Faith and the Lesbian Subtext
Jan. 12th, 2003 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyThe mood has nothing to do with anything in this post; it's just endemic.
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So![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heres_luck and I have been exploring the BtVS Season 3 DVD, and watched Doug Petrie's commentary track for "Bad Girls," which has many enchanting moments--at least two of which are him burbling about the lesbian subtext between Buffy and Faith.
And then tonight us and MH and some other people watched "Five by Five" (Angel 1.18), and lo and behold, there's some more lesbian subtext around Faith, except the woman playing Lilah (not an Angel fan, so don't know her name) delivers the lines straight. *weeps* Eliza Dushku's doing everything but practically Frenching her, and the woman can't even work her way up as far as "vague innuendo"--much less "sultry," which is what the dialogue is crying out for. Dushku's left doing that subtextual tango all by herself.
And that's a pity, because given the right dance partner, Dushku can show you just why the tango is the dance of seduction. She and Gellar prove that in Season 3.
I hate seeing good subtext wasted.
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So
heres_luck and I have been exploring the BtVS Season 3 DVD, and watched Doug Petrie's commentary track for "Bad Girls," which has many enchanting moments--at least two of which are him burbling about the lesbian subtext between Buffy and Faith.And then tonight us and MH and some other people watched "Five by Five" (Angel 1.18), and lo and behold, there's some more lesbian subtext around Faith, except the woman playing Lilah (not an Angel fan, so don't know her name) delivers the lines straight. *weeps* Eliza Dushku's doing everything but practically Frenching her, and the woman can't even work her way up as far as "vague innuendo"--much less "sultry," which is what the dialogue is crying out for. Dushku's left doing that subtextual tango all by herself.
And that's a pity, because given the right dance partner, Dushku can show you just why the tango is the dance of seduction. She and Gellar prove that in Season 3.
I hate seeing good subtext wasted.
