Meta slash
Mar. 23rd, 2004 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynFor some reason, Bravo didn't air Keen Eddie last week, but they've started showing the ads for this week's episode, one of the unaired eps. I feel a great vindication: the asshats who commented that my vid at Escapade wasn't slashy enough, and that it wasn't a "correct" fandom to pimp at a slash con? Hah! Even the Bravo advertising folks know that the real romance in this show is between Eddie and Monty. The ad offers the usual quick clips from the rest of the main story, and then the announcer intones, "and the romance you've all been waiting for." A quick shot of Fiona. Music swells, and we get Monty staring up at Eddie, saying, "I think I'm attracted to you." Sound of record needle being pulled off abruptly. Eddie fixes him with an annoyed stare, and says "Shut. Up."
I'm telling you, the slash on this show is at meta level. The characters themselves know about it and comment on it. Right before the con, we had an episode where Monty was pissed at Eddie and wouldn't talk to him. At one point in the car, Eddie says, "Come on, give us a kiss." Monty turns away, but Eddie says, "Kiss?" Then a few weeks later came another totally new episode (one of the unaired six), and in frustration with strange things happening in his life, Eddie says, "Maybe we should just move in together." Monty leaps up and asks eagerly, "Really?" and Eddie, realizing what he's said, answers, "No!" to which Monty responds by sitting down and looking crushed.
I don't know how a show where two male characters are often sleeping on each other and having conversations like this could possibly not be considered slashy enough. I guess it's just that it doesn't have 12-year-old pretty boys. But I'll take Monty and Eddie over the rest of them any day. Wednesday at 10 now, on Bravo -- it's the slashiest!
I'm telling you, the slash on this show is at meta level. The characters themselves know about it and comment on it. Right before the con, we had an episode where Monty was pissed at Eddie and wouldn't talk to him. At one point in the car, Eddie says, "Come on, give us a kiss." Monty turns away, but Eddie says, "Kiss?" Then a few weeks later came another totally new episode (one of the unaired six), and in frustration with strange things happening in his life, Eddie says, "Maybe we should just move in together." Monty leaps up and asks eagerly, "Really?" and Eddie, realizing what he's said, answers, "No!" to which Monty responds by sitting down and looking crushed.
I don't know how a show where two male characters are often sleeping on each other and having conversations like this could possibly not be considered slashy enough. I guess it's just that it doesn't have 12-year-old pretty boys. But I'll take Monty and Eddie over the rest of them any day. Wednesday at 10 now, on Bravo -- it's the slashiest!
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Date: 2004-03-23 04:53 pm (UTC)I think the camera stuff really settled down in the later episodes, but unfortunately, they show them out of order, so... we still haven't seen Horse Heir, and that would drive her crazy, probably. ;-)