On 27 Feb 2001 as I do recall, Iain Coleman wrote:
On 26 Feb 2001, Calle Dybedahl wrote:
> "Tavia" == Tavia Chalcraft tavia@btinternet.com writes:
This could of course be bad acting. I detected no sexual (or any other) tension between Anna and Avon, but put that down to poor acting or at least uninspired casting.
If you attended Iain's "Acting lessons from B7 and B5" workshop, you got to see an alternatively acted version of Anna's death scene, with me as Anna and Una as Avon.
Which was, quite honestly, vastly better than the original. That wasn't entirely unexpected -- it is one of the worst-performed scenes in the series --
I've been observing this discussion with increasing puzzlement, until the explanation suddenly dawned on me that I have apparently been interpreting the famous cellar scene completely differently from everybody else. (Which would explain why the fan-fiction stories I've encountered on this subject have all rung so utterly false to me, of course.)
Yes, both parties to this exchange are stilted and awkward. I thought that was the point.
In another post on this subject, Fiona Moore states:
But the thing is, [sexual tension]'s conveyed in other ways. Avon is seen in bed with Anna. They talk about love. They embrace when they meet.
But the way I remember it, (and I'm working from memory here, I haven't seen this episode since I was researching 'Not to Know' in August 1999) the embrace is entirely one-sided. She rushes up to Avon, flings her arms around him, kisses him and starts prattling in a nervous, rushed way, as if she is trying to distract him, while Avon freezes up, totally failing to respond.