As heartbreaking as last week's episode of The Carrie Diaries was, I really have to applaud the show's realism with the subject of AIDS, especially for that time period. I'm also relieved that neither Walt nor Bennet have it.
In all honesty, as much as I'm interested in things like old newscasts and documentaries; seeing either old footage from around AIDS was first discovered or seeing documentaries which focus on that subject from that time always infuriate me. That was such a scary time. People were dying. There were so many misconceptions about it, so many rumors, and so much lack of general knowledge about how you can get it; which totally explains Walt's freak out at the club. There was also a lack of people realizing that ANYONE could get it, no matter who they are. Bigoted homophobes used it as an opportunity to demonize gays. Especially considering the fact that gay people were one of the first groups of people that it was first discovered.
I'm pretty confident that Walt will come around. I think he's going to need time to calm down. As sad as it was to see Walt break things off, I can't blame him for being scared out of his mind. I'm sure he'll just need time to think things over and come to the conclusion that no matter how scared he gets of living life as an openly gay man, he can never change the fact that he is gay. I am also confident that Walt and Bennet will reconcile. For one thing, they've been through too much at this point to just end and secondly, they're TOO cute together!
