From: Jacqueline Thijsen inquisitioner@wish.net
And here you're doing it again, I'm afraid. You take it as given that Deliverance contains sexist themes, and measure the reactions of other
fans
by assuming that they must have seen those themes, too. Well, I haven't,
or
at least not in the way you seem to have done.
Er... hang on, are you trying to say that some people haven't noticed the *sexism*? The misogyny I can quibble over, but the sexism is so blatantly obvious it doesn't need querying.
The "relationship" between Meegat and Avon strikes me as amusing rather that sexist
But the sexism isn't Avon's, it's Terry Nation's. You know, the bloke what wrote the script.
(I do love his expression at her worshipful attitude)
Stop looking at the characters and consider the episode in terms of its ideological topography. It's a bloody great mountain of Victorian bourgeois complacency.
and my reaction to the hairy barbarians is pretty much the same as Neil's. I just groan and wait for
the
good bits of the episode.
But do you groan for the same reasons as I do?
Can't speak for Neil, but it's not the seeing of Avon's good points I object to. It is the fact that some people persist in seeing/portraying him as having no bad points.
I've been on the lyst for almost three years now, and I don't remember
ever
seeing that portrayal. I've seen several people explaining specific bad behavior in a good way and in some cases I even agreed with them, but I don't think anyone on this lyst ever called Avon a saint. Well, not seriously, anyway.
I too have yet to see anyone describe Avon as an out-and-out saint, but when I first entered the hallowed ranks of fandom (nearly ten years ago now) I was immediately struck by the massed ranks of Avon apologists on whom I will pass no comment as I have no wish to start a flame war.
Neil (currently rather angry)