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Author: sanjiansanjian Date: Sep 16, 2008 03:37
Lee Ratner wrote:
> On Sep 15, 5:36 pm, David Johnston block.net> wrote:>> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:34:37 -0700 (PDT), Lee Ratner
>> They could have made that character Joan of Arc. The reason they
>> didn't was not for fan service but to throw in a twist.
>
> No, I disagree. The reason they made Sabre, King Arthur rather
> than Joan of Arc was to stimulate certain male fantasies, mainly of
> the ice queen variety. A common fantasy for men is to encounter a
The ice queen need not LITTERALLY be a queen. (Saber as a drag queen?)
> beautiful woman who for one reason or another lost touch with her
> womanly loving nature and be the person who rekindles that woman's
> feminine, loving qualities. This would not really work for Joan of Arc
> because Joan was always acknowledged as a woman. To have Saber pretend
I'm not entirely sure that's exactly true, but I'll have to do some more
research to be sure. None the less, you can still have Joan toss away a
good deal of her feminimity for her task.
My guess is they wanted the sword.
> to be a man and suppress everything feminine about her takes the
> fantasy to the max.
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