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Oct. 20th, 2016 09:29 pm1. I'm falling in fannish love for Joss Whedon again...weirdly. I've loved his last two interviews. And what he wrote on Tumblr about Hillary was wonderfully moving. The latest? This charming interview where he admits that he was a Buffy/Spike shipper all along.
I feel validated. Been arguing that for years with crazy Spike and Angel shippers.
Come on, people, Spike was a heck of a lot more fun for the writer to write, and he didn't have all that much involvement with the Angel series, that was Greenwalt and Minear's baby. It wasn't until the last two seasons that Whedon was heavily involved.
{Okay enough ego stroking. I figure no on has been reading this anyway, so it doesn't matter.)
2. Frequency is bugging me -- the time travel story line doesn't quite work. They have things change in the past, but the main character isn't really all that affected in the future, physically.
The main character hunts down this killer in the present, while her father hunts him in the past. He beats her up. She beats him up. And when she's about to kill him, he disappears, because he got hit by a bus in the past, while her Dad was chasing him. So he disappears, and she's still banged up from fighting him, and still remembers all of it.
She shouldn't be banged up at all. Since it didn't happen. Nor should she remember any of it. Because didn't happen. She didn't travel back in time. So what, is there some mystical bubble around her that enables her to remember one time line and be physically affected by it, as well as the other? Also other people should be positively and negatively affected in various ways not just the protagonist. There should be more of a ripple effect.
This is my problem with Time Travel stories...the science doesn't quite gell. Timeless' writers are doing a better job of it than Frequency.
Lastly, because I've seen a lot of people arguing about this online: Buffy/Spike or Buffy/Angel?
I’m a Buffy/Spike shipper. I always felt like he was a more evolved person, but that’s like saying Juliet’s going to be so happy with Benvolio and everyone will love it. Buffy/Angel is for the ages; Buffy/Spike is maybe for me. Actually, I’m a Spike/Angel shipper. Completely re-write the equation.
I feel validated. Been arguing that for years with crazy Spike and Angel shippers.
Come on, people, Spike was a heck of a lot more fun for the writer to write, and he didn't have all that much involvement with the Angel series, that was Greenwalt and Minear's baby. It wasn't until the last two seasons that Whedon was heavily involved.
{Okay enough ego stroking. I figure no on has been reading this anyway, so it doesn't matter.)
2. Frequency is bugging me -- the time travel story line doesn't quite work. They have things change in the past, but the main character isn't really all that affected in the future, physically.
The main character hunts down this killer in the present, while her father hunts him in the past. He beats her up. She beats him up. And when she's about to kill him, he disappears, because he got hit by a bus in the past, while her Dad was chasing him. So he disappears, and she's still banged up from fighting him, and still remembers all of it.
She shouldn't be banged up at all. Since it didn't happen. Nor should she remember any of it. Because didn't happen. She didn't travel back in time. So what, is there some mystical bubble around her that enables her to remember one time line and be physically affected by it, as well as the other? Also other people should be positively and negatively affected in various ways not just the protagonist. There should be more of a ripple effect.
This is my problem with Time Travel stories...the science doesn't quite gell. Timeless' writers are doing a better job of it than Frequency.