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Journey to Babel subtext
An example of subtext: When Bodie and Doyle have a different set of rooms every time they are shown at home in [[The Professionals]], the subtext might be, "CI5 agents have to move often for security reasons," or "These characters are so unstable that they can't keep the same apartment for long." The subtext intended by the show's creators, if any, can be intuited through dialogue, continuity, bits of stage business and so on. For example, a line about how much they're paid can help to determine if they're choosing to move that frequently (expensive) or if CI5 pays for their housing and/or assigns them to live in different places.
An example of subtext: When Bodie and Doyle have a different set of rooms every time they are shown at home in [[The Professionals]], the subtext might be, "CI5 agents have to move often for security reasons," or "These characters are so unstable that they can't keep the same apartment for long." The subtext intended by the show's creators, if any, can be intuited through dialogue, continuity, bits of stage business and so on. For example, a line about how much they're paid can help to determine if they're choosing to move that frequently (expensive) or if CI5 pays for their housing and/or assigns them to live in different places.
In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Journey to Babel", Spock volunteers to donate blood for his father's heart operation. Christine Chapel says Spock's blood "isn't true Vulcan blood either, it, ah -- has human -- blood elements in it." Spock replies, "It should be possible to filter out the human factors." Whether or not a viewer has been following the show and knows the characters, the theatrical subtext is clear: Chapel loves Spock, because he's a Vulcan he can't respond, but he's also part human and she wishes she could connect with that aspect of his nature (but knows she cannot). Filtering out the human factors is exactly what he's been doing with his entire life. These lines are significant to their characters and to this episode in particular (as a subsequent scene with Spock and his mother demonstrates). It's all conveyed in her regretful expression and slight stammer, and his matter-of-fact response.
==Subtext and Authorial Intent==
==Subtext and Authorial Intent==