it doesn't seem to involve any public misbehavior or any kind of hateful attitudes on his part.
^ Not because of Roseanne but because he was offering to replace her series with a revival of Pushing Daisies, the joke being his track record of late with sticking to projects hence the last line of my comment.
^Oh, sorry. I didn't actually read the link. 
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