The Treatment
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Treatment |
| Author(s): | Bryn Lantry |
| Date(s): | 1997 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | Avon/Blake |
| Fandom(s): | Blake's 7 |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | at AO3 |
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The Treatment is a Blake's 7 Avon/Blake story by Bryn Lantry.
It was originally printed in Risk and is now online.
Summary
"Discovering that Blake was gay before the Federation's tampering, Avon resolves to undo the conditioning. But his own suspect motives prove dangerous." [1]
Reactions and Reviews
The Treatment (published in Risk! a WG/B7 mixed 'zine. Another excellent treatment of the idea that Blake's sexuality has been messed-about-with. The sex is awkward but hot, exactly what I mean in the comment on my general recs page about 'not too perfect'. The angst is heavy but believable, and there's one of the best subtly-underplayed Jenna-finding-out scenes I've ever read in an Avon/Blake story. [2]
I *loved* this story. One of my favorite themes in slash is characters not knowing their own motivations, and she does a wonderful job with an Avon that *thinks* he knows why he's doing certain things...until suddenly he starts to question, possibly after it is too late. (It also made me wonder: I haven't really been a B7 fan in years, and it may be more of an achievement to get a former fan of a show excited than it would be to interest a new fan in a show they haven't seen.) It was clever of the editor to put this story first of the B7 ones: it made me more interested in the other B7 in the zine than I otherwise would have been. [3]
An old comrade of Blake's tells Avon that Blake is gay. Avon is suspicious, but decides he owes it to Blake to discover the truth if his sexuality has been suppressed by Federation conditioning. This (as is so common in [Bryn's] work) is a story with shades of half-truths and self-deception. How much is Avon lying to himself about his own desires and intentions? A good story that well repays re-reading. [4]
References
- ^ Judith Proctor's Blake's 7 site
- ^ 2002 comments by Predatrix
- ^ In 1997, Sandy Herrold posted a this review of the zine to the Virgule mailing list. It is posted here with permission.
- ^ from Judith Proctor