Not dead. Just sleeping.

[septemberoses]

I'm at a bit of an impasse after The Dark Fic and Coda.  I'm trying to work on the Carsten follow-up in Copenhagen, which I'd been working on (a Godric/Eric/Carsten threesome!) but now Eric and Godric have gotten into an argument about Godric's work as an inquisitor, and it needs some rewriting to make it less … alarming?  Or something.  I'm stuck

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[linndechir]

I so agree with you ... every time there is some canon slash in a movie, TV show, book, we have to be grateful if there is as much as a short kiss - while the het couples, and even the lesbian couples, get full sex scenes. What, do they think that all male fans will suddenly run away because they had to see two half-naked men groping each other? Idiots.

The actors said they were up for some slash in the flashbacks? Oh my, I missed that. what exactly did they say? :D

Speaking of canon slash ... I have to squee about Holmes/Watson for a second, even if it has nothing to do with your post, sorry. Although, again, it's so typical that there were only (very unsubtle) hints in the movie, but nothing explicit. Yeaaaah, right, because it's okay to change just about everything about Sherlock Holmes (not a criticism, I loved the movie), but God forbid he kisses Watson in the movie. That would be so unacceptable.

[septemberoses]

Like the Alexander the Great movie a few years ago. They were so afraid of turning the guy-audience off that Alexander gets it on violently with his wife, but they don't show anything with Hephaistion or Bagoas, two men in Alexander's life whom most historians agree he was having sex with.

I really need to go see Sherlock. Even UST between those two would be hot. :)

[linndechir]

Exactly, I was so angry about that. It really wouldn't have hurt anyone to give us a proper sex scene with Hephaistion or Bagoas - or, if they didn't want sex scenes, what the hell was the het for?

Yes yes yes yes, go and see it! Silly me for asking you again if you had seen it in my e-mail. ;) Be sure to tell me if you liked it when you've seen it. :)

[septemberoses]

Particularly in the US, I think some of those roles are poison. And I'm pretty sure there's a double standard regarding sex (gay sex gets a more adult rating.)

[linndechir]

I guess, but although it might be worse in the US, the same problem also exists in European movies/shows. Not that I watch all that many European movies, but I remember quite a few in which there was a male/male-pairing, but they got a lot less action than the het pairings. And at the same time it's considered perfectly normal to insert random het sex scenes in every second movie, whether they are needed for the plot, characterisation, the flow of the story, whatever, or not.

[linndechir]

Right, I forgot. This whole thing reminds me of some reviewer, I can't remember who exactly it was, I believe some Sherlock Holmes expert, who complained about the slashiness of the new Sherlock movie: "Who would ever want to see RDJ and Jude Law having sex?" (or making out, whatever the exact phrasing was). Well, you can imagine the reaction of the internet comms, because who DOESN'T want to see that?

[septemberoses]

Oh, sorry, PS -- no, THEY didn't say so. But ASkars and AHyde have both done gay/gender-bending roles, so I think they'd be comfortable.

[linndechir]

Ah, okay. But actors are usually more comfortable with that than the producers ... Hugh Laurie said years ago that he'd be okay with House/Wilson, but it still didn't happen. :(