Perhaps because I really, really wanted to believe in J/7, I never found the parent-child stuff to be very convincing. To me, the more obvious it became, the less believable it was. It was Paramount Panic on Parade--"OMG! Some people think this is lesbian! We'd better fix it quick. I know! Let's make Janeway act fondly condescending to Seven and call it maternal. Let's make Seven into a big, silly kid. Let's have her play with Naomi! Let's give her a teenage boy for a pal! What? This isn't working? Fans are still talking about lezzie subtext? Okay, what Seven needs is a good guy fuck. THAT'll do it."
I'm probably being unfair. But I hated a) C/7, and not just from a shipper standpoint. It was seriously bad writing, seriously bad characterization; b) the way they infantilized Seven over the years; and c) how they came to marginalize Janeway when they weren't busy sacrificing her character consistency to the vagaries of plot.
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Date: 2005-01-06 05:19 pm (UTC)I'm probably being unfair. But I hated a) C/7, and not just from a shipper standpoint. It was seriously bad writing, seriously bad characterization; b) the way they infantilized Seven over the years; and c) how they came to marginalize Janeway when they weren't busy sacrificing her character consistency to the vagaries of plot.