The awesome Toshiko Sato
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tencrushA 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.
[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.
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Date: 2009-08-04 09:57 pm (UTC)And I'm not really sure that I agree with the 'everyone in Torchwood is bi' theory. GBG is the only reference to Tosh being anything but straight. DayOne is the only time we see Gwen kiss a woman (thanks to alien pheromones). Aside from his occasional crude joke, the only evidence that Owen is other than straight is in his 'date rape' moment - and I don't know why everyone sees that as a threesome about to happen, I took his kissing The Boyfriend as a distraction so he'd escape a beating long enough to catch a cab and leave them both behind. *shrugs*
Jack, of course, is bi-omni-whatever. And I was convinced that Ianto was bi, at least until the whole Jack-sexual episode, which I'm still not convinced was adequately resolved in CoE.
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Date: 2009-08-05 05:23 am (UTC)I know, right? I still don't understand the threesome theory and I still don't see it when I watch it.