More Professionals blather
Whee, new fandom infatuation. I know, I know, you guys don't care and it's not your shiny new fandom because, dude, this show's older than me. (Not by much, and I'm older than maybe the last couple series anyway.) Now I've seen about half of the first series. The cute slashy moments are just as cute and slashy as promised (I'd been thinking they wouldn't be because a lot of people seem to interpret "are in the same shot" as slashy, and I'd forgotten that in the olden days people, you know, liked to have more reasons. Squee.) They're so not using call numbers, which is weird.
The other weird thing is the bonus lesbians. Fandom had told me about the gay Greek assassin guy, so I was prepared about that, but no one said there were lesbians in "Everest Was Also Conquered." And it was weird, not just because there were lesbians (don't worry, one of them ended up quasi-evil *and* dead), but because of the characters' reactions.
So the episode has two middle-aged women (one of whom is retired from the police), who clearly live together, who were planning where to go on holiday and discussing who should watch their dogs. lysimache called lesbians, but she prefers to overreport and usually they end up being sisters (and not in the "all women are our sisters" way). And then Bodie and Doyle started in on it. My reaction was "Oh, no" followed by "Wait, what?"
DOYLE: You get the same kind of feeling as I do about those two?
BODIE: What, only one bed being slept in?
DOYLE: Yeah, yeah.
BODIE: Yeah. It must have been murder for a policewoman with those kind of tendencies in the fifties.
DOYLE: Yeah, she'd be open to all kinds of bribery, blackmail, the lot.
I was figuring they were going to say something, you know, crude and misogynistic, so I wasn't looking forward to it. But instead they were, well, sympathetic, or at least Bodie was. Which is really frickin' weird for straight boys who, judging from the previous episodes I have seen today, don't seem to like women all that much as people. Surely they should have difficulty with lesbians. But they don't seem to.
So it's weird. Like Ray Kowalski calling things queer, weird. (Incidentally, I was reading the ds match story earlier, and Team Whimsy had been mislabeled as Team Reality. So there I was reading this nice long post-"Call of the Wild" story that I thought represented Reality, and then Fraser turned into a selkie. It was kind of jarring.) Anyway. It's probably kind of weird of me to pick on canon reactions to lesbians as evidence of slashiness, isn't it? But it sure wasn't the tough manly straight guy characterization I was expecting. So there.
The other weird thing is the bonus lesbians. Fandom had told me about the gay Greek assassin guy, so I was prepared about that, but no one said there were lesbians in "Everest Was Also Conquered." And it was weird, not just because there were lesbians (don't worry, one of them ended up quasi-evil *and* dead), but because of the characters' reactions.
So the episode has two middle-aged women (one of whom is retired from the police), who clearly live together, who were planning where to go on holiday and discussing who should watch their dogs. lysimache called lesbians, but she prefers to overreport and usually they end up being sisters (and not in the "all women are our sisters" way). And then Bodie and Doyle started in on it. My reaction was "Oh, no" followed by "Wait, what?"
DOYLE: You get the same kind of feeling as I do about those two?
BODIE: What, only one bed being slept in?
DOYLE: Yeah, yeah.
BODIE: Yeah. It must have been murder for a policewoman with those kind of tendencies in the fifties.
DOYLE: Yeah, she'd be open to all kinds of bribery, blackmail, the lot.
I was figuring they were going to say something, you know, crude and misogynistic, so I wasn't looking forward to it. But instead they were, well, sympathetic, or at least Bodie was. Which is really frickin' weird for straight boys who, judging from the previous episodes I have seen today, don't seem to like women all that much as people. Surely they should have difficulty with lesbians. But they don't seem to.
So it's weird. Like Ray Kowalski calling things queer, weird. (Incidentally, I was reading the ds match story earlier, and Team Whimsy had been mislabeled as Team Reality. So there I was reading this nice long post-"Call of the Wild" story that I thought represented Reality, and then Fraser turned into a selkie. It was kind of jarring.) Anyway. It's probably kind of weird of me to pick on canon reactions to lesbians as evidence of slashiness, isn't it? But it sure wasn't the tough manly straight guy characterization I was expecting. So there.