Blakeslee and...Goff (2001)? I think that's the one with the horses.
Well, my first exam went well enough--but that was the easy one. I will need to engage in Knuckling Down tonight if I want to get all that Sports Psych fresh in my head.
But first, a fandom essay!
HH slash is rather easy for several reasons, the most shallow being the fact that the characters are very close. I don't mean that in a comrades-in-arms sense, I mean that they tend to stand very close to each other as a matter of routine--Klink and Hogan are particularly notable for this, as in many scenes they are about three inches from outright kissing. In addition there's that whole business in which they are in a Nazi prison camp most of the time and have limited access to women. Hogan does eventually give them rotating weekend passes to Dusseldorf to relieve frustration after Newkirk pleads a lack of practice in picking women (and brings a Gestapo officer right into the tunnels), but this isn't until Season Three. Until then girls are usually a matter of opportunity and Hogan gets most of them, but most of the men jump at the chance to at least hang out with them.
Except Andrew Carter.
Carter never gets the girl, but unlike most of the men it's not really from lack of trying. He just doesn't seem to have any interest. In the episode mentioned above, Carter declares delightedly that he's going to use his weekend pass to go to the zoo, and this is hardly the first time he's been oblivious to opportunities for women. The only time I've seen him express actual sexual interest in anybody was when other people did it first, and he's very well known for trying to get the approval of others through overenthusiastic compliance or wanting to have the good ideas for a change (although it works about as well as Klink's attempts to suck up to the higher ups).
On the other hand, he apparently had a fiancee waiting for him back home before he was shot down, although she left him for an air-raid warren at the end of Season One. I haven't seen the episode in question and HH synopses are impossible to find around the intertubes, but apparently he tried to escape after he got the Dear John and ignored Helga's attempts to seduce him out of the idea. I'd have to see the episode to get a feel for his motivations there, but one could conceivably theorize that there was an emotional attraction between the two but no sexual attraction.
So, is he gay or just a ditz? If he was gay, he'd have reasons to hide it even from the rest of the Heroes, who have minimal respect for him as it is despite his demolition and impersonation skills. He hides his disinterest in women with as much subtlety as his explosives, but the rest of the men write it off as another incident of his usual cluelessness. I haven't seen any indications that he's attracted to any of the men in the camp, reciprocated or unreciprocated, but no straight man's attracted to every woman in the universe either. They may just not be his thing or he may not know how to go about expressing interest in them.
Honestly, the only real pairing I facor for Carter would be with Karl Langenscheidt, one of the few named guards. They're approximately the same age and both have that same eager-to-please attitude, and there's so little canonical interaction that'd it be easy to make it up for them. Given that they're both men and have to work through that whole Allied prisoner/German guard dynamic (without the major issues that come attached to Hogan/Klink) with a grace that they really don't have, it could get very interesting.
Now I need to find more slash where people act less like nervous school girls. Manly army men, people! Only Klink gets to do the wibbly squeak.
EDIT: Although this stuff is pretty good.
But first, a fandom essay!
HH slash is rather easy for several reasons, the most shallow being the fact that the characters are very close. I don't mean that in a comrades-in-arms sense, I mean that they tend to stand very close to each other as a matter of routine--Klink and Hogan are particularly notable for this, as in many scenes they are about three inches from outright kissing. In addition there's that whole business in which they are in a Nazi prison camp most of the time and have limited access to women. Hogan does eventually give them rotating weekend passes to Dusseldorf to relieve frustration after Newkirk pleads a lack of practice in picking women (and brings a Gestapo officer right into the tunnels), but this isn't until Season Three. Until then girls are usually a matter of opportunity and Hogan gets most of them, but most of the men jump at the chance to at least hang out with them.
Except Andrew Carter.
Carter never gets the girl, but unlike most of the men it's not really from lack of trying. He just doesn't seem to have any interest. In the episode mentioned above, Carter declares delightedly that he's going to use his weekend pass to go to the zoo, and this is hardly the first time he's been oblivious to opportunities for women. The only time I've seen him express actual sexual interest in anybody was when other people did it first, and he's very well known for trying to get the approval of others through overenthusiastic compliance or wanting to have the good ideas for a change (although it works about as well as Klink's attempts to suck up to the higher ups).
On the other hand, he apparently had a fiancee waiting for him back home before he was shot down, although she left him for an air-raid warren at the end of Season One. I haven't seen the episode in question and HH synopses are impossible to find around the intertubes, but apparently he tried to escape after he got the Dear John and ignored Helga's attempts to seduce him out of the idea. I'd have to see the episode to get a feel for his motivations there, but one could conceivably theorize that there was an emotional attraction between the two but no sexual attraction.
So, is he gay or just a ditz? If he was gay, he'd have reasons to hide it even from the rest of the Heroes, who have minimal respect for him as it is despite his demolition and impersonation skills. He hides his disinterest in women with as much subtlety as his explosives, but the rest of the men write it off as another incident of his usual cluelessness. I haven't seen any indications that he's attracted to any of the men in the camp, reciprocated or unreciprocated, but no straight man's attracted to every woman in the universe either. They may just not be his thing or he may not know how to go about expressing interest in them.
Honestly, the only real pairing I facor for Carter would be with Karl Langenscheidt, one of the few named guards. They're approximately the same age and both have that same eager-to-please attitude, and there's so little canonical interaction that'd it be easy to make it up for them. Given that they're both men and have to work through that whole Allied prisoner/German guard dynamic (without the major issues that come attached to Hogan/Klink) with a grace that they really don't have, it could get very interesting.
Now I need to find more slash where people act less like nervous school girls. Manly army men, people! Only Klink gets to do the wibbly squeak.
EDIT: Although this stuff is pretty good.