----- Original Message ----- From: Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net
Fiona asked:
Yes, but as we've both been saying (I think!) some ventures are easier
to
fit in with the canon than others.
OK, but is the venture interesting? well-written? plausible about human motivations? arousing?
None of which are actually at issue here.
Fair enough argument :), but one also has to note that Travis (who has previously stated "I know that man better than myself") picked Inga as
the
bait to lure Blake to Exbar.
However, considering the fact that Blake went to a lot of trouble for
total
strangers in, e.g., Time Squad and Mission to Destiny, taking ANY hostage might have lured Blake.
As I said in the part of my paragraph which you snipped, though, that could have been something Travis could have done. A la Darth Vader, he could have contacted Blake and said "Talk, or I'll blow up [fill in name of planet here]." As it was, he didn't. Which suggests that he wanted to appeal to some element of Blake beyond just abstract altruism.
But where does he utterly not respond? He does. I've pointed out how he touches her face in "Bounty." In "Killer," they sit together on the
couch,
smiling and chatting with lots of eye contact. In fact, there is mutual eye-contact and smiling in many episodes.
It's a wonderful relief for Blake to have a conversation with someone who isn't slagging him off.
Is it, really? Cally seldom slags him off. Gan never does, as far as I can recall. Vila's occasionally acerbic, but by no means always. Avon does, but he's not the only person Blake talks to on the ship.
Which to my mind suggests that what was intended to be a violent act suddenly turned sexual, for him if not her.
Mission to Destiny is very early in the series--I read it to mean that Avon is still disturbed by enjoying violence
Again, that's a side point. I was using that scene, in which eye contact is both sexual and hostile (and you can't deny that he grabs her breast and that they tussle awfully closely), to contrast with Betty's cited scenes of Tynus and Avon, in which they eye contact is exclusively hostile.
Cheers, cos I'm not insisting anything of the sort :). Just arguing for
more
acknowledgement as to what's a strong possibility and what's a bit of a stretch of credibility, and what's a fantasy.
Everything about B7 is fantasy, including canon.
Ahem. Once again. let me redefine my terms. Rewrite that sentence to read "acknowledgement as to what *is supported by the canon*, *could fit the canon but only if you stretch it*, and *what is totally unsupported by the canon.*" Do you understand now?
<examples of slash stories snipped>
Yes. But what are the URLs, if these *are* in fact available online? I asked for online or privately posted stories for a specific reason, i.e. that as a doctoral student I don't have unlimited amounts of money or time (well, I'm OK on the latter for now :), but my supervisor gets back from Berlin on Friday). Consequently, I was asking for one or two stories that Betty considered to be thought-provoking slash, to instigate a discussion on the thoughtprovokingness of slash.
Fiona
The Posthumous Memoirs of Secretary Rontane Available for public perusal at http://nyder.r67.net
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