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[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

[jennorhbc.livejournal.com]

hi, the new person here :). I posted part of this comment in the original discussion thing on my journal but I thought I'd put it here to. I don't know if I'd view the Lister/Rimmer thing as necrophilia since he's not like a reanimated corpse, more like an electronic version of someone but maybe that's just me. But, with Kochanski, I always get the feeling with that they tried to focus more on her being his ex and barely even glanced on her being his mom but if they had, I don't know, treated it more... realistically, I guess? it's hard to think someone wouldn't have a problem hitting on their own mother. I like to think that maybe Lister couldn't deal with the fact he was picturing an alternate version of his mom on a white horse and that it was such a big coping mechanism for him, being the last man alive and all, eventually getting her back, that he suppressed the knowledge into a little ball until he could pretend it wasn't real. And, really, wanting to delude yourself into thinking you finally have a chance at everything you think you've ever wanted isn't too hard to believe someone would delude themselves over. Though, it seems like it would just have to bug him at some point and he'd get over it.