About the beta: sure, but don't tell Auburn, because I'm supposed to be working on that Xmen piece for her, too.
Essentially, because most Syd/Vaughn scenes are about desire rather than anything else, it casts doubt on the honesty/motivations of the entire relationship. Assuming I'm reading you right.
I hadn't actually made it this far--because it seems to me that the writers do expect me to see the Syd/Vaughn relationship as honest--and certainly, in S2, that was a big part of it. Remember how they wanted to be able to be honest about it? Now that I think about it, maybe that's why I could buy their story as a love story in S2 and not in S3.
I think that it's interesting that we never see men whoring themselves out the the way the women on the show do, so regularly--you'd almost expect to have seen it by now with Sark, wouldn't you? Perhaps the difference in the relationships you cite is because the show posits the conservative stance that men want sex, but women want love? That is, a man can get pleasure from sex with a pretty, willing partner regardless of emotional commitment, but a woman can't? (To be clear--this isn't what I think, but I wonder if it's the point of view that the show is putting forth?)
Sloane/Barnett. I'd forgotten about that one. I might need to think about that. More sex-as-warfare by other means? more sex-as-deception?
It's moral position I have difficulty sympathizing with...
It makes me CRAZY!!!! CRAZY!!!! Ahem. Yes, what you said.
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Date: 2005-01-07 12:34 pm (UTC)Essentially, because most Syd/Vaughn scenes are about desire rather than anything else, it casts doubt on the honesty/motivations of the entire relationship. Assuming I'm reading you right.
I hadn't actually made it this far--because it seems to me that the writers do expect me to see the Syd/Vaughn relationship as honest--and certainly, in S2, that was a big part of it. Remember how they wanted to be able to be honest about it? Now that I think about it, maybe that's why I could buy their story as a love story in S2 and not in S3.
I think that it's interesting that we never see men whoring themselves out the the way the women on the show do, so regularly--you'd almost expect to have seen it by now with Sark, wouldn't you? Perhaps the difference in the relationships you cite is because the show posits the conservative stance that men want sex, but women want love? That is, a man can get pleasure from sex with a pretty, willing partner regardless of emotional commitment, but a woman can't? (To be clear--this isn't what I think, but I wonder if it's the point of view that the show is putting forth?)
Sloane/Barnett. I'd forgotten about that one. I might need to think about that. More sex-as-warfare by other means? more sex-as-deception?
It's moral position I have difficulty sympathizing with...
It makes me CRAZY!!!! CRAZY!!!! Ahem. Yes, what you said.