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Is it my imagination or is 90 per cent of Due South fandom composed of Americans & other foreign nationals and 100 per cent of DS slashers?
Admittedly, I refer only to a small peer group of myself, my friend Lady J and Ell (and associated relations), but the last thing that comes to any of our minds when we watched Due South was slash. My theory is that this is due to cultural lenses and that viewing Due South as a Canadian as opposed to as Canadiana affects how you perceive Vecchio & Fraser (I will spot you Kowalski). I mean, it's not like there aren't gay Mounties. And it's always possible that this is just some weird Internet thing or the fact that when I watched DS on TV more than a decade ago, I already had a massive crush on Paul Gross, who was already something of a matinee idol in Canada in those days.
It's interesting sometimes to poke into fandom's guts and see the way identity refracts meaning in storytelling.
Admittedly, I refer only to a small peer group of myself, my friend Lady J and Ell (and associated relations), but the last thing that comes to any of our minds when we watched Due South was slash. My theory is that this is due to cultural lenses and that viewing Due South as a Canadian as opposed to as Canadiana affects how you perceive Vecchio & Fraser (I will spot you Kowalski). I mean, it's not like there aren't gay Mounties. And it's always possible that this is just some weird Internet thing or the fact that when I watched DS on TV more than a decade ago, I already had a massive crush on Paul Gross, who was already something of a matinee idol in Canada in those days.
It's interesting sometimes to poke into fandom's guts and see the way identity refracts meaning in storytelling.