"hey, looking at these matching gold rings that canonically engaged couple JJ & Isabella are wearing makes me want to go buy a matching set of expensive gold wedding bands to wear on our wedding band fingers and exhange them with Victor on the steps of a church -- it will be just like that time my high school handicrafts club sewed matching bookmarks for everyone!"
Hee! Nicely stated.
Personally, it always seemed to me like the show was trying to maintain a thin film of plausible deniability so that the audience could interpret things in whichever way they wanted, so hearing Kubo say "I tried to keep things ambiguous so that people could interpret things whichever way they wanted" feels like a vindication of that impression, even if I would have preferred for the series itself to make the Victuuri relationship more explicitly canonical. (Like, that amazingly forward-thinking anime about the two male skaters who actually for-real kiss and then get for-real engaged and there's no ambiguity at all and it's the most progressive thing ever? I wanted to watch that show! But I never felt like that was actually the series that was on my screen, if that makes sense.)
I guess one upside to the wiggle room is that it leaves the door open for lots of shipfic featuring humorous misunderstandings and UST-filled pining where Yuuri thinks he gave Victor a $700 friendship bookmark but secretly wants it to be something more. Or at least, as a fan of pining and misunderstandings, I hope that's the direction that some of fandom decides to go in. :V But for sure, the best thing about fic is that we have the freedom to imagine + write whatever we want.
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Hee! Nicely stated.
Personally, it always seemed to me like the show was trying to maintain a thin film of plausible deniability so that the audience could interpret things in whichever way they wanted, so hearing Kubo say "I tried to keep things ambiguous so that people could interpret things whichever way they wanted" feels like a vindication of that impression, even if I would have preferred for the series itself to make the Victuuri relationship more explicitly canonical. (Like, that amazingly forward-thinking anime about the two male skaters who actually for-real kiss and then get for-real engaged and there's no ambiguity at all and it's the most progressive thing ever? I wanted to watch that show! But I never felt like that was actually the series that was on my screen, if that makes sense.)
I guess one upside to the wiggle room is that it leaves the door open for lots of shipfic featuring humorous misunderstandings and UST-filled pining where Yuuri thinks he gave Victor a $700 friendship bookmark but secretly wants it to be something more. Or at least, as a fan of pining and misunderstandings, I hope that's the direction that some of fandom decides to go in. :V But for sure, the best thing about fic is that we have the freedom to imagine + write whatever we want.