From: Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net
(from Neil)
The only real difference between the two is the relative importance accorded to the sexuality of the characters, and it's not something I regard as
terribly
important. If Blake is planting explosives round a Federation base,
who
cares if he's gay, straight or bi?
Presumably someone would care if they thought he was a pedophile-- that was the whole point of fabricating those charges rather than others.
No, what I meant was that his sexual proclivities bear no relation to his actions as a revolutionary. Although there are scenarios in which one could argue that his sexuality may have directed him towards becoming a revolutionary in the first place, a man blowing things up is a man blowing things up, regardless of whether he prefers to shag women, shag men, shag children, shag horses, or invite the whole crew to watch him shove a banana up his arse. The same could be said for anyone doing anything which has nothing to do with sex, which for most people is most if not nearly all (or even all) of the time.
(from Tavia)
True. But -- likewise -- not everyone's interested in fanfic about Blake planting explosives around a Federation base.
For my taste, there was too much of that sort of thing in canon, more of it not required in fanfic
Well, I'm afraid tastes differ. And who's to say that one's is any better than another's? If you want to read B7 as a gay soap opera (to quote from an earlier post of yours) then fine, do so. I can't stop you and it would be unreasonable of me to want to do so*. But that doesn't mean that B7 *is* a gay soap opera, merely that you choose to read it as such. Personally I would consider calling the show a 'soap opera' to be an unconscionable insult to the series. And if you choose to blind yourself to the wider and - IMO - more interesting possibilities opened up by relegating sex to the margins of the action, then that's your loss.
<grouse mutter grumble> Bloody wind-up merchant <grumble mutter>
Neil
*Note that I'm not claiming to be reasonable here:)