not dead; slash comes to Witchblade
Aug. 14th, 2002 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
buggerySigh. 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.
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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Re: foreign mysteries
Date: 2002-08-15 12:39 am (UTC)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.
Re: foreign mysteries
Date: 2002-08-19 10:52 am (UTC)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...
Re: foreign mysteries
Date: 2002-08-19 11:13 pm (UTC)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.