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THAT MOMENT when you're kind of halfway shipping a femslash pairing and then it... has a canon moment! And you completely didn't expect it at all! What?!
In other words, I continue to remember nothing about and be very surprised by what I've forgotten of HBO's Rome.
So I was watching along, finally on episode 7, finding Octavia and Servilia's dynamic very in line with what I usually enjoy as a romance, and liking it a lot, and thinking "Well, this would be possible base for fic, wouldn't it, they'd make an interesting pairing-"
And then I watched the rest of the episode.
What.
What?
Excuse my shock - this never happens; a same-sex pairing that I find interesting actually having a canon on-screen kiss (and suggestion of more) never happens. Except for in series where I go into it deliberately, having been made aware that it has that kind of thing (hi, No. 6). So I'm just kind of sitting here, blinking rapidly, wondering, did that just happen? And googling for episode summaries and discovering that yes, it did happen, or else a bunch of other people hallucinated the same thing.
Huh. Well. Needless to say, I am surprised.
I kind of hope that it won't turn out to be terribly fucked up - I mean, more fucked up than it is already considering the circumstances and everything. But then again, this is Rome, and everything is fucked and everybody is a complete mess. Suppose I'll find out as I watch more of it.
But, for the moment, I'll continue to be pleased and very surprised.
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Seriously though, I keep thinking of any way this can be interpreted as anything other than what it looks like, and I just - can't. No matter how I try to twist myself into a pretzel and see any other interpretation, it's simply - that absolutely did not look like a kiss meant to comfort a grieving woman. Well, maybe Octavia had intended it that way initially, but it certainly didn't stay that way.
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In other words, I continue to remember nothing about and be very surprised by what I've forgotten of HBO's Rome.
So I was watching along, finally on episode 7, finding Octavia and Servilia's dynamic very in line with what I usually enjoy as a romance, and liking it a lot, and thinking "Well, this would be possible base for fic, wouldn't it, they'd make an interesting pairing-"
And then I watched the rest of the episode.
What.
What?
Excuse my shock - this never happens; a same-sex pairing that I find interesting actually having a canon on-screen kiss (and suggestion of more) never happens. Except for in series where I go into it deliberately, having been made aware that it has that kind of thing (hi, No. 6). So I'm just kind of sitting here, blinking rapidly, wondering, did that just happen? And googling for episode summaries and discovering that yes, it did happen, or else a bunch of other people hallucinated the same thing.
Huh. Well. Needless to say, I am surprised.
I kind of hope that it won't turn out to be terribly fucked up - I mean, more fucked up than it is already considering the circumstances and everything. But then again, this is Rome, and everything is fucked and everybody is a complete mess. Suppose I'll find out as I watch more of it.
But, for the moment, I'll continue to be pleased and very surprised.
[edit]
Seriously though, I keep thinking of any way this can be interpreted as anything other than what it looks like, and I just - can't. No matter how I try to twist myself into a pretzel and see any other interpretation, it's simply - that absolutely did not look like a kiss meant to comfort a grieving woman. Well, maybe Octavia had intended it that way initially, but it certainly didn't stay that way.
This entry was originally posted at http://yuuago.dreamwidth.org/3398558.html. You can comment here or at the original entry.