Subterfuge Slash
Aug. 4th, 2010 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaDear god, White Collar and Leverage, what are you doing to me!
You know, Torchwood really ruined me when it comes to Slash goggles. With Torchwood I just accepted the canon and the fucked up relationship because it was on the surface, it was there to be expanded and expounded and the Slash Goggles were more like reading glasses - the subtleties were there in the fine print of the relationships.
With these new shows of mine, because I mainlined White Collar and Leverage and am now up to date with all that has been happening, waiting every week for a new ep is excruciating.
Okay, so one of the reasons I even bothered to start watching White Collar was because a bunch of Torchwood people I like began watching and were really enjoying it and began comparing Peter and Neal to Jack and Ianto.
This has largely stopped, as the relationship dynamic between Peter and Neal is actually not like the one that happened between Jack and Ianto.
Peter and Neal do not fuck around with the power dynamic like Jack and Ianto did. Peter and Neal relish in their power discrepancy, on screen, in a way that Jack and Ianto never allowed themselves, because Jack and Ianto had an anachronistic relationship based on their status as warriors/soldiers (which I've written about) and they fuck with hierarchy.
Unlike Peter and Neal who fuck with in hierarchy. Peter loves the FBI, unlike Jack who had/has a very ambivalent relationship with Torchwood. And despite the fact that both Neal and Ianto are bound to these entities, Neal's agency over his own body seems to be less than Ianto's.
I'll have to think about that.
As I was saying, Peter and Neal fuck with in the hierarchy. Man, if that tracking anklet were a collar... teehee, pun.
Ahem. So I just watched "By The Book" and dude. Dude. How much more phallic can you get!?! Peter, offering his pen?!
And how many dinners has Neal caused Peter to miss with El? That is just so sweet, Peter trying to juggle his two relationships, which is of course a triad, but we're not getting a whole lot of that at the mo' (hurry back, Elizabeth!).
Peter is so in love with Neal it's adorable and El thinks it's adorable too!
One of the lovely things this season is the evolving group dynamic in the FBI team. Peter has a special relationship with Diana and Jones is so loyal to Peter it's absolutely charming. I'm pretty certain that after the tutorials Neal has been giving Jones in how to sell himself as a Mark and a Mobster, he could probably start his own confidence scam!
The group dynamic is evolving, but it's clear that this isn't about the team, they're satellites. Mozzie revolves around Neal and Elizabeth (they seem to have bonded), Diana and Jones revolve around Neal and Peter.
But they're not a team.
Which is something I prefer to watch, to tell you the truth, because the dynamic between Peter and Neal kind of remind me of the dynamic between The Doctor and Jack, only not unrequited. A power differentiation in which there is no mobility and while it's sexy to watch, it makes me feel bad for the rest of the people revolving around them, because in a way Peter and Neal are hermetically sealed to each other.
Maybe I'll expand on that at another time.
Leverage. Oh, I'm so happy it's being renewed for a fourth season. I really came late in the game and having watched the first two seasons without a break I can't really comprehend what people mean when they say this third season isn't as good the previous two. Like, what?! Now, Leverage isn't as complicated as White Collar when it comes to relationship dynamics, nor is it as dark (like in Torchwood), but a bunch of Robin Hoods trail blazing across the land is pretty awesome.
I am planning on writing something regarding the underlying trust in Authority that exists, paradoxically, in Leverage and how Capitalism is ratified over and over again.
But at this point I want to talk about the fact that Eliot and Hardison really love each other. I saw the sexiness of the pairing from the beginning, 'cause you know, both Eliot and Hardison are skilful and are of equal (yet very different) merit.
However, watching last week's episode (god I hated this week's episode, why was it so plugged?! Maybe later on that) "The Gone Fishin' Job", it was so obvious that Eliot just wanted to have some alone time with Hardison, even if Hardison isn't the out doorsy type, still secluded woods and a river... c'mon! It was totally romantic.
Not to mention their bickering and co-operation in the woods was superb television and so much fiction fodder!
When I watched the Comic Con Leverage panel, I got the feeling that Christian Kane was "protesting too much" by stating over and over again that Eliot and Hardison hate each other. Their dynamic has a lot of friction, but hey, who said love was easy.
