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Diana is touchy-feely in a very creepy way

posted 14 years ago by jeffyoung1
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Thanks to YouTube I've been able to watch the old episodes of V The Series, including those last five episodes I missed entirely in 1985 due to circumstances.

Watching it all over again, I appreciate why Jane Badler was the most popular villain of the series.

Does anyone notice how creepy that alien visitor Diana can be by the way she reaches out and touches people inappropriately? It makes your skin crawl. Often when she's setting up some hapless alien crewperson to be her patsy, she lays it on real thick, sometimes acting like a pimp. In the episode, 'The Littliest Dragon', Diana recruits an female crewmember, Angela, who is an exceptional hand-to-hand fighter. However this crewmember demonstrates unsuitable, unstable violent tendencies which resulted in her killing a fellow cadet on the alien homeworld. As a result, Inspector General Phillip engineered her expulsion from the academy, years before. Consequently, this female alien (played by Leslie Bevis) has a long grudge against Phillip, but more than ever, desires to be a commissioned officer. Diana is adept on playing on human and alien character weakness. There's no way this alien female fighter, Angela is suitable to be a commissioned officer. Nonetheless, Diana promises to promote Angela to a commissioned officer if she accompanies Phillip to Los Angeles on a raid of human resistance fighters that includes the leader, Donovan. Diana's plan is for Angela to ensure Phillip dies in the ensuing firefight. Angela's present rank is unknown, but my guess is that she is the equivalent of a noncommissioned officer, a sergeant, but how high I don't know. Diana invites Angela (who looked pretty hot in her exercise leotard and tights, common to the 1980s fashion) to her quarters. In Diana's quarters, Diana plies Angela with her scheming offer and treats of live white mice for snacks. Diana pulls her creepy, pimpish, or lesbian-like routine of caressing Angela's arms and shoulders while encouraging Angela's hate of Phillip and still hot ambition to be a commissioned officer. Diana is no bisexual; given anything, she's probably a dedicated heterosexual. But in Diana's universe of ultimate scheming and manipulation of humans, fellow aliens, subordinates, and superiors, no dirty trick is beneath her, even if she has to pull a touchy-feely, lesbian come-on to some unsuspecting, naive, gullible female crewmember, or play a touchy-feely slut to some naive, gullible male crewmember.

[–] dpcole7 14 years ago

Leaders and (some) management types use that form of touching as manipulation. Body language to confer who is in charge.

Darwin would be proud. Until somebody touchy-feelied him.

It'd be fun to see Diana and Servalan in a fight...

[–] avortac 9 years ago

I'd reckon if a female that looks like Diana (even if it is just a very believable disguise - and anyway, what woman's make-up-filled, powdered face isn't?) would start 'touchy-feeling' men, most men would be inclined to let her.

Women find sudden men's touch creepy, because they get enough manhandling whenever they want. Men are not so lucky - most men can only dream of a good-looking woman fondling them. So if it suddenly happens, it's like gates of paradise opening up and waves of euphoria flooding in.

Women are well-nourished in the 'touchy-feely' deparemtnt, most men are starving and malnourished at best. Only the high-status men are in the same position as women, and they might find Diana's touch a little creepy.

But most, intimacy-, and sex-starved men would welcome the opportunity with open arms. Diana may not be the best-looking human-lookalike on the planet, but she definitely carries an alluring sexual charm about her.

Maybe to non-bisexual/non-lesbian women her touch would also be creepy, who knows. But I don't know if actual heterosexual women even exist (I know a lot of studies that reveal that women get turned on by a lot of things, despite what they claim - whereas men usually only get turned on by the things they claim.)

I'm telling ya - if the sexbots ever arrive, or Realdolls start becoming very cheap and mass-produced, there will be a very successful "Jane Badler"-line that sells like hotcakes.

Movies and TV-shows try to sell the idea that men can only like a perfectly human-looking woman, and nothing else (like the X-Men-movie with the sexy Mystique), but I'd be willing to bet a lot that most heterosexual men would definitely find Mystique very sexy in the scene where she asks whether she's not sexy, and the actor man in that scene probably got a boner.

I wish IMDb would allow polls, so we could shed some light on this, like..

"Would you let Diana creepily touchy-feel them as much as she wants? Yes/No"

I bet the "Yes"es would conquer the poll by a landslide. Uh, bitslide?

[–] dpcole7 8 years ago

Just because a higher up uses touch on a person of the same gender doesn't mean it's about sexuality - that's an assumption.

Like Rosa Klebb from "From Russia With Love", characters will use touch as means of control and influence. Not sexual as in "I want you", not touchy as in camaraderie, but in a way to make the recipient feel icky.

Along with false promises, Diana is probably manipulating her while using touch to demonstrate control and who is in charge.