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I've been hanging out in the TS chat today and... I don't know. I think I'm too, something to get any of this out there (slow, shy, something). At one point they were talking about the whole compromised lungs theory and stuff - really why does it have to be one way or the other? The body is a pretty amazing machine and can to some extent repair itself, nothing says any damage Blair may have suffered was permanent. I prefer to think of it as a healing process, personally. But what really got my attention was when they were talking about the 'gay' aspect and subtext. And, well, maybe I've been looking at things through slash-colored glasses for too long, but esp in the 90's subtext WAS everything to a slasher and the fact that the creators/writers/producers kept it in was imo a major thing. Okay, so they were all homophobic cutting out some scenes - removing what could be considered 'in your face' bits (though really to be seeing it that way you'd need your slash glasses on to begin with) - but on the whole I'd say it was massively progressive in how they dealt with it.
Slightly ot, but they were also discussing how shows in the 90's didn't really do massive season long story arcs. Did they never watch B5 or Buffy? Those were like based on huge story arcs. Keeping in mind that in the 90's I pretty much only watched TS, B5, PtL, SG1, and Buffy. Anyway, not saying they're wrong about it, but to imply that most modern shows have bigger defined story archs on the whole seems a bit blind. And you can't count things like Dexter and True Blood and GoT as those are all based on the books, like hardcore based on the books, one book equals one season (excepting the current seasons of GoT where they've split one book between two seasons). I know plenty of shows do have wider archs these days - SPN, White Collar (I think), DH (sorta), CSI (depending on the season), OUaT (though I think that's one of those that has to by default, but I'll count it anyway), and others I'm sure, but that's hardly most or any sort of majority.
Ah, well, just the ramblings of a fangirl.
Slightly ot, but they were also discussing how shows in the 90's didn't really do massive season long story arcs. Did they never watch B5 or Buffy? Those were like based on huge story arcs. Keeping in mind that in the 90's I pretty much only watched TS, B5, PtL, SG1, and Buffy. Anyway, not saying they're wrong about it, but to imply that most modern shows have bigger defined story archs on the whole seems a bit blind. And you can't count things like Dexter and True Blood and GoT as those are all based on the books, like hardcore based on the books, one book equals one season (excepting the current seasons of GoT where they've split one book between two seasons). I know plenty of shows do have wider archs these days - SPN, White Collar (I think), DH (sorta), CSI (depending on the season), OUaT (though I think that's one of those that has to by default, but I'll count it anyway), and others I'm sure, but that's hardly most or any sort of majority.
Ah, well, just the ramblings of a fangirl.