A trip down prison memory lane
Somebody has created the Oz Beecher/Keller Love Story excerpt, in 20 parts, on youtube.
The most important thing it loses is detail on other great characters. We meet most of them (especially if, for example, Keller killed them because they had sex with Beecher), but we see very little of Poet, or Augustus Hill who was one of my favorite characters for example.
I suppose, if you hadn't watched the show at all, these failings would be annoying. Certainly, if you never heard of the show, you'd be shocked by the amount of violence.
But what I got from it? A *wallow* in slashville. Seriously. Canonical slash. The old-fashioned, "Really, we're *not* gay; we just love each other" story. And oh yeah, we're both slightly off balance (or sociopathic), and *ridiculously* hot and ripped, and naked a lot, and we hurt each other, and when we get pissed at each other we fuck other guys solely because the boyfriend doesn't like it, and we say (out loud, repeatedly, to more than just the beloved) "I love you," "I love him," "I'm in love with him," etc. And then we kiss open-mouthed, and put our hands on each other's dicks, and we *embrace*, and we wrestle shirtless and sweaty and we do full frontal ridiculously often.
Just. Damn. Watching these people act, it's raw and bold to this day, to me. Watching that kind of writing come to life? Phenomenal.
It's a great Oz arc in spite of what they had to cut to keep to this one relationship front and central. It's like a Beecher/Keller pimping set, but I do wonder how it might stand up for people who haven't ever seen the show.
cross-posted from dreamwidth. http://charlottechill.dreamwidth.org/23978.html#comments
The most important thing it loses is detail on other great characters. We meet most of them (especially if, for example, Keller killed them because they had sex with Beecher), but we see very little of Poet, or Augustus Hill who was one of my favorite characters for example.
I suppose, if you hadn't watched the show at all, these failings would be annoying. Certainly, if you never heard of the show, you'd be shocked by the amount of violence.
But what I got from it? A *wallow* in slashville. Seriously. Canonical slash. The old-fashioned, "Really, we're *not* gay; we just love each other" story. And oh yeah, we're both slightly off balance (or sociopathic), and *ridiculously* hot and ripped, and naked a lot, and we hurt each other, and when we get pissed at each other we fuck other guys solely because the boyfriend doesn't like it, and we say (out loud, repeatedly, to more than just the beloved) "I love you," "I love him," "I'm in love with him," etc. And then we kiss open-mouthed, and put our hands on each other's dicks, and we *embrace*, and we wrestle shirtless and sweaty and we do full frontal ridiculously often.
Just. Damn. Watching these people act, it's raw and bold to this day, to me. Watching that kind of writing come to life? Phenomenal.
It's a great Oz arc in spite of what they had to cut to keep to this one relationship front and central. It's like a Beecher/Keller pimping set, but I do wonder how it might stand up for people who haven't ever seen the show.
cross-posted from dreamwidth. http://charlottechill.dreamwidth.org/23978.html#comments