I actually think the single best thing about this show might be the way JFlan plays against type. I mean, from the word go, he's played the character against action-hero tropes and against type, and sometimes right against the dialog. It's turned John into such an incredibly quirky, fascinating, unexpected, real character who I love in just about every way it's possible to love, when he could have been just a Big Dumb Hero. Given that the writing did set him up as kind of a flirty heterosexual playboy, the way he plays against that... yeah. He comes off as gay.
And I think this fandom has done such incredible things with reading John as gay, in addition to (as distinct from) just slashy. It's... one of my favorite things about this fandom, and it's ALL made possible by JFlan being just brilliant. Uh, I was having a discussion about it here (http://siegeofangels.livejournal.com/419084.html?thread=1231372#t1231372), and if you haven't read that fic, you REALLY should.
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Date: 2008-08-30 03:11 am (UTC)And I think this fandom has done such incredible things with reading John as gay, in addition to (as distinct from) just slashy. It's... one of my favorite things about this fandom, and it's ALL made possible by JFlan being just brilliant. Uh, I was having a discussion about it here (http://siegeofangels.livejournal.com/419084.html?thread=1231372#t1231372), and if you haven't read that fic, you REALLY should.