Wendy wrote (in two different posts):
You're following a discussion on, say, Travis 1/Travis 2, and suddenly
someone pops up under
the same header to talk about how much of each of them you can see through
their costumes?
I believe most people have bodies under their clothes. I may be wrong.
By the time I've read enough to know I should delete it, it's too late. It
seems like any subject can >be given a sexual or innuendo twist, which IMHO often means turning an intelligent subject into a >dirty joke.
Some people who are intelligent also have sex. I believe. Some of them even talk about it occasionally. I've always read the Lyst 'no sex' policy as suggesting that one should refrain from posting material that is explicit, and in particular, more explicit than the Blake's 7 series itself. What you're talking about doesn't sound to be so.
There's a reasonable amount of sexual innuendo in the series (Avon re Dayna in Aftermath, the human bonding ceremony in Ultraworld, lots of Vila's comments, Servalan and various assorted sidekicks &c &c).
You could think of it like going down the pub and starting out having intelligent conversations, which gradually get sillier as people get tired or merry.
around I've seen a whole lot of threads which start off intelligently
degenerating into talk about
whether Avon or Tarrant is sexier or descriptions of Steven Greif in black
leather.
It's hard to get away from the fact that some of the costumes appear to have been designed to look sexy.
It also seems like IMHO some people have become so wrapped up in fanfic
(not just the slash
stuff either) that they read it back intoparticular episodes too.
This is an interesting point. Certainly there are trends in fanfic that appear to be enshrined in custom from the earliest works, that have little (or disputed) basis in the series. I'd love to see more fanfiction that tried to break new ground. I'd even write some if I had the talent, ideas, time &c...
I'm not sure how much of what people see as H/C today was intended to be seen as such by the
writers-- *I* think very little. And I don't think it was ever intended to
be the focal point of the
episodes.
But that's what fanfiction's all about, filling out areas or ideas that aren't explored in detail in the series. Very little attempts to write extra episodes similar to those existing, though that is the motivation for some.
I imagine some of the episodes were written against tight deadlines and the writers had little time to explore the subtexts in what they were writing. (I seem to recall you arguing the precise opposite of this with respect to Deliverance, rockets, phallic symbols and the like. But I, for one, don't wish to get into that argument.)
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