Truth to tell, the seme/uke thing never fails to piss me off. I came into Trigun from writing tv/movie slash, and I just can't understand the obsession with one character always being the top and the other always being the bottom.
That's another of my big red yaoi buttons, right there. If the relationship dynamic is always one way, if there's always one guy dishing it out and the other taking it, in bed and out, how is that supposed to be interesting? What fascinates me is a relationship of equals, with both men forced to compromise and willing to do it for one another. Yaoi needs a lot more switching, IMO, both in the manga and in the fics. It is happening, the hunky seme/wide-eyed diminuitive uke formula being broken more often, but it's slow.
Don't even get me started on the random fangirl Japansese. Apparently, they must've seen a different copy of the DVD than I did, because I don't recall anyone using Japanese phrases.
*grin* They use nothing else in my DVDs, but then I've never watched more than 5 minutes of a dub! But yeah, I think it makes more sense to anglicise it to Master Knives or something, given the setting and Nightow's statements that they're supposed to be speaking English.
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That's another of my big red yaoi buttons, right there. If the relationship dynamic is always one way, if there's always one guy dishing it out and the other taking it, in bed and out, how is that supposed to be interesting? What fascinates me is a relationship of equals, with both men forced to compromise and willing to do it for one another. Yaoi needs a lot more switching, IMO, both in the manga and in the fics. It is happening, the hunky seme/wide-eyed diminuitive uke formula being broken more often, but it's slow.
Don't even get me started on the random fangirl Japansese. Apparently, they must've seen a different copy of the DVD than I did, because I don't recall anyone using Japanese phrases.
*grin* They use nothing else in my DVDs, but then I've never watched more than 5 minutes of a dub! But yeah, I think it makes more sense to anglicise it to Master Knives or something, given the setting and Nightow's statements that they're supposed to be speaking English.