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Argh, I've just been forcibly reminded of why I have some issues with scripted shows. I just watched Sanctuary 3x09, "Vigilante," and for some reason, the writers decided to ignore the extremely well-established fact of Henry and the Big Guy's close friendship. There is no way, absolutely no way, that with the Big Guy lying in the infirmary unconscious, having been shot repeatedly by the man who killed one of his dearest friends, Henry would fuck off to his room to talk to his girlfriend on Skype.
I liked the growing friendship between Kate and the Big Guy, I really did. But not if the showrunners are going to bring her in as Henry's replacement in the best friend department. Not only is it crap characterization and poor, inconsistent storytelling, I'm also suspicious of why the choice was made. Did somebody finally notice how incredibly homoerotic the interactions between Henry and the Big Guy were? God knows, we can't have that!
*fumes*
ETA: I really am disproportionately upset by this. Seriously, I'm sitting here in tears. I trusted someone else's storytelling and was betrayed by it again, and it's fucked up a fanfic idea I really liked, and god damn it, why can't we have nice things sometimes?
I liked the growing friendship between Kate and the Big Guy, I really did. But not if the showrunners are going to bring her in as Henry's replacement in the best friend department. Not only is it crap characterization and poor, inconsistent storytelling, I'm also suspicious of why the choice was made. Did somebody finally notice how incredibly homoerotic the interactions between Henry and the Big Guy were? God knows, we can't have that!
*fumes*
ETA: I really am disproportionately upset by this. Seriously, I'm sitting here in tears. I trusted someone else's storytelling and was betrayed by it again, and it's fucked up a fanfic idea I really liked, and god damn it, why can't we have nice things sometimes?
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However, nothing I do in a fic will actually fix the problem with the source text. As much as I love and value fanfic's transformative abilities, I don't think that fanfic lets the source text off the hook. For example, all the slashfic in the world won't change the fact that a text has no LGBT characters.
So I guess I take a dual position: yes, I can make sense of this development with fic, and so I can turn the canonical problem into an opportunity; on the other hand, there is still a problem in the source text that I think it's important to recognize as a problem.
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