--- Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net
wrote:
Fiona said:
Fiona:
I once asked him [a gay friend] if he saw
any
of the gay subtext in
B7 which many fans say they do. He replied
that
he detected no sexual tension *at all*
between
Blake and Avon. OK, one man's opinion. He doesn't issue the imprimaturs for the Homintern though.
He's been around the gay community for over ten years-- I'd think in that time he'd've learned to recognise its members. He's certainly slept with enough of them :).
Willow and Tara hold hands, are seen moving into
a
flat together
(while Tara complains that she thinks Willow's
friends are uncomfortable
about them living together) and the sexual
subtext
of the scenes where they
cast spells are pretty obvious
Willow and Tara are a canonical couple--you don't have to look for subtext.
1) Well, yes and no. Willow and Tara are a couple-- but we don't see them in bed together (like we do the straight couples); we barely ever see them kiss. In the "Faith" episodes, Willow introduces Tara to Buffy/Faith as "my friend," not "my lover" (although Buffy/Faith gets the meaning). Most of what there is to indicate a relationship is things like spell-casting or handholding-- it's clear that there's a relationship there, but it's not made explicit like, say, with Buffy and Riley.
2) My point was, if you *want* to make it plain that a couple on a SF show are gay, you can, even without coming right out and yelling it to the heavens.
In fact they don't just act like a couple, there have been several episodes in which they say in so many words that they are lovers.
In the UK, BBC2's in the middle of Series 4 and Sky's about 4 episodes into Series 5, so I probably haven't seen those.
My point is, if the writers/actors/whoever had
intended the characters to
read as gay/involved, they could have done so.
But
they didn't. And don't forget that apart from anything else B7 was sometimes considered a kids' show which would limit exploration of any kind of sexual relationship with anybody.
If that's so, how come Blake's defense lawyer is seen in bed with his wife, and elsewhere it is made plain that Tarrant and Servalan (not to mention Avon and Anna) did a bit more than play travel Scrabble? Not to mention in the very first episode (which was banned in the USA for a long time for this very reason), Blake is accused of being a child molestor? If they can mention that, they can mention anything.
Fiona
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