I think we essentially believe the same thing, only... I don't really know what your point is, because Amy is positing the situation as 'what if Sam felt of it as rape', not saying that he necessarily did. She's exploring an avenue of alternative interpretation. Which is what we all do, to varying degrees.
To see outright rape here, IMO, requires investing the script with a degree of subtlety that I don't think is in there, really. So I tend to go with what the script/scenes explicitly say, because in this case, I see no compelling reason to go against it.
Don't we do that with the entire series? (Any series, or novel, or film, or song?) If you only ever go with 'what we see', doesn't that limit the stories you can tell, the themes you can explore, just a little bit? Doesn't it strip the text of its multiplicity of interpretations. Also, obviously, what we see may be the same, but how we react to it will depend upon our own perceptions.
So, uh, for me, I can see that it could/should have been explored with less levity --- if not from the other boys, at least from Sam. He was handcuffed, he was drugged, the whole sequence is rather horrific - with shots of a giant cat (ho ho, symbolism), Sam's mother (ho ho, Freudian symbolism) and Gene (ho ho, actually, no comment, none at all) - so yes, to me, it's problematic and once again, I am glad it was questioned, because that's what transformative works are for.
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Date: 2007-12-19 11:15 pm (UTC)To see outright rape here, IMO, requires investing the script with a degree of subtlety that I don't think is in there, really. So I tend to go with what the script/scenes explicitly say, because in this case, I see no compelling reason to go against it.
Don't we do that with the entire series? (Any series, or novel, or film, or song?) If you only ever go with 'what we see', doesn't that limit the stories you can tell, the themes you can explore, just a little bit? Doesn't it strip the text of its multiplicity of interpretations. Also, obviously, what we see may be the same, but how we react to it will depend upon our own perceptions.
So, uh, for me, I can see that it could/should have been explored with less levity --- if not from the other boys, at least from Sam. He was handcuffed, he was drugged, the whole sequence is rather horrific - with shots of a giant cat (ho ho, symbolism), Sam's mother (ho ho, Freudian symbolism) and Gene (ho ho, actually, no comment, none at all) - so yes, to me, it's problematic and once again, I am glad it was questioned, because that's what transformative works are for.