As I commented to embers log above, so much of our emotional reactions to art come from what resonates for us. Which characters we identify with and which we don't. Which issues resonate, which don't.
I'm a single working woman living in NYC far from my family except by phone, and can't imagine having children or anything close to the life Buffy and her friends have. Her world is outside my frame of reference. Spike on the other hand? That character resonates. I get that character.
From what I've read of your journal - it sounds like Buffy resonates more for you. You get her story. It works for you. For many of the reasons that it can't work for me.
This is DEEPLY personal. And how we reacte to things is deeply personal. I think we all criticize things we don't like - it's natural. You certainly have in both your response and your own post - you may try not to, but I think it is close to impossible to avoid. Part of the reason, I do it, is to understand why I didn't like something. To figure it out for myself while I'm explaining it to someone else.
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Date: 2007-10-08 01:04 pm (UTC)I'm a single working woman living in NYC far from my family except by phone, and can't imagine having children or anything close to the life Buffy and her friends have. Her world is outside my frame of reference.
Spike on the other hand? That character resonates. I get that character.
From what I've read of your journal - it sounds like Buffy resonates more for you. You get her story. It works for you. For many of the reasons that it can't work for me.
This is DEEPLY personal. And how we reacte to things is deeply personal.
I think we all criticize things we don't like - it's natural. You certainly have in both your response and your own post - you may try not to, but I think it is close to impossible to avoid. Part of the reason, I do it, is to understand why I didn't like something. To figure it out for myself while I'm explaining it to someone else.