----- Original Message ----- From: Fiona Moore nydersdyner@yahoo.co.uk
--- Betty Ragan ragan@sdc.org wrote: > From: Betty
"mainstream opinion" on the Lyst. For instance:
These really surprise me, because I don't agree with most of them, and I *certainly* didn't think most of them were "mainstream opinion."
Well, I've been on the Lyst for about a year now, some times more active than others, and those have been the opinions I've seen ventured most often.
I think the Avon-Meegat scenes in "Deliverance" are fun.
But in the defending-Deliverance camp, that seemed to be the minority opinion-- most people whom I saw on it tended to take a more serious line.
-Same goes for Avon and Servalan
The lust I'd agree with there. I think it comes through fairly strongly on screen. This one probably *is* a mainstream opinion. I'd actually be quite interested in hearing what you think *is* going on between them, if you don't see a genuine sexual attraction.
I see a decided sexual, and otherwise, attraction to Avon on Servalan's part. For Avon's part, I see something a bit more ambiguous-- he seems aware of her attraction, and not above using it if need be, but he also seems to realize that she is incredibly dangerous-- see Aftermath.
-Blake is a noble idealist whose singlemindedness
frequently blinds him to
other people's needs, making him cold and
insensitive
Hmm. I think people's views of Blake differ a *lot*. Heck, mine fluctuate all over the place, especially when I'm reading/writing fanfic.
Again, fair enough, but this the view I've seen expressed most often.
-H/C fiction is a great way of exploring the more
intimate side of a
character, and neither it nor slash particularly
offend anyone
I think all of us are very much aware that some people are offended by slash. Me, I *wasn't* aware that some people were offended by h/c. My personal opinion is that both h/c and slash are *valid* ways of exploring the characters
This is a genuine and serious question, I am *not* taking the mick-- how is it valid to the character to read in a relationship which most people seem to agree isn't there-- including the people who write those stories? I mean, I personally can see it as a fun thing to do for a bit of fantasy, but I don't see the character-exploration bit.
Hmm. I like "The Daemons," too...
So do I :).
Similarly, I've heard from other people that when a line in "Mark of Kane" suggested (didn't state,
just *suggested,* since
there's no reason to assume Kane was telling the
truth) that Gan might have
had a dark and evil side, a lot of people reacted
with shock, dismay and
denials in the letters-of-comment in Horizon
instead of discussing the
evidence pro and con.
Hmm. Personally, I found that line *really* disturbing, and all the more so because it's so very, very *possible*.
Me too <shudder>.
Fiona
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