From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   "Ahroo"  wrote in message   
   news:LLyzj.14692$0o7.10961@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net...   
   >>    On the other hand, would it really alienate that many fans if they did   
   have a more open and   
   >> graphic relationship?   
   >   
   > We have to remember that a large portion of the audience watched Xena for   
   the action - kids,   
   > hetero males. While the lesbian audience was very large and devoted, TPTB   
   knew that they had to   
   > walk a fine line and try to please everyone, and so did not want to do   
   anything too overt  to   
   > alienate any portion of their audience. I think the same would be true for a   
   movie. And as I   
   > think about the fan fiction that I like to read, although I do definitely   
   prefer stories that   
   > acknowledge the "truth" of their relationship, the ones I like best are   
   those with a good plot,   
   > not necessarily those that just throw a lot of sex scenes at the reader.   
   >   
   >>        One thing I've often wondered about  -- If they did decide to have   
   X&G in a sexual   
   >> relationship and TPTB weren't worried about the censors or offending some   
   narrow-minded people's   
   >> sense of propriety, just how far would Lucy and Renee be willing to go with   
   it?   
   >>   
   >   
   > I don't think that would be an issue for either of them. They are   
   professional actresses - they   
   > have to do love scenes with "strangers" (albeit usually males) all the time.   
   I don't think it   
   > would be any different for them being asked to kiss or make out with another   
   woman as it would   
   > with a man with whom they are not personally involved. Straight   
   actors/actresses do so all the   
   > time (if they don't have a hang up about it) - most of the cast of Queer As   
   Folk and The L-Word   
   > are straight, yet they are much more graphic in their sex scenes than we   
   would ever get with a   
   > Xena movie under any circumstances. A lot of gay movies (yes, there are a   
   lot of gay movies!)   
   > feature straight actors/actresses. Lucy and Renee are on record as being   
   very supportive of the   
   > gay community, both have acknowledged that they believe Xena and Gabrielle   
   to have a romantic and   
   > sexual bond, and I think both have stated that they wanted at various times   
   to depict it more in   
   > the show. Renee is about to do a TV show in which she is cast as a lesbian   
   (unknown how graphic   
   > she will have to be in the role). So, I don't think that would be a problem.   
   >   
   > The real issue, once again, is will we ever get the movie????   
   >   
   > Laura   
           The real answer?  Probably not.   
      
           They (X&G) would have to be classified as being bi-sexual, since they   
   both loved, and had   
   relations with men as well as with each other. (As Woody Allen once said,   
   "Being bi-sexual doubles   
   your chances of getting lucky on a Friday night." Or words to that effect.)   
      
   David   
      
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