I knew someone would want to know why! Oh, all right, here goes. I buy Sam. I love Sam and his liberal self and his anti-homophobia and big, pretty eyes that linger on Gene in far too many shots. It'd be the easiest thing in the world to spin Sam as bisexual. In fact, the same arguments apply to him as to Jack Harkness - he's from the twenty-first century, he's flexible. ;)
But then there's Gene, who is a seventies copper and fits a lot of the classic slash-writing stereotypes. It's quite possible - probably inevitable - that Gene's irritated interest in Sam, his manhandling and casual contact, and more than that, the continuous wrangling between the two, is a subconscious manifestation of more slashy feelings for Sam. But Gene's a seventies copper. I just can't get round this roadblock. I think to write Gene as accepting of being queer, or having any sort of relationship with Sam, would be to write him out-of-character. The story I rec above works in this respect because it gives us a fucked-up Gene, who is trying to ignore the relationship in the hope it will go away, and that rings truer to me. It's different, I think, for say, Sirius and Remus growing up in the seventies, becuase they want to rebel, they want to shock, and when it comes to it, their environment is far less hostile than Sam and Gene's.
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on 2006-03-28 11:15 am (UTC)But then there's Gene, who is a seventies copper and fits a lot of the classic slash-writing stereotypes. It's quite possible - probably inevitable - that Gene's irritated interest in Sam, his manhandling and casual contact, and more than that, the continuous wrangling between the two, is a subconscious manifestation of more slashy feelings for Sam. But Gene's a seventies copper. I just can't get round this roadblock. I think to write Gene as accepting of being queer, or having any sort of relationship with Sam, would be to write him out-of-character. The story I rec above works in this respect because it gives us a fucked-up Gene, who is trying to ignore the relationship in the hope it will go away, and that rings truer to me. It's different, I think, for say, Sirius and Remus growing up in the seventies, becuase they want to rebel, they want to shock, and when it comes to it, their environment is far less hostile than Sam and Gene's.
*exhales* There ya go. Thoughts?