From: Lisa Williams lcw@dallas.net
No, but they're not gay.
Your personal interpretation of the characters has been duly noted.
Actually, since I put in a lot of work on this :), I feel obliged to point out that there's more than just personal interpretation at issue here. Last month Steve, Betty and I spent a long time hashing out the evidence from canon with regard to the principal characters' sexual orientations, and came up with a solid straight in all cases (except Blake, and with him the balance of evidence was for straight--and the only reason for the doubt was because of the fact that the way the series was written in Series 1 and 2 left much less room for sexual themes than later on). Now, before you go accusing me of being anti-slash and Puritanical, I have to say that nobody on that particular thread, least of all me, was saying that people therefore shouldn't write slash-- just that there *is* evidence from canon for the characters' sexual orientations, they're not just blank slates.
If you want to read the argument, I suggest you look in the archive under "Fiona+Betty+slash" or something similar. I can hash it all out again but I think it might bore people.
Fiona
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