Mona wrote:Hello, MRotten,
I understand your belief that when fictional characters have sex on TV, it ruins a show for you, and you feel it ruins the show.
Obviously, this is not the case for everyone--Niles and Daphne getting together was About Time for me, after nearly 7 years of endless dancing about. Their relationship being together was sweet and touching, at times problematic, and merged perfectly into the show. After all, Frasier was having sex with partners all the time--did that ruin the show? If not, why would it be okay for Frasier to have sex in his relationships, but not Niles and Daphne?
I'm not sure why sex has to be hidden among consensual, energetic, healthy, mutual adults in "The Avengers" and even the thought of Steed and Emma having sex creates such havoc among some. As OneKnightSteed so eloquently wrote, the show wanted us to care about these characters and made them much more than two dimensional cut out boards. They had pasts, complex personalities, loved life and risked death both for the adventure and for the safety of their country and world.
They loved good food, good drink, good cars, good clothes. They went to balls and parties, they played polo and cricket, wrote scientific articles, went to shows, on picnics, to dinner. I think believing they lived life fully but kept sex out of it is missing some depth--Steed is the antithesis of celibacy and one doubts Emma, a very young, active and healthy widow, would choose to embrace a nunnery.
Believing that healthy, mutual sex was included in their relationship, and seeing some incredibly obvious clues to that regard, does not ruin the Avengers at all for me. Why would it? It, if anything, seems incredibly common sense SEDDI would exist given the times, the characters, and the writing of the show. It's certain if I was Emma I would have sex with Steed, so maybe some of our own desires are displaced onto the characters, as well as seeing the (at times blatant) innuendo and actions the writers so frequently had them conversing, and doing.
It would actually ruin the show for me IF they HADN'T had sex. Then the characters would appear to me to be very superficially drawn, burdened with sexual issues or a complete lack of libido which seems so antagonistic to their otherwise encompassing love of life.
Mona
Bravo, Mona! This a sterling summation for SEDDI!
believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
-buddha
