OK, so the finale sucked.  I noticed that the writers for this episode were the original creators.  From what I can tell they are not the regular writers.  That is just to say that the writing for this episode was just awful.  The last show was just a miserable failure.

That aside, I am grateful for the show.  I have noticed how conveniently so many bloggers complain about this show.  (See Malcontent for a sampling.)  But, in the end, I know we will miss it.

Nothing has even comes close on television.

I distinctly remember back in 1998 reading in a magazine about this upcoming, groundbreaking, new show.  Unfortunately, I was the real Will Truman at the time.  I worked for a big NYC law firm, and there was never a Thursday night that I was home from the office before 10 p.m.

It was only when I moved to Seattle years later that I was able to enjoy the show as part of the exteneded happy hour at the Manray.  I can tell you that the Gays were so happy to receive the show.  Laughs were perhaps exaggerated, and I think everyone was simply glad to have 30 minutes to see some part of their lives and humor reflected.  It was somehow validating.

Besides that, it was just funny.

I am tired of hearing about the stereotypes and how faggy Jack is.  As my husband always says, it is simply better that we are shown to all the world, for better or worse.  Whether it be the go-go boy on the pride float or the accountant at KPMG.  In other words, all publicity is good pubilicty.

When the history of Gay liberation is written (hopefully before I die), Will & Grace will certainly be mentioned.  I remember a quote, roughly, from Megan Mullally (aka Karen Walker).  She said, paraphrasing:  Of course, it’s popular, the show makes fun of Gays, which is appreciated equally by the Gays and the truckdrivers from Oklahoma. 

We may have been the butt of the joke, but at least we were visible.  We showed we could laugh at ourselves.  We showed we have lives that are real and just as F’d up as everyone else’s. 

And that was a step in the right direction.  We were no longer invisible.  And we were invisible.  I think that is what may not be undestood even eight short years later.  And that is a good thing.  Now we have higher standards.  But who or what will take its place?

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