I started to write this, but somebody'd better cc it to Annie, since it looks like she's killfiled me too. Crikey, if this keeps up she'll have killfiled the whole lyst by next week...

In a message dated 3/6/01 7:47:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, wilsonfisk2@yahoo.com writes: << > We are not looking to prove that they are

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homosexual or bisexual just that that possibility is not excluded.

It is not specifically excluded, but that is becase the thought of this interpretation never crossed anyone's mind. >> And you know this... how? Unless you can claim to be the director, the editor, the actors, and the writers all rolled up into one, you have nothing to base this statement upon. Certainly nothing to make a 'case' with. Annie

Annie, m'dear, I'd like to quote to you something from a post of 06-03-2001 00:06.

------ :)! I'd just like to quote what Chris Boucher does say, in a December 1992 DWB interview (Issue 108), in response to the question "Was there ever an attempt on behalf of the writers to develop a progressive, ongoing relationship between Servalan and Avon, or between among of the regular characters for that matter?"

"No, and this was quite deliberate. Because with a drama series [as opposed to a soap--FM], it should be possible to show any of the episodes, apart from the first and last, in any particular order. So really, from that point of view, it would be essential to try and keep the relationships between the regulars as simple as possible. Occasionally we would suggest that one or other of them would have romantic feelings towards a person outside of the group, but then that was convenient, because once the episode was over, you never saw them again."

Or, to put it another way, Blake's seeming lack of interest in Jenna was not an attempt to make the character's sexuality ambiguous, but to avoid the potential plot complications of a developing relationship between principals. Similarly, though, it rules out homosexual relationships between the characters, because the same rule would apply. Now, the second quote, taken from a tape recording made for the same interview (quoted with permission of the interviewer):

"I tried to make sure that you could pay your money and take your choice, that you could see what [Avon] did either as a idealistic or totally selfish and cynical.... (Q. but he did save Blake on a number of occasions?) I don't think-- well, there should have been the development there that you could begin to suspect that he did have sort of feelings for Blake. Uh-- not *those* sort of feelings, you understand, but friendship. Brotherly feelings, or whatever, and the possibility of them should have been perceptible. But I would hope in most cases it should have been possible to justify what he did on selfish and or psychotic grounds." ------

That post was made by Fiona Moore. Just goes to show, Annie, that when you killfile people indiscriminately, you miss the argument.

Shane

"Avon, you were my only friend..." --Blake