Again, caveat: people who are offended by such material please delete.
--- Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net wrote:
Everybody does have eliminatory functions, although I don't find them an interesting subject for fiction. Not everybody has partner sexual relations, although the series goes on for an awfully long time for me to believe that the characters didn't have sex with SOMEBODY.
But they do! Vila has sex with Kerrill; Tarrant with Servalan and Zeeona; Avon had sex with Anna Grant (in flashback admittedly, but still within the series). There's a fair bit of sex going on with one-off characters on the part of the regulars. It's worth noting, though, that in B7 sex is virtually always implicit, not overt.
have no say in their own series. In which case
we may
as well give up viewing the series entirely.
No, no, we need a springboard for our own and greatly improved versions!
So long as it's your version, and doesn't wind up retconned back into the canon...:)
regarded as being very "slashy" is the bomb scene
from "The Web." You
know the one:
OK, it's true that my mind is right in the gutter here, but I'd say, "you know, the one where when they're picking themselves off the floor, Blake removes his hand from Avon's lap, looks really upset at the state of play, and Avon says, "Automatic reaction. I'm as surprised as you are."
Now, that just doesn't happen. At no point in the scene is Blake's hand in Avon's lap. It is, briefly, situated between Avon's hand and the outside of his thigh, but Blake doesn't touch either Avon's thigh or lap. Blake's next statement, "Why?" is hostile; Avon's reply is in the same flippant tone he always uses when he is given the opportunity to kill Blake and doesn't take it (e.g. Cygnus Alpha). See also my reply to Betty, sent about twenty minutes ago.
(I like to view the series as a Shakespearean-style
tragedy,
with Avon as a classic Tragic Hero. I kind of
doubt that was
deliberately intended, though.
I think the Richard III echoes were quite consciously intended, ditto Hamlet.
I'd actually be inclined to agree with you on that.
A person who has a religious objection to pornography is, of course, not going to be a slash fan. And for a person whose religion defines homosexual acts as sinful, slash stories will refer to immoral actions. (However, Avon would be at least as culpable in committing adultery with Anna as fornication with Blake.) Even if I thought I could talk anyone out of her/his religious beliefs, I wouldn't want to.
Interesting. Nobody mentioned religious objections to porn or slash. Why bring up religion here?
Fiona
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