buggery | not dead; slash comes to Witchblade

Sigh. Y'all are prolific folks; I don't know how long it's going to take me to catch up on the pages and pages of Friends backlog I've got. On the other hand, pages and pages of Friends' posts to catch up on is a good thing.

Spent all day Saturday with my brother, and after three days of scarcely getting out of bed I'm managing to get on the computer for more than an hour at a time. I have seriously weird dreams when I sleep that much.

Okay, enough whining.

I did manage to see Witchblade Monday night -- and actually bothered despite my general disappointment with Season 2. And damn, talk about your text-level subtext. Forget Gabe's pretty eyes (okay, don't forget them, but leave them aside for the moment). Instead think of the look on Sarah's face when Danny asked her if she'd ever been beat up for being white or heterosexual -- because no, Danny, she's not about to get beat up for being straight any more than she is for being Chinese, she's neither, but the middle of the squadroom is not the ideal place for coming out to your partner.

Enter Bola.

It's lonely being different, she says... in more ways than one, she means. Sure, there's the obligatory HoNay flashback of her parents tucking her into bed 600 years ago, but it's pathetically obvious that it's there only in an attempt to distract us from how unmotherly the Sarah/Bola interaction is getting.

If these were two male characters, or even if one of them was male instead of female, would we have been shown the two of them sleeping spooned together? Hell, no. I'm still amazed they showed it, even with them both being female and even with the anvillicious suggestion that Bola views (the lifetimes-younger) Sarah as a mother figure.

Frankly, skimming entries, I'm amazed that there's not buzz about this all over LJ. I know you don't all watch, but... am I really the only one who sees this?

Maybe everyone's just too busy writing Harry Potter slash.

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...you're quite right about it all, now that I think about it (I've just been too braindead lately to play much connect the dots, and have become so used to not paying deep attention to Witchblade this season).

If I hadn't unsubscribed the ML in disgust today, I might actually post some comments along these lines on the "Witchblade" yahoogroup, considering a whole "Sara is not gay/bi, dammit!" war was flaring up again. With people using the exchange with Danny as 100% undeniable proof positive that She Must Be Straight. I just couldn't take it any more.

Well, I did have the advantage of going in with the assumption that she's not straight -- yes, I saw season 1 where she was getting it on with a guy, did you (generic you, not sidewinder you) see season 1 where she went genderbending in the gay bar? And seeing the world through rose-tinted slash goggles helps too.

But seriously, why else would she have looked so poleaxed when Danny asked her that?

Incidentally, while I don't usually tape Witchblade, I made a point of getting this one on the 11pm rebroadcast; it's on my Tape of Miscellaneous Slashiness. If you want, I can tote it along to Philly with me...

See, at times like this I think - *why* do we have different TV shows? No idea about Witchblade.

And am not writing Harry Potter slash. Pah!

But does that mean you are?

Poor Kitty. You'll get Witchblade there eventually, I'm sure. Just as things like Red Dwarf eventually make it over here. (Not that Witchblade is like RD!)

And hell NO, I am not writing HP slash, it just seems everyone else is. I haven't even read the books or seen the film. I mean, I slash almost everything I see as it is; I can't watch Disney's Tom and Huck without being overwhelmed by the homoerotic subtext (it's there, damnit, and I'd apologise to Mr Clemens but I didn't direct the thing), but I have to draw the line at children whose apparent ages are single digit.

I'm with on the single digit thing! Even if the books start with Harry at 11/12, that's still too young to have him shagging one of his teachers, IMO. I quite like the idea of some of the adult slash, but I can't work up the enthusiasm to read it, as I actually really like the books, and I want more of the Rowling oeuvre, not imitations thereof. Silly really, considering i can cope with the same thing when the original is a TV show. Maybe I'm too precious about books? I mean, if I read LOTR slash (which I have dipped a mental toe into) I have to think FILM not BOOK, firmly to myself.

If they show Spooks on US TV, watch it. it's not slashy - but Anthony Head guests in one ep and the slashiness (and the angst) just dripped off the screen...

If I'm going to read LOTR slash, I want it to be written in Tolkien's style... which is a tall order, and I'm not about to bitch at people for not measuring up to it. (Though... have you read Bored of the Rings? Hifuckinglarious.

Never heard of Spooks, though I'll keep an eye out. I'll watch almost anything dripping with slashiness, though in my (admittedly limited, as I only started watching 3 months ago) experience of BtVS Giles doesn't have much sexual chemistry with anyone.

Forget Gabe's pretty eyes

Oh, no. Not forget. Like, ever.

I've been trying to write Gabe/Jake slash *forfuckingever* and it's never gotten anywhere. But I'd swear in any court that they're gettin' it on.

Hmm. I'd rather see Gabriel/Ian and Jake/Danny. Or Gabriel/Danny and Ian/Jake. But any of those boys together would be yummy, really.

Hmm. There are some fun smooshes to be made of those pairings. Gabrian. Gabranny. Danke.

Boyo, watching Danny and Jake (and Conchobar) duke it out tonight was selicious.

Boyo, watching Danny and Jake (and Conchobar) duke it out tonight was selicious.

It figures that I'd get bored and stop watching right before they brought him back.

I thought the whole "turn back time" trick last season was pretty lame, and haven't been following this season too closely. Obviously, I should've been paying better attention!

That's one of my favorite things about Witchblade... So many yummy boys to choose from. And the fight club ep nearly made me blow a fuse. Rrr.

Also, Sara? Definitely bi. Hadn't gone there with Little Red Riding Hood, but now that you mention it...it could happen.

No, we're just saying "La LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" because we have ENOUGH FANDOMS.

rrrrrrrr.

There are NEVER enough fandoms.

And I've always followed more shows for the slashiness than I had any intention of actually writing fic for. I think the standout in that category is Beastmaster... Dar and Tao are slashy as hell, but I can't get into the plot arcs enough to develop a plot or characterisations I'd be satisfied with (nor, apparently, can anyone else).

There are NEVER enough fandoms.

I write in 22! I think that's enough!

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