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Originally Posted by issybird
No one's mentioned "Steve Burns" yet. My reaction throughout was the term gmw employed, "self-indulgent." Naming a character after himself encapsulated this for me.
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Why didn't I spot that? Despite the fact that I was thinking Steve was a "Mary Sue" character.
Fry is happily married now but he was single for a long time and I remember him being public about being celibate*. This could have been written during that time, not sure of the dates, and it would make a certain amount of sense. As I said in my first post, I don't think the romantic relationships, gay or straight, feel particularly real.
(*he used to talk about being gay as being a bit like having a car in the garage, it's a bit what kind it is if you never drive it.)