--- Julia Jones julia.lysator@jajones.demon.co.uk wrote: > In message
6164599.983750190824.JavaMail.root@crowe.unimessage.net,
littles@lycos.co.uk writes
Point two: taking it up for the sake of argument
anyway, it's quite conceivable
that if the character _had_ been a straight woman,
there would have been a
sexual undertone to her relationship with Blake. As
it stood, however, it was
two straight men, not a straight man and a straight
woman.
Point one - I did not specify that Avon be played as a *straight* woman. Interesting how you assume that I did...
Your actual words were:
if Avon had been played in exactly the same way,
but by Pauline rather than Paul, I for one would assume that something was going on between Avon and Blake<<
Reading that, one can only assume that you were referring to a straight woman, otherwise, why should you see something going on between them? There is really nothing 'interesting' about that assumption, based on your actual words it's a perfectly normal one.
Some of those who do see unresolved sexual tension between Blake and Avon (or any other B7 slash pairing, for that matter) are gay or bi
- and some of them are as insistent that it's really
there, as you are insistent that it's all in the imagination of slash fans.
Isn't it just possible that what some members of the gay community are really seeing is their own fervent wish that this was so? After all, from what I have seen, the most common slash stories are A/B. These are strong characters, many of us admire qualities present in these men, so much so, that we see things that are simply not there. Many women would love to be with their idealised versions of Avon and Blake and I imagine the same applies to the gay community, so they see things between the two characters which are simply not so.
===== Cheryl. (My favourite 'Blake's 7' moment) What a fiasco! We could take over the ship you said, if I did my bit. Well, I did my bit, and what happened? Your 'troops' bumble around looking for someone to surrender to, and when they've succeeded, You, follow suit! (Avon to Blake. "Spacefall")
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