Fiona said:
To give a (semi-)fictitious example, some people can be having a discussion on, say, themes of class struggle in "Weapon," and then somebody else, who hasn't participated at all up until this point, will launch in and say "Ooh, I think Carnell's accent is dead sexy! What's everyone else think?" And there's the whole prospect of
further
serious discussion gone to pot.
But why not just reply to the points raised in the last post actually about the class struggle?
Now I like that aspect of it. A lot. But I also like them to keep to the same sort of tone as the series.
I'd say that depends on your attitude toward the tone of the series.
What grates on me is not, say, someone writing a story where the relationship between Avon and Blake is explored, it's when it's explored by having them make long impassioned emotional speeches while staring into each other's eyes. I'd have no objection to
the
relationship between Buffy and Angel being explored in this way, cos over the course of that series they *do* have impassioned emotional discussions while in a clinch. But not Blake and Avon.
"Do I have a choice?" "Yes" "Then I agree." They really do spend a LOT of time much closer together than decorum would dictate.
-(Y)