This episode seemed liked it was really going to explore gender, sexuality and attraction among men in a really new way. My husband and I were watching this thinking it was going to be one of the best episodes of the whole show. Then it felt like it copped out. Sure it could be read that they intentionally wanted to show how realistically men are closed off to those thoughts. But they probably were too afraid to go any further and explore what the use of the player characters might truly mean.