Shane said:
Why do you continually equate Blakes' 7 with soaps and boybands?
Because audience reception is important to the study of any media production.
There are a number of strong female roles in Blakes 7. Servalan, Cally, Dayna, Jenna etc...
There are a lot of underwritten roles for women who look good in tight jumpsuits.
This still doesn't answer the question of why the relationship is a gay
one.
There are relationships between all the lead characters on B7. Why Avon
and
Blake? Why not Blake and Jenna, Cally and Avon... or Avon and Anna (who,
in
case you've forgotten, _were_ lovers)?
Read enough fanfic, and you'll find stories about any mathematically factorable combination of characters (I was going to say any imaginable combination, but there are more than that).
Again, why? Why do women, in your opinion, find it difficult to identify with Jenna or Cally?
Because the scripts give them so little background and so little to do
I wasn't talking about gay sexuality; in fact, more people than just me
have
pointed out that slash has very little to do with actual homosexuality at all (including yourself, I might add). I was talking about frustrated fans of whatever gender, fixated on an actor of whatever gender, which, even if it doesn't harm the actor, can hurt the fixated fan and his/her family emotionally. Obsession isn't pretty, as I'm sure you know.
This isn't very relevant to writing about fictional characters.
Oh, so most fans don't think sex addiction needs to be treated before it turns violent? Excuse me, I think I'm in the wrong hobby here.
Assuming that there really is something called sex addiction (as distinct from general poor judgment leading to dysfunctional behavior) and that it can be predicted who will turn violent and that there are effective modes of treatment, sure. Now, what does this have to do with whether my next story is about Avon pushing Travis over a cliff, Avon and Travis making love in the jacuzzi of the Fanficcea Hilton, or Servalan opening a charity bazaar?
-(Y)