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

[diminua.livejournal.com]

To be honest, back when watching the shows (I've watched the early shows again recently but not series 7 or 8) I did find it weird Lister was still interested in Kochanski after finding out she was his mother. In fact I still do - but at the same time I can see that the simple fact that she was the only other human being alive would be more important than the fact she was his mother, and how the need for human intimacy, and the knowledge no-one was around to judge, might overrule those other considerations.

As far as Lister/Rimmer goes I'm with Lister - as in 'But you're not dead dead are you?' Rimmer is more sort of differently alive.