“Caprica”‘s Jane Espenson: “It’s Time For Sexuality to be Incidental”

AfterElton.com has just done an interview with Jane Espenson, the Executive Producer of ‘Caprica’, who also wrote for ‘Buffy’ and ‘Battlestar Galactica’.

In the interview, she touches on gay themes within the series and in sci-fi.

At that point, we used the word gay. I actually tried to avoid using it after that, because I think that’s a word from our world, and I feel like in this world [of Caprica], it wouldn’t be a word. People fall in love with who they fall in love with. Why do you have to have a different word for who they fall in love with? Having a different word for a same-sex relationship struck me as something this culture wouldn’t have thought of since those relationships were just considered on a par and unremarkable.

You can read the full article at AfterElton.com