Wednesday just wants to sleep for a week
Nov. 12th, 2025 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI'm tired and sleep deprived, and it's catching up to me. Through no fault of my own - I keep waking up at 1 or 2 AM in the morning and can't fall back asleep - due to digestive issues. I also had the A/C on low, because of the radiators, which I can't seem to get turned off. The down-side of living in a 77 unit apartment complex, where some areas are freezing and some are warm.
Almost done with Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik - my difficulty with it is the writing style doesn't work for me. Too many changes in points of view, not helped by the fact that they are all in first person and sound the same, and it's about three to four paragraphs into each before I figure out which one I'm actually in. This would be easier to follow, if I weren't sleep deprived, doing what it is that I do for a living, and reading it via the kindle in snatches on subway rides. If it weren't for all those doctor appointments - I'd not have gotten to the 94% mark.
Finished rewatching "This Year's Girl" and "Who Are You" - Faith Episodes on Buffy S4 Rewatch. Who Are You is the better episode - partly because Gellar is a better actress than Dusku. And manages to play Faith without any extraneous mannerisms. And partly because there's no Mayor, not a lot of Adam, and the focus is where it should be on the Faith/Buffy relationship.
I realized recently why I dislike the S3 Faith/Mayor arc so much? I was reminded of why again in This Year's Girl (the first part of the arc where Faith wakes up) - Before Faith wakes up, she has a series of dreams about Buffy - dreams about a cozy picnic with the Mayor and having Buffy attacking her and slicing through her fantasy. Ugh. They changed a uber-feminist who could care less about guys, and was more into Buffy and Joyce dynamic, into a poor whiny murderous waif with Daddy Issues, and a bit too heavy on the phallic snake metaphor. (Although it is a joke here.) And? Whedon did the exact same thing to Dusku's character in Dollhouse. The exact same thing - took a feminist character and turned her into a male play thing, with Daddy Issues. Not helped, if you know Dusku's backstory and why she left acting. (If you don't know? Trust me on this? You really don't want to.)
There are things that save the episodes. But my attention wandered more during these two episodes than previous ones. In part, because the Buffy/Riley romance doesn't work and is kind of boring? Actually Faith sleeping with Riley in Buffy's body, and Riley not noticing anything - and actually telling her that he loves her (it's the first time he does) - doesn't help. Nor does Adam. He's more annoying than I'd remembered. Walsh was the better villain and her absence is felt. The writers don't appear to know what to do with him? He's like a creepy Frankenstein character by way of a motivational speaker cult for vampires. What saves the episodes are the Faith/Buffy dynamic, Spike, Willow, Xander and Giles. And all the foreshadowing of later seasons - clarifying that Whedon did have a plan as to where he was headed - which I hadn't noticed before.
The best episodes in S4 are actually the ones without Adam in them?
Off to bed.
Almost done with Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik - my difficulty with it is the writing style doesn't work for me. Too many changes in points of view, not helped by the fact that they are all in first person and sound the same, and it's about three to four paragraphs into each before I figure out which one I'm actually in. This would be easier to follow, if I weren't sleep deprived, doing what it is that I do for a living, and reading it via the kindle in snatches on subway rides. If it weren't for all those doctor appointments - I'd not have gotten to the 94% mark.
Finished rewatching "This Year's Girl" and "Who Are You" - Faith Episodes on Buffy S4 Rewatch. Who Are You is the better episode - partly because Gellar is a better actress than Dusku. And manages to play Faith without any extraneous mannerisms. And partly because there's no Mayor, not a lot of Adam, and the focus is where it should be on the Faith/Buffy relationship.
I realized recently why I dislike the S3 Faith/Mayor arc so much? I was reminded of why again in This Year's Girl (the first part of the arc where Faith wakes up) - Before Faith wakes up, she has a series of dreams about Buffy - dreams about a cozy picnic with the Mayor and having Buffy attacking her and slicing through her fantasy. Ugh. They changed a uber-feminist who could care less about guys, and was more into Buffy and Joyce dynamic, into a poor whiny murderous waif with Daddy Issues, and a bit too heavy on the phallic snake metaphor. (Although it is a joke here.) And? Whedon did the exact same thing to Dusku's character in Dollhouse. The exact same thing - took a feminist character and turned her into a male play thing, with Daddy Issues. Not helped, if you know Dusku's backstory and why she left acting. (If you don't know? Trust me on this? You really don't want to.)
There are things that save the episodes. But my attention wandered more during these two episodes than previous ones. In part, because the Buffy/Riley romance doesn't work and is kind of boring? Actually Faith sleeping with Riley in Buffy's body, and Riley not noticing anything - and actually telling her that he loves her (it's the first time he does) - doesn't help. Nor does Adam. He's more annoying than I'd remembered. Walsh was the better villain and her absence is felt. The writers don't appear to know what to do with him? He's like a creepy Frankenstein character by way of a motivational speaker cult for vampires. What saves the episodes are the Faith/Buffy dynamic, Spike, Willow, Xander and Giles. And all the foreshadowing of later seasons - clarifying that Whedon did have a plan as to where he was headed - which I hadn't noticed before.
The best episodes in S4 are actually the ones without Adam in them?
Off to bed.