Like Rivka, I totally disagree with the thought that L&C's waiting "cheapened their passion". I realize that it is no longer traditional - or even "normal" (whatever that means) - for couples to wait until they're married to sleep together, so I wouldn't have been critical if the show hadn't made them wait. And I realize that probably the main reason the writers made this decision was in deference to the young viewers. But they justified it with plot/character reasons, and I personally found it incredibly sexy that these two characters - where one could literally feel the electricity sparking between the two - would wait to be married first.
And on a side note, I read both gfic and nfic versions of the story, and I personally don't think it lost any of its intensity in the conversion. Yes, if you want to read detailed descriptions of their activities together, the gfic version would not be the place to do it. But all the angst and all the love and passion that fuels these characters is definitely still there in the gfic version. Sue did a great job of the conversion, with tasteful fadeouts, language choices, less provocative description - those only reading the gfic version are not losing anything, in my opinion.
Kathy
