Our canon and taboos.

[laurenthemself]

I was just discussing this with new member jennorhbc on her LJ and I'm copying it here, because I think we should talk about it more.

The thing is that if you think about it, the show's totally fucked up in terms of potential romantic interests. Lister/Kochanski? Incest. Lister/Rimmer? Necrophilia. Lister/Cat? Bestiality. Lister/Kryten? Robophilia. Lister/Holly? Don't even go there, I don't know what the hell you'd call that.

And GO. I want to know what people think about this stuff, especially the part where Kochanski is Lister's mother and he still pursues her even after he knows this.

(Yeah, I know they're not all slash pairings, but the holy word of mod decrees that what the hell, let's talk about it anyway.)

Comments

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

It depends on what you'd call "necrophilia," I think. You could regard Rimmer's hologram as a dead man - or you could look at it as the consciousness divorced from the corporeal body. Possibly if there's a soul that exists, it hung around and waited for the hologram to be brought online to inhabit ... but even if that's NOT the case, Rimmer's holographic self grows and learns and changes. Whether A.I. that can become sentient would have the same rights and standing as people is a debate that's been going for some time.

Good way to bring up a science-fiction discussion! Rob Grant might well be proud. :-)