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thedeadlyhook) wrote2008-02-02 09:46 am
thedeadlyhook) wrote2008-02-02 09:46 am
So... Incredibly... Sick
This has got to be the worst case of flu I've had since childhood. Toys has it too. We are the house of the supremely ILL.
As a mild plus, I've gotten to watch a lot of random odd-hours television while laid up and woozy, and the discovery that TV Land plays classic Star Trek at 6:00 am has to be worth something. And nostalgic, too - the other morning, they were playing "The Man Trap," one of the first ST episodes I ever saw at age... 10, 11? (In reruns - I'm not quite old enough to have seen it first run.) I was immediately hooked, and in those days before videotape, you had to take what you got whenever it was offered - I used to comb through TV Guide looking for showings - late, early, whatever - which I would set my alarm to get up for, if need be. Yes, folks, Star Trek was LOVE.
Anyway, "The Man Trap." So bleary-eyed, Toys and I are watching this while coughing and snuffling, and we can't help but note the absolutely simmering sexual tension in this ep. The Monster of the Week, a salt-sucking vampire creature, can read your mind and take on a form that gets under your defenses, typically a member of the opposite sex.
For Sulu though, the creature didn't change to a woman. It went after him as a man.
Was Sulu's slashability always so freaking obvious, and I was just dim? Or is it just my fever talking?
As a mild plus, I've gotten to watch a lot of random odd-hours television while laid up and woozy, and the discovery that TV Land plays classic Star Trek at 6:00 am has to be worth something. And nostalgic, too - the other morning, they were playing "The Man Trap," one of the first ST episodes I ever saw at age... 10, 11? (In reruns - I'm not quite old enough to have seen it first run.) I was immediately hooked, and in those days before videotape, you had to take what you got whenever it was offered - I used to comb through TV Guide looking for showings - late, early, whatever - which I would set my alarm to get up for, if need be. Yes, folks, Star Trek was LOVE.
Anyway, "The Man Trap." So bleary-eyed, Toys and I are watching this while coughing and snuffling, and we can't help but note the absolutely simmering sexual tension in this ep. The Monster of the Week, a salt-sucking vampire creature, can read your mind and take on a form that gets under your defenses, typically a member of the opposite sex.
For Sulu though, the creature didn't change to a woman. It went after him as a man.
Was Sulu's slashability always so freaking obvious, and I was just dim? Or is it just my fever talking?
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Thanks for the offer, though. It cheers me up to think that you would. I feel well loved. : )
The only thing I fear about going back and rewatching the series now with an eye toward Sulu as a gay icon is that I'm afraid it will impact my teen memories, where he was always the hottest one. Except for Spock. But Sulu was the one that would never make you cry, you know?
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I'm glad you feel well loved, you're meant to.
Y'know, I never thought much about Sulu's private life back in my ST fangrrrl days, because I was all about the Kirk/Spock then the way I'm all about the Spike/Buffy now.