lol I like your twist: that your readers at lj may be as blind as those watching/reading a romance.... "knowledge is structured in consciousness" that is to say, we only see what we are ready to see (or worse, what we want to see).
Yes. One of the things I've been noticing in Whedon's stories, most recently Dollhouse - is an exploration of the horrific consequences of maintaining delusions or what we want to believe. Last night's episode of Dollhouse, for example - had a woman who returned after her death to visit her family and determine who murdered her - in the episode she's forced to come to grips with the fact that she did not know her family as well as she thought, nor were their views of her what she expected. Her reality and theirs was not the same. Buffy, similarily, is forced to realize that Angel is a monster - much as Pete had become with Debbie. Without meaning to - she brings out the monster in him. Her love for him is in the end destructive. But she doesn't want to see that, she can't see that - because it is too painful.
Of course why should the stories we watch or read be any different than real life? Too often our RL romances are mostly delusion aided by a lot of wishful thinking.... (I should keep my thoughts on that to myself, huh?)
Yeah...I probably should too.;-)
But I've been thinking about this a lot lately. And It's not just romances, it's friendships, relationships with siblings and parents and family members...
I was watching Dollhouse last night - and there's this bit where Topher creates the perfect playmate for his birthday. Just once a year. To be less lonely. But I wonder if it doesn't just make him more lonely? The playmate isn't real. There's nothing more painful that the discovery that something you invested a great deal of emotional energy into is not real. And may never have been. It's like having a layer of your skin ripped off.
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I like your twist: that your readers at lj may be as blind as those watching/reading a romance....
"knowledge is structured in consciousness" that is to say, we only see what we are ready to see (or worse, what we want to see).
Yes. One of the things I've been noticing in Whedon's stories, most recently Dollhouse - is an exploration of the horrific consequences of maintaining delusions or what we want to believe. Last night's episode of Dollhouse, for example - had a woman who returned after her death to visit her family and determine who murdered her - in the episode she's forced to come to grips with the fact that she did not know her family as well as she thought, nor were their views of her what she expected. Her reality and theirs was not the same. Buffy, similarily, is forced to realize that Angel is a monster - much as Pete had become with Debbie. Without meaning to - she brings out the monster in him. Her love for him is in the end destructive. But she doesn't want to see that, she can't see that - because it is too painful.
Of course why should the stories we watch or read be any different than real life? Too often our RL romances are mostly delusion aided by a lot of wishful thinking....
(I should keep my thoughts on that to myself, huh?)
Yeah...I probably should too.;-)
But I've been thinking about this a lot lately. And It's not just romances, it's friendships, relationships with siblings and parents and family members...
I was watching Dollhouse last night - and there's this bit where Topher creates the perfect playmate for his birthday.
Just once a year. To be less lonely. But I wonder if it doesn't just make him more lonely? The playmate isn't real.
There's nothing more painful that the discovery that something you invested a great deal of emotional energy into is not real.
And may never have been. It's like having a layer of your skin ripped off.