Brothers & Sisters



This show has a vitality to it. Most prognosticators would have given it a very short shelf life given the many changes it absorbed from the onset. Watching it from the beginning and participating in its progression, it is to see how it it keeps growing and changing without losing its identity.

Perhaps it is because of the powerful Scorpio nature of the creativity involved. There are at least four Scorpios involved in this show: Jon Robin Baitz, Sally Field, Matthew Rhys, and Callista Flockhart. Scorpio energy has much to do with regeneration and rebirth as well as daring-do and calculated risks.




With the addition of Rob Lowe and since January the stories had taken on a lighter air up until last evening when a high dose of angst returned to the plot. What has been consistent is the way Kevin, the gay sibling is written and that may the calculated risk. There seems to be no compunction for the character to participate in full on kissing with his boyfriends as evidenced once again in the last episode's last scene with Kevin and Chad. Kevin is going head on into a relationship he knows will end badly. Chad is that dream man that many await only to discover that he is highly flawed when he does show up and so many still can't turn away from him. Kevin invited him in just as one invites a vampire in. That's how a vampire gets power over you. This plot line of the actor in the closet seems to be relevant these days. The point was also made about how actors flit back and forth between their male lovers and then seek refuge in their beards.



The creative team has not turned away from this sexual aspect of Kevin's life in the persistence associated with fixed signs like Scorpios and it is this persistence that makes this show a landmark gay TV experience. This is no tease like Nip/Tuck nor a joke like Rescue Me nor the straight fantasy of what silly gay people are like on Will & Grace. Kevin has flaws just like the rest of his family and has a life like the rest of his family.

Ken Olin and Greg Berlanti are not Scorpios but neither are strangers to good story telling and perhaps as has been suggested before, Olin learned from the gay story experience on Thirtysomething when the same network caved into ignorance.

Much of the effort was put into this show during 2006 when the beneficial aspects of Jupiter were vibrating through Scorpio. It would be safe to say that this is part of the natal chart of this show and indicates that its life will be enjoyed as the fulfillment of its creative ambitions and the quenching of its intellectual thirst. Perhaps the same could be said of Mr. Baitz and his Scorpio actors.

There's something special happening on this show. It's hoped that Nielsen will bear this out.

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