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At any rate, you're right... Walt/Henry is pretty obvious wrt Longmire. That being said, I think because the lead men are both over 45 or 50 (Robert Taylor and Lou Diamond Phillips), the series in general skewed older and therefore less popular with "the kids" (plus I guess A&E cancelled it for a reason -- it likely didn't have a juggernaut of young fans).
Plus it's a *Western*... and my perception of the demographics for those is, well, let's say "red state" and leave it at that. So the combo of "red state" and "older audience" leads me to conclude maybe there aren't a ton of older fen into slashing the two male leads. There is a ton of Walt/Vic, the obvious m/f pairing (and very May/December... he's mid-50s and she's, what, early 30s) (and I do see that chemistry, I totally do, but it doesn't do as much for me, alas).
You could be right about other fen thinking "no one will read this" because there is already so little fic... bummer.
I found S2 of TD to be, well, I guess less Southern-Gothic-swamp-atmospheric... more LA-sleazy noir. There is a long tradition of LA/SoCal noir and deep corruption going way back, and S2 had that feel for me. But it definitely didn't have the deeply unsettling atmospherics of S1, I think because from jump, S2 had the feel of deep human corruption, whereas S2 had that combination of possible supernatural evil as well as the dark side of nature, the inherent rot of moist swamps and marshland.
S1 was very ...nature textured. S2, much more techno, industrial, glossy. S1 seemed very... biological, if you will. S2 was more... human. Even though ultimately the evil of S1 was completely human corruption too, that was not how it played through most of the season.
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At any rate, you're right... Walt/Henry is pretty obvious wrt Longmire. That being said, I think because the lead men are both over 45 or 50 (Robert Taylor and Lou Diamond Phillips), the series in general skewed older and therefore less popular with "the kids" (plus I guess A&E cancelled it for a reason -- it likely didn't have a juggernaut of young fans).
Plus it's a *Western*... and my perception of the demographics for those is, well, let's say "red state" and leave it at that. So the combo of "red state" and "older audience" leads me to conclude maybe there aren't a ton of older fen into slashing the two male leads. There is a ton of Walt/Vic, the obvious m/f pairing (and very May/December... he's mid-50s and she's, what, early 30s) (and I do see that chemistry, I totally do, but it doesn't do as much for me, alas).
You could be right about other fen thinking "no one will read this" because there is already so little fic... bummer.
I found S2 of TD to be, well, I guess less Southern-Gothic-swamp-atmospheric... more LA-sleazy noir. There is a long tradition of LA/SoCal noir and deep corruption going way back, and S2 had that feel for me. But it definitely didn't have the deeply unsettling atmospherics of S1, I think because from jump, S2 had the feel of deep human corruption, whereas S2 had that combination of possible supernatural evil as well as the dark side of nature, the inherent rot of moist swamps and marshland.
S1 was very ...nature textured. S2, much more techno, industrial, glossy. S1 seemed very... biological, if you will. S2 was more... human. Even though ultimately the evil of S1 was completely human corruption too, that was not how it played through most of the season.