Buffy and Willow's conversation here was, to me, incredibly slashy.
I just wrote a long paragraph about my attitude to slashiness in this show and then erased it all. Basically I don't see the slash because I don't want to see it because the young characters seem like children to me. Perhaps I will get over this in a season or so. I like Buffy with Angel (as on the show) but on the whole I find them way too immature in style to be sexually interesting in any way. It's not their ages per se, it's how they are depicted; there's a squick factor. I am trying to overcome this. But this is one of the things that kept me from watching Buffy for a decade. (It still gives me a level of difficulty, and not just with regard to the idea of slash.)
Yes, I know "pillock" well - I don't even think of it as being rare. From Chambers (http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=pillock&title=21st): Brit slang a stupid or foolish person.
it was just a minor subplot. I loved it.
I didn't love it because (a) Xander came off as homophobic - I can forgive that, but it is clear he was uncomfortable with Larry's comments, and that was mildly distressing, and (b) it was kind of predictable. But I still enjoyed the scene.
might have been one of the first mainstream-type gay-character-outed situations on tv
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Date: 2008-05-04 03:16 am (UTC)I just wrote a long paragraph about my attitude to slashiness in this show and then erased it all. Basically I don't see the slash because I don't want to see it because the young characters seem like children to me. Perhaps I will get over this in a season or so. I like Buffy with Angel (as on the show) but on the whole I find them way too immature in style to be sexually interesting in any way. It's not their ages per se, it's how they are depicted; there's a squick factor. I am trying to overcome this. But this is one of the things that kept me from watching Buffy for a decade. (It still gives me a level of difficulty, and not just with regard to the idea of slash.)
Yes, I know "pillock" well - I don't even think of it as being rare. From Chambers (http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=pillock&title=21st):
Brit slang a stupid or foolish person.
it was just a minor subplot. I loved it.
I didn't love it because (a) Xander came off as homophobic - I can forgive that, but it is clear he was uncomfortable with Larry's comments, and that was mildly distressing, and (b) it was kind of predictable. But I still enjoyed the scene.
might have been one of the first mainstream-type gay-character-outed situations on tv
Really? Clearly, we were watching different TV!