In fairness, it does have a full minute more to show clips, but I notice that his gay roomie has magically reappeared, PoCs get speaking time, and Ramona is shown correcting the ‘evil exes’ bit.

Seems like no foul to me. Perhaps a bit of “oh, haha, that’s what you meant?”, but that’s in the movie itself and they’re not trying to hide it.

@Sady: I didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t worth talking about, period, but that I’d think the course of talking about it should more likely produce a “huh, yeah, look at that” rather than a “OMG Serious Problem™!” I very much enjoy the Liz Lemon posts, both the sections of them that veer towards seriousness and the sections that veer towards sheer silliness.

I do think it is bad that gay people don’t get good exposure in both advertisements and in the movies/shows/games that those advertisements advertise. It certainly warrants a Serious Problem™ blog post (not that you need my approval or anything ). But I do not think Scott Pilgrim is the best flagship trailer for that particular type of blogpost.

If we’re looking for ways to change Hollywood that maximize the power of the Gay (i.e. Basic Fairness for people in general) Agenda, I think it’s better to get more traditional advertisements (the kind that show happy families drinking Coke or whatever) that just happen to show happy families with gay people in the. For movies/shows that feature positively-presented-but-not-central-to-the-plot gay people, it seems to me that warning homophobes about them in advance is counterproductive.