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dreamer_easyOK kids, I have an SFnal challenge for you.
You'll remember controversy over Owen's use of an alien spray in the very first episode of Torchwood to seduce first a woman he fancies, then her boyfriend. Owen sprays himself with the stuff, and anger and indifference turn at once to overwhelming lust, in a parody of those Lynx ads.
Now, RTD and Julie Gardner are completely blithe about this in the DVD commentary. And it suddenly hit me: the spray doesn't affect the couple; it only affects Owen - at least, that's the intention.
Every theory I've come up with about how the spray works has assumed it somehow affected the couple - meaning this was a variety of drug rape. Even if it made Owen shoot out superpowerful pheremones or something, that's still affecting the other people rather than him.
So thinking caps on: what the heck could the spray do only to Owen that made him suddenly irresistable?
In the meantime, some links for u:
Ianto and Jack both make afterelton.com's list of Ten Best Gay and Bisexual Science Fiction Characters. "...Jack and some of the other characters in the series represent an almost “post-gay” approach to sexual themes, in which sexual identity is represented as fluid and complicated, and, more importantly, as not a big deal. It simply is what it is."
Some really terrific analysis of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crabby_lioness.
And some icons that are just gosh darn funny. :-)
You'll remember controversy over Owen's use of an alien spray in the very first episode of Torchwood to seduce first a woman he fancies, then her boyfriend. Owen sprays himself with the stuff, and anger and indifference turn at once to overwhelming lust, in a parody of those Lynx ads.
Now, RTD and Julie Gardner are completely blithe about this in the DVD commentary. And it suddenly hit me: the spray doesn't affect the couple; it only affects Owen - at least, that's the intention.
Every theory I've come up with about how the spray works has assumed it somehow affected the couple - meaning this was a variety of drug rape. Even if it made Owen shoot out superpowerful pheremones or something, that's still affecting the other people rather than him.
So thinking caps on: what the heck could the spray do only to Owen that made him suddenly irresistable?
In the meantime, some links for u:
Ianto and Jack both make afterelton.com's list of Ten Best Gay and Bisexual Science Fiction Characters. "...Jack and some of the other characters in the series represent an almost “post-gay” approach to sexual themes, in which sexual identity is represented as fluid and complicated, and, more importantly, as not a big deal. It simply is what it is."
Some really terrific analysis of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang from
crabby_lioness.And some icons that are just gosh darn funny. :-)
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Date: 2008-01-24 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-24 10:39 pm (UTC)Giving it a little more thought...
Owen's real sleaziness if it doesn't come from actual rape is certainly apparent in his taking pleasure in breaking up other people's relationships. An argument can be made that this is due to the spray's influence on Owen, similar to how the glove changed Suzie. Repeated use might have compromised Owen's will, making him take some form of sadistic pleasure in other's pain. He even laments it in a future episode once he's out of the spray's influence....