Kevin and Julia sittin' in a tree: The "Brothers & Sisters" kiss you didn't want to see

hmm.

Either that or the higher ups at ABC has sent down a de-gaying order.

I really hate storylines like this.  All gays have to try it once, right?  Well, Kevin's in his thirties and already married to a man, so it's a little late for experimentation.

One or some of the following will happen:

1. She'll become pregnant.

2. It will turn out to be a dream sequence.

3. He'll try to hide it from Scotty but someone will blurt it out at yet another family gathering.

4. He'll have an "Am I really gay?" crisis.

5. Etc., etc., etc.

There's been no "de-gaying order." 

The title of the episode should be clue enough as to what is going on here.  Kevin's subconscious is just working through the knowledge that he and Julia "conceived" a child. 

It's part of a storyline about Kevin's feelings about fatherhood coming to the fore, not an "Am I gay?" storyline.

(And even putting aside the absurdity of Kevin really kissing a woman, the fact it's his sister in law should tell you enough it's a dream.)

This can't be anything less than a nightmare sequence for Kevin and he'll end up waking up in a cold sweat screaming, or it will end up being one in the next few episodes when the whole thing gets blurted out in front of Scotty and then the whole you "cheated on me with that will ensue".....  the most intelligent response I can at this very moment come up with after seeing this is EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW!  LOL!

Could this actually be insecure (impotent) Tommy's fantasy, dream (nightmare) sequence knowing that his gay brother can father a chilld, but he can't - and therefore, his wife and Kevin share something, and in Tommy's confused and angry subconscious this somehow equates to sex?   Probably overanalyzing .. lol! 

#1 I don't believe this is degaying or that Matthew Rhys asked for a straight kiss. He kisses women in real life, he doesn't care about whether it happens on the show. Few straight actors on TV have ever been as supportive of gay affection as he has been.

#2 B&S has been better about showing affection between men than most other shows, but I still can't help being annoyed we get more here than we ever got with Kevin and Scotty, or Kevin and Jason, or Kevin and Chad.

#3 Tommy sucks, and blows. I'm sick of the show's constant attempts to make us side with him.

#4  Matthew Rhys has a HOT HOT HOT ass. If I were the actress who plays Julia I might ask if I could grab it during one of the scenes...just for realism, you know. 

WTF, THEY'RE MAKING KEVIN STRAIGHT?  THIS IS AN OUTRAAAGE!

...haha, i can't believe some people have fallen for these photos. like ABC would really be that stupid.

My bet is that this is a dream sequence.  Or a nightmare sequence as the case may be.

My reasoning being that Julia looks just a tad too enthusiastic about these goings-on for it to a be just an hiccup in Kevin's homosexuality.  While I'm sure the poor dear would do almost anything to get more air time at this point, I somehow think that this stretches it. While we know Julia is not above a little adultery I would expect that she has the sense not to do it within the boundaries of the No Secrets Walker Family. So even disallowing Kevin having had his Gay Gland accidentally removed during the surgery, I see one of two options here:

1) This is Kevin's dream/nightmare(?) about what it would be like if he were the hetero son William would have wanted.

2) This is Tommy's nightmare. In this last episode it was really drilled into him that Kevin is Elizabeth's bio-daddy and not him. Tommy has a fragile ego to begin with (trying to be William II and largely failing, especially in the sperm count department). If post-operative Kevin started to express an interest in having a greater role in Elizabeth's life I could easily see Tommy freaking out. The result could be a nightmare in which Kevin steals everything from him, his daughter and his wife.

Thus my bet is on #2. While Kevin has a big enough ego to imagine that Julia would be totally into getting busy, I have a hard time imagining him having a dream about doing her on the sofa in Robert's office. If he did have such a dream I would expect he'd wake up screaming (I know I would!). Also, we've seen in the past how Kevin gets nervous even at a little flirting in his workplace. So it would be a major character shift for him to suddenly be willing to try and score his sister-in-law in an office full of Republican senatorial staffers.

I'm thinking this is Tommy's nightmare. Because the worst thing he could imagine would not only be Julia cheating with his (gay) brother (talk about emasculating!), but that she would be really into it (as appears to be the case in the pics).

But this is likely Kevin's dream, not real life.  Dreams by their nature are often wildly exaggerated and "out of character."  They are rarely a reflection of reality, but rather are ways our subconscious works out difficult emotions.

My guess is that it's as simple as Kevin's psyche going into overdrive (since finding out he is Elizabeth's bio father) and translating that fact into the above scenario.  After all, Kevin "conceived" a child with Julia, and what's the most typical way of achieving conception?  Sex. 

And, yeah, I'd bet Kevin does wake up pretty freaked out. ;)

I dont get why people are already freaking out! Judging by the title of the episode, this is obviously a dream sequence, though I'm interested to find out WHOSE dream this is actually, LOL. ;)

Anyways, the pics are really hot!

Well, after the network went along with killing the single transgender character actually historically played by a real transgendered person this month on "Dirty Sexy Money" in yet another pointless, brutal murder of a GLBT character and after the weird gay purge that seems to be going on over at "Grey's Anatomy," I wouldn't put anything past 'em at this point.

Still, it's obviously a dream sequence, as it fits exactly with the last episode's discovery that Kevin's the baby's actual father, and if Tommy is dreaming, as the title implies, then that's what's gonna be on his mind.

Has anyone realized that this whole controversy is exactly what ABC wanted to happen? The show is off air for three weeks so there needed to be something to keep it on people's minds for that time. I'd say this will do it..

I doubt that Matthew demanded a straight kiss, he doesn't seem to care too much about that. Quite to the contrary, when he speaks of the K/S marriage, he seems very genuinely proud of being allowed to portray Kevin.

I also doubt that he would object to steamier scenes between Kevin/Scotty. And I believe that those scenes could be hotter then anyone else's, because Luke and Matthew have a chemistry between them.

I am curious how this scene will play out. The pictures are nice though.