It really is amazing how close they allowed them to be before they panicked about the gay hints. *sigh* I swear, the only people who would not love for this to happen were the red-tape people. The writers, the fans, and even the actors would probably have been game.
*Is now lost in daydreaming about what should have been*
Yeah, I hated how, later in the series, they hardly spent any on-screen time together at all, and when they did, they were like strangers. What a waste!
I'm sort of bitter about it. O'Brien has a lot to answer for, stealing Bashir from Garak like that... *glares in the vague direction of O'Brien and the doctor*
>It was my understanding that Alexander Siddig was against portraying them >as gay...
Really? I hadn't heard that. Do you remember where you read it?
I'm pretty sure I remember reading in the DS9 Companion that Robinson mentioned he and Sid joked about it.
The worst thing is, if DS9 were made now, or even just a few years after it was, it might have happened. I used to fantasize on how DS9 might have looked if it were done on HBO...
I remember reading that too. Sid seemed very open to the idea of a 'fling' anyway. Maybe not the gay-romance of the century like we fangirls would like to think, but hey, just a kiss would have sent the world spinning backwards.
I may be wrong about that...I though I had read that on the wiki article and then when I went back and read it again I think it was the fans and not Siddig that was against it.
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Date: 2009-04-24 12:38 am (UTC)*sighs*
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Date: 2009-04-24 02:36 am (UTC)Really? I hadn't heard that. Do you remember where you read it?
I'm pretty sure I remember reading in the DS9 Companion that Robinson mentioned he and Sid joked about it.
The worst thing is, if DS9 were made now, or even just a few years after it was, it might have happened. I used to fantasize on how DS9 might have looked if it were done on HBO...
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Date: 2009-04-24 07:17 am (UTC)*sigh*
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