Oh - I've finished watching the third disc, 2.12. So did see the confession scene. Wonderful scene.
But she's used to living that way, and though it angers her to be treated as an object, she's got this resignation about it. She moves on.
Not sure this is true. JM wasn't - he hadn't been a sex symbol until the Spike character, was a theater geek - so it fucked him up a bit. In some ways, Marsters experience fits more with JEnny. While Boreanze, who was used to it, had in fact been selected for the role of Angel based on it, shrugs it off. (So JM=Jenny, Boreanze=Shane)With my brother, he dealt with it a little like Shane, distanced himself, shrugged it off, sort of like Boreanze.
Jenny, on the other hand--we are only starting to get into her sex/power issues at this point in the season, but she's got some major issues surrounding it and they inform her reaction to Mark. But I like how she doesn't let him get away with making even the fall-out of his sins "all about him", so that she, the violeted, is invisible again.
Being seen as a sex object has screwed with her head a bit. Which makes sense and I identify with. She's used to retreating, being invisible. Hidden behind words. And her interaction with Mark in a way comments on her past with other men as well - the fact that she has catered so much to their whims. Part of the reason she gets the hair cut is because of Mark - his comment that he sees her as still straight. Getting the hair-cut in a way is similar to her confrontation with him - telling him to stop telling her who she is and making her life into his story. (It's ironic - because Jenny last season was doing somewhat the same thing - making it all about her, or so we perceived.)
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Date: 2005-11-13 05:59 pm (UTC)But she's used to living that way, and though it angers her to be treated as an object, she's got this resignation about it. She moves on.
Not sure this is true. JM wasn't - he hadn't been a sex symbol until the Spike character, was a theater geek - so it fucked him up a bit. In some ways, Marsters experience fits more with JEnny. While Boreanze, who was used to it, had in fact been selected for the role of Angel based on it, shrugs it off. (So JM=Jenny, Boreanze=Shane)With my brother, he dealt with it a little like Shane, distanced himself, shrugged it off, sort of like Boreanze.
Jenny, on the other hand--we are only starting to get into her sex/power issues at this point in the season, but she's got some major issues surrounding it and they inform her reaction to Mark. But I like how she doesn't let him get away with making even the fall-out of his sins "all about him", so that she, the violeted, is invisible again.
Being seen as a sex object has screwed with her head a bit. Which makes sense and I identify with. She's used to retreating, being invisible. Hidden behind words. And her interaction with Mark in a way comments on her past with other men as well - the fact that she has catered so much to their whims. Part of the reason she gets the hair cut is because of Mark - his comment that he sees her as still straight. Getting the hair-cut in a way is similar to her confrontation with him - telling him to stop telling her who she is and making her life into his story. (It's ironic - because Jenny last season was doing somewhat the same thing - making it all about her, or so we perceived.)