The awesome Toshiko Sato

[tencrush]

A QUESTION FOR MY TORCHWOOD PALS REGARDING TOSH IN GREEKS BEARING GIFTS

[Poll #1439526]


The reason I ask is because I am reasonably familiar with old skool lesbian pulp fiction novels (umm... here, have a brief introduction), the gist of which is usually something along the lines of an innocent girl being Tempted Into Lesbian Experimentation by an Evil Lesbian, 100+ pages of reasonably tame sex ensue until finally the innocent girl is rescued from the Evils of Sapphic Desire by a Manly Man who Forgives her her Disgusting Aberration and maybe even decides to touch her down there if the thought of it doesn't gross him out him too much. The End. Anyway, that's what Greeks Bearing Gifts was to me, a lesbian pulp novel. And I wonder if one has to be familiar with the genre in order to see it that way, or if it struck more people just generally as kind of a squicky storyline. Feel free to comment and let me know.

Comments

[louiex.livejournal.com]

That's a really interesting way to look at it, being like a pulp novel. I always thought it was more of Tosh being so keen on someone's undivided attention and common interests that she wouldn't really care what bits came with it. A lot like Suzie I think Tosh just needed someone to talk to, someone to stand beside her and not dismiss her -as she saw Gwen and Owen so readily do, unconsciously or not, with the pendant- but Mary was rather intent on seducing her from the get go XD So maybe a bit of column A with a bit of column B. I wouldn't put it past the writers to have Mary exude some sort of sexy pheromones but not say it directly.

[tencrush]

I think it depends on how much you see what Mary does to Tosh as manipulation (one would assume through telepathic knowledge of her mental state) in order to get her into bed. That's pretty much how I saw it, and that immediately brought to mind, for me, associations with Evil Lesbians seducing innocent straight girls.