phil tandy miller: totally and completely 100% straight, no interest in men here at all
y’know no-one asked for meta but Phil having a well-hidden, well-suppressed attraction to men makes so much sense, especially since it comes to the rift between him and Mike
like, Mike is basically a dumb immature frat boy who just happens to also be a space and science genius, he’s constantly ribbing Phil because that’s what he does and what Phil does back. you look at him and and you listen to the stuff he says (”this is you and me just goofing off”) and it’s obvious he has no idea whatsoever how cruel some of his remarks are.
(i’m honestly not sure this would have worked with an actor other than Jason Sudeikis)
anyway, the bit where Mike brings up the football player that Phil was apparently stalking, that makes Phil really rattled and it just – makes me wonder. we’re told Phil and Mike fell out over a girl but I always thought there had to be more to it than that, since the girl in question is never even mentioned again. maybe it wasn’t that. maybe Mike just said the wrong or the stupid thing at the wrong time, having no idea it was hurtful, just as he does when he brings up Phil’s “boner” for another dude. hahaha! it’s one of those weird things Phil just does!
like, having a brother who makes fun of your hygiene and general slobbishness, that’s one thing. Having a brother who makes fun of a part of yourself you desperately want to hide –
– that’s definitely another.
@wackd @shenanigaining @theelectricorgan I want bi Phil so damn much
This makes me really curious about his fascination with Lewis – which I can put down to just Phil being Phil, but his reaction as Lewis tries his best to say ‘I Am A Gay Man’ takes on some more weight I guess? Again, so much of what he does is also just down to the fact that that’s the kind of guy he is, he goes out of his way to help people and sometimes in the process he gets directly in their way (and doesn’t seem to realize it), but he’s so adamant that Lewis and Mark get their happy ending, and maybe there’s some subconscious part of him that’s clinging to that for reasons other than helping Lewis?
(Now I kind of want a scene where Phil reveals he’s bi and Lewis is just like ‘Yep’. And Phil is all ‘I know this comes as a massive shock to you’ and Lewis takes a long breath because he sees how this is going to play out and is just like ‘Yes. Big shock. Total surprise.’)
(Also I can imagine someone who’s never watched this show looking at this gifset and not knowing the dude in the two bottom left gifs are the same dude) (The apocalypse changes people. Phil Miller became a chameleon. And embraced his sexuality.)
yes yes YES agreed SO MUCH on the Lewis thing, Phil was so excited when he found out he was gay…
I can just picture there being a scene when circumstances lead to Phil saying to the whole group something like, “We’ll never judge Lewis for wanting to bang dudes. Wanting to bang dudes is natural. I’ve wanted to bang dudes every now and again” and Lewis and Carol have to gently take him aside and explain what bisexuality is and that it actually has a name.
(Granted, this is Phil, it might take a lot of metaphors and examples before he fully understood. But then he would *epically* embrace it.)