Cimorene

Oh, no. I'm not saying the ep excludes all but slashy interpretations. What it does, to me, is shove the slashy interpretation in my face, going nyah-nyah and just making it very clear that yeah, though the K/S is overwhelming, I shouldn't maybe be so harsh with people who want to, um, explore other possibilities. Because what's going on in that one scene is a stereotypical lead-in to some serious fucking (though it wasn't all that stereotypical way back when) and hi, if I'm going to be this gung-ho about the amazingness of not-random slashy readings, yeah. (But what I said. Out of all of canon, it's so small an not to matter. And I do kind of want these people on some other Internets so I don't have to see them even if it makes me a bigot of some sort.)

I love the shared best friend thing! I love how Kirk and Spock have their own dynamic, and Kirk and McCoy have their own, as do McCoy and Spock, and the three of them together. I love how Kirk teases Spock about the strictly-logical thing in this gentle, amused way, like, he gets it. While with McCoy I'm always suspecting his way of thinking is ...I don't know, too black-and-white? And he gets exasperated because you'd have to be dimmer than McCoy to miss that Spock does have emotions, just--there's a difference to human experience of them or, something, but he doesn't really get that distinction and he's pushing all the time for pretty much the wrong thing. But there's also the respect and affection and best friends and ♥! (I'm sure I've articulated that better sometime but, you know, preaching to the choir, aren't I, so maybe I don't have to make it better.)

I have no idea if I just made any sense. Distracted, distracted.