Damn, I have to cut this short. More meta at a later date!
You know, Torchwood really ruined me when it comes to Slash goggles. With Torchwood I just accepted the canon and the fucked up relationship because it was on the surface, it was there to be expanded and expounded and the Slash Goggles were more like reading glasses - the subtleties were there in the fine print of the relationships.
With these new shows of mine, because I mainlined White Collar and Leverage and am now up to date with all that has been happening, waiting every week for a new ep is excruciating.
Okay, so one of the reasons I even bothered to start watching White Collar was because a bunch of Torchwood people I like began watching and were really enjoying it and began comparing Peter and Neal to Jack and Ianto.
This has largely stopped, as the relationship dynamic between Peter and Neal is actually not like the one that happened between Jack and Ianto.
Peter and Neal do not fuck around with the power dynamic like Jack and Ianto did. Peter and Neal relish in their power discrepancy, on screen, in a way that Jack and Ianto never allowed themselves, because Jack and Ianto had an anachronistic relationship based on their status as warriors/soldiers (which I've written about) and they fuck with hierarchy.
Unlike Peter and Neal who fuck with in hierarchy. Peter loves the FBI, unlike Jack who had/has a very ambivalent relationship with Torchwood. And despite the fact that both Neal and Ianto are bound to these entities, Neal's agency over his own body seems to be less than Ianto's.
I'll have to think about that.
As I was saying, Peter and Neal fuck with in the hierarchy. Man, if that tracking anklet were a collar... teehee, pun.
Ahem. So I just watched "By The Book" and dude. Dude. How much more phallic can you get!?! Peter, offering his pen?!
And how many dinners has Neal caused Peter to miss with El? That is just so sweet, Peter trying to juggle his two relationships, which is of course a triad, but we're not getting a whole lot of that at the mo' (hurry back, Elizabeth!).
Peter is so in love with Neal it's adorable and El thinks it's adorable too!
One of the lovely things this season is the evolving group dynamic in the FBI team. Peter has a special relationship with Diana and Jones is so loyal to Peter it's absolutely charming. I'm pretty certain that after the tutorials Neal has been giving Jones in how to sell himself as a Mark and a Mobster, he could probably start his own confidence scam!
The group dynamic is evolving, but it's clear that this isn't about the team, they're satellites. Mozzie revolves around Neal and Elizabeth (they seem to have bonded), Diana and Jones revolve around Neal and Peter.
But they're not a team.
Which is something I prefer to watch, to tell you the truth, because the dynamic between Peter and Neal kind of remind me of the dynamic between The Doctor and Jack, only not unrequited. A power differentiation in which there is no mobility and while it's sexy to watch, it makes me feel bad for the rest of the people revolving around them, because in a way Peter and Neal are hermetically sealed to each other.
Maybe I'll expand on that at another time.
Leverage. Oh, I'm so happy it's being renewed for a fourth season. I really came late in the game and having watched the first two seasons without a break I can't really comprehend what people mean when they say this third season isn't as good the previous two. Like, what?! Now, Leverage isn't as complicated as White Collar when it comes to relationship dynamics, nor is it as dark (like in Torchwood), but a bunch of Robin Hoods trail blazing across the land is pretty awesome.
I am planning on writing something regarding the underlying trust in Authority that exists, paradoxically, in Leverage and how Capitalism is ratified over and over again.
But at this point I want to talk about the fact that Eliot and Hardison really love each other. I saw the sexiness of the pairing from the beginning, 'cause you know, both Eliot and Hardison are skilful and are of equal (yet very different) merit.
However, watching last week's episode (god I hated this week's episode, why was it so plugged?! Maybe later on that) "The Gone Fishin' Job", it was so obvious that Eliot just wanted to have some alone time with Hardison, even if Hardison isn't the out doorsy type, still secluded woods and a river... c'mon! It was totally romantic.
Not to mention their bickering and co-operation in the woods was superb television and so much fiction fodder!
When I watched the Comic Con Leverage panel, I got the feeling that Christian Kane was "protesting too much" by stating over and over again that Eliot and Hardison hate each other. Their dynamic has a lot of friction, but hey, who said love was easy.
Damn, I have to cut this short. More meta at a later date!
