Well said, Buckeye. When I first started reading folks talking about a possible "conspiracy theory", I almost spit my coffee out all over my desk. I had to re-read it and couldn't believe my eyes!
Folks, yes I suppose it's possible that someone could hack into other peoples' member profile and start typing posts disguised as someone else, but...come on people!
Yes, it's true that if something really flops in the business world, it's only natural they're going to go out and do some sort of damage control, but really?
While this scene seems to be quite unpopular by many, it's certainly not among the lowest rated scenes in
Broke Straight Boys history. I think the lowest
Broke Straight Boys scene rating I remember was a 1.8 (the one starring Jimmy and Vinnie, in the "feet episode"). But this Jimmy and Colin scene is actually currently rated at 3.4 the last time I checked, which is a mid C on the A B C D F (1-2-3-4-5 stars) classification. That's not even a C- nor is it approaching a D.
Colin put a positive spin on it, after all he is one of the performers in the scene and he's a newer performer. He probably feels terrible that everyone posting about it hates it so much, and he may feel that reflects on him as a performer. Which of course I think most of us agree that Colin is awesome and we love him!
Colin, I think you did an amazing job in this scene. It was just hard for me to watch because it did seem like you were really hating it, and I am not at all into watching people visibly hate sex (I know you came, but still. It was still painful for me to watch and I couldn't watch much of it at all because I was afraid you were in pain which I don't at all enjoy watching).
Jimmy, I can appreciate and respect that you guys were attempting to try something different, but seriously. I think you would be doing yourself a huge favor by being kinder, gentler, nicer in your scenes especially after this. Yes, we know you're not gay and you don't get into sex with guys. But you scored HUGE points with would be fans in some of your previous scenes when you were nice to them (asking if they're ok, trying to go easy on them, stuff like that).
To be honest who I am the least impressed by, and the most disappointed in with this scene, is Clay the director. As the director, you pretty much run the scene and decide how it needs to go and need to have some sort of instincts as to what the general member base might think of a scene and how it will be received by the viewers. It appears Clay was in on the overall theme of the scene before it started, and apparently had zero instincts regarding how the members might react to it. Instead of suggesting that it probably wouldn't be a good idea to do a scene like this with Jimmy, who many members are really trying to like (and are struggling with it), and Colin, a relative newbie who people really love and adore, he apparently just let it go on and we now have many people pretty unhappy with the end result. Clay, what were you thinking? If you're just trying to generate drama, I guess you succeeded. If you were trying to stop people from being upset and unhappy with the direction of these scenes, I would say not so much.
Jimmy I am a fan of yours, and I normally enjoy watching you perform. You are hot, you are funny, you are witty, and I think you really are a nice guy for real. But seriously, perception is everything. Especially in this industry!
To those of you who won't stop complaining about Jimmy, have you stopped and considered that perhaps Jimmy has a signed contract of exclusivity with BluMedia, and he may be locked in to a certain number of scenes or a certain amount of time before his contract expires (if there is one, which I have no idea if there is or not). If that's the case, Jimmy has to perform a certain amount of work in order to fulfill the remainder of his contract. Who is to say that he will remain once such a contract, if there is one, runs out.
If Jimmy enjoys his work here, I would think that he would want to please the most members as possible, as quickly as possible, because deadlines and contract renewals have a way of running themselves out and not being renewed if there is a justifiable reason, and a business decision has to be made.