Seriously, it's really funny (as in "peculiar"), how that particular character gets revisioned in such a cod-romantic manner. It's as if a certain percentage of the readership are determined to work out their own cranky-older-men-are-hot issues by overlapping them onto a particularly difficult - and asexual - character. It's a bit of a shame, since Severus is fascinating on his own without the added Black Velvet Fluff.
Just to get the obvious punching bag out of the way: I don't think Alan Rickman can be soley blamed for that revisioning, although the choice of casting him may perhaps pander to it. Whether or not one likes him, or what he's doing with the film role*, he isn't acting the role of The Sexy Yet Stern Schoolteacher. And even a certian amount of folks who avoid the movies and stick to the books fall prey to conflating Severus Snape with the SYSS vibe.
*I think most of you know where I stand on THAT issue. Why, Tim Roth, WHY???
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Don't Stand So Close To Me, Severus
Date: 2006-12-02 02:58 pm (UTC)THANKS FOR SHARING,
Seriously, it's really funny (as in "peculiar"), how that particular character gets revisioned in such a cod-romantic manner. It's as if a certain percentage of the readership are determined to work out their own cranky-older-men-are-hot issues by overlapping them onto a particularly difficult - and asexual - character. It's a bit of a shame, since Severus is fascinating on his own without the added Black Velvet Fluff.
Just to get the obvious punching bag out of the way: I don't think Alan Rickman can be soley blamed for that revisioning, although the choice of casting him may perhaps pander to it. Whether or not one likes him, or what he's doing with the film role*, he isn't acting the role of The Sexy Yet Stern Schoolteacher. And even a certian amount of folks who avoid the movies and stick to the books fall prey to conflating Severus Snape with the SYSS vibe.
*I think most of you know where I stand on THAT issue. Why, Tim Roth, WHY???