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minus-squareflicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·6 days ago“What I added to that in that first episode was a sexual ambiguity about Garak. In that very first scene when he meets Dr. Bashir it’s clear as a bell— and this was my choice—that he was sexually attracted to this good-looking young Starfleet doctor. And although they didn’t follow that up with an explicitly gay character, that ambiguity about Garak remained.” Andrew Robinson, that actor who played Garak, intentionally added that subtext.
minus-squareSatyrSack@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 days agoI absolutely believe that was the actors’s intent, but I still just do not see it. Other people definitely do, but I think I am just too oblivious to that sort of thing.
minus-squareflicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoIt’s fair to be oblivious to sexual and romantic subtext. At least you’re aware that you have that issue.
“What I added to that in that first episode was a sexual ambiguity about Garak. In that very first scene when he meets Dr. Bashir it’s clear as a bell— and this was my choice—that he was sexually attracted to this good-looking young Starfleet doctor. And although they didn’t follow that up with an explicitly gay character, that ambiguity about Garak remained.”
Andrew Robinson, that actor who played Garak, intentionally added that subtext.
I absolutely believe that was the actors’s intent, but I still just do not see it. Other people definitely do, but I think I am just too oblivious to that sort of thing.
It’s fair to be oblivious to sexual and romantic subtext. At least you’re aware that you have that issue.