1) I'm with you completely there. The "you're truly beautiful and worthy" speech is outworn, and in real life, what counts more is actions: the gaze, the responding positively, the trust placed in someone.
2) "...if the sex doesn't inform the plot or the characters and do so in a way that NOTHING ELSE COULD, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care." Here I differ: I might use sex to inform the plot or characters; I might use cooking and eating, or dancing, instead, because to me, they all fall in a similar spectrum of "how do the characters relate to the world around them and to each other" -- but I agree with you that if it's not for a point, it's not worth watching.
Aside: this is one of the reasons why much porn doesn't work for me, particularly visual porn: nothing's flowing from the past or into the future, if that makes any sense
Aside #2: there's a unformed connection between my feeling this and my thoughts about fanfiction, that's partially shaped that I like fanfiction that continues the characters in one direction or another past either end of the book/movie/show.
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she's numbering her points! beware!
Date: 2003-09-18 11:28 am (UTC)2) "...if the sex doesn't inform the plot or the characters and do so in a way that NOTHING ELSE COULD, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care." Here I differ: I might use sex to inform the plot or characters; I might use cooking and eating, or dancing, instead, because to me, they all fall in a similar spectrum of "how do the characters relate to the world around them and to each other" -- but I agree with you that if it's not for a point, it's not worth watching.
Aside: this is one of the reasons why much porn doesn't work for me, particularly visual porn: nothing's flowing from the past or into the future, if that makes any sense
Aside #2: there's a unformed connection between my feeling this and my thoughts about fanfiction, that's partially shaped that I like fanfiction that continues the characters in one direction or another past either end of the book/movie/show.