Hi,
I�m quite new here (well, I�ve been lurking for a while) but this really caught my eye and I think needs replying to. Feel free to contradict or challenge me!
Slash, however mild, only works if you take it out
of the
context of the series, cause it's not canon.
I'm sure that the _Liberator_ had bathrooms and that its crew ate meals. We don't see either of these on
screen either.
Shane Little(?)
I do detect a slight movement of goalposts here...
the two functions
you're talking about are necessary biological ones.
We can take it as > read that the characters eat and go to the loo without it impacting
much on their lives otherwise (except in certain
circumstances :)...)
However, having sex is a bit different. It's hard
to have sex with
someone and then go about your daily business with
that person as if > nothing had ever happened between you.
I think that�s a very good point, but another important thing to consider is dramatic convention. It�s basic dramatic convention that you only show what�s relevant. How often Tarrant visits the lavatory is only relevant in specific story circumstances, so you leave it out unless those specific circumstances arise (Tarrant is possessed by an alien that doesn�t go to the loo and the crew notice he�s not been there in six weeks, or whatever..) but it is safe to assume that he, and all the other characters eat and excrete on a regular basis. Because that�s what humans do.
With sex between characters, this is something that you don�t assume is happening unless you are told otherwise. Because people don�t have sex with everyone they know. So if it�s happening it is relevant. So you show it. Or at least establish it.
You don�t need to show a couple constantly having sex because if you establish they�re a couple then it comes under the same kind of convention territory as �going to the loo�, (Like, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart) but if you�re showing the process of two people becoming a couple (Like, Riley and Buffy, or Xander and Anya, or Vila and Kerrill whoever) dramatic convention dictates that you climax the illustration of that process with the characters kissing and/or a sex scene.
As Blake and Avon don�t know one another before the series starts, if the series were about �them as couple� then the process of them becoming one would be illustrated, reaching it�s zenith with a kiss/sex scene.
To not do so would be a clear disregard of dramatic conventions which �Blake�s 7� otherwise adheres to.
Surely?
'Kingpin' wilsonfisk2@yahoo.com
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