A piece of Eureka tinhattery

[rozk]

Some of us, of course, will never accept the idea that Jo Lupo is supposed to be straight. Obviously, it is perfectly possible for a woman to be that frakking butch and be straight, but somehow Eureka never convinces us of this. And the harder they try, the worse it gets, especially if you are a sad person like me to whom close reading of texts is second nature.

In a way, the Taggart thing was so implausible as to be almost funny. Now, though, they seem to be replacing the Taggart thing with something even less likely. Jo is affected by the shared dreams epidemic and in her dream she is a hapless maiden whom the evil landlord - Nathan, of course - attempts to force his will on. Only she is rescued by a thin, delicate featured person in black, with a mask and a sword, who fights him off for her. But who is this masked man? Why, he flourishes his sword and carves an F into her bodice, and proves, behind the mask, to be the irritating nerd Fargo.

This proves moreover to be her dream which he is sharing, rather than the other way around.

So, not only does Fargo have a thing for Jo; Jo, it would seem, has a thing for Fargo and for wanting to be mastered.

Or, of course, those of us in denial or obsessed with constructing femslashiness without much straw can construct this another way. A slim person in black should be carving a Z not an F, Z for Zorro which means Fox which starts with an F for Fargo. I postulate that what we are actually seeing is a denial dream in which Jo does not let herself understand that what she really wants is to be rescued by someone whose name does begin with a Z, which is to say Zoe. But Jo at a very deep level cannot accept this and so dreams of Fargo.

Or not

Comments

[resolute.livejournal.com]

hmm. Maybe I should watch this show . . . :grins:

[grammarwoman]

You _really_ should.

[doqz.livejournal.com]

It made a certain amount of sense within the episode, I guess. The whole thing with unfulfilled potenial that the conversation with sheriff brought up dealt with her dreams of being a dancer. Not really an oulandish lep than for her subconscious to associate that with her sublimated fear that she was forced to give up too much of 'feminine side,' by the nature of her family life/upbringing.

In fact, given that she ascribes her career path to an absent mother it's quite conceivible that Fargo represents a mother figure in the dream :-)

[grey-bard.livejournal.com]

Actually, liking tiny skinny girly guys might be a gateway drug to admitting to herself that she likes girls...

At least, that's been my experience with a certain now openly lesbian friend. At first she was all "You may be a lesbian, but I like manly men (at a distance)" then it was "Oh wait I like Orlando Bloom and Tom Welling" followed by "Oh wait I like girls".

Hey, it could happen!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The other possibility, of course, is that someone else was dreaming it. Jack seems the most likely suspect - that looked like the beginning of a flamenco crossed with The Mask of Zorro, and Carter is the person most likely to cast Nathan as the evil landlord, knows that Jo dreams of dancing, and that Fargo fancies Jo.

[vampwillow]

When they all woke up though Zoe looked very guilty ... Taggart and Jo seemed logical as they both like weapon pr0n, but Fargo is just an annoyance.

I did think it was interesting that they've allowed Carter to become aware of the brain zap but assumedly he couldn't have dreamt that himself so Henry must have had the guilty secret (even though I thought he hadn't gone to sleep?)

[rozk.livejournal.com]

Did the brain zap go all the way into the subconscious? Jack may know more than he knows he knows.