My general issue with Whedon is that he depends a bit too heavily on "It will all end in tears." It's not just a matter of Buffy's romances. All of them do. And, after a while, as unrealistic as it is to think of couples living happily ever after, it becomes equally tiresome that if a couple finds romantic love death is on their heels (sometimes immediately after). This sort of reached its xenith for me with Fred/Wesley whose union was immediately followed by her death. It was too the point when they suddenly got together (which I didn't think was adequately explained) it was being snarked "uh-oh, someone must be about to die." Similarly, Tara and Willow's reunion is followed by death. Giles tries a romantic relationship with Jenny Calendar, and she dies. Anya died on the heels of having sex with Xander. Cordelia died once she became a romantic love interest of Angel's. Even Firefly's only real couple, one of the duo die in Serenity. And in Dollhouse (though I didn't watch in general) I caught the ending and saw that Eliza Dushku's romantic couterpart died and... I laughed. I didn't watch the show, so I cannot comment on the romance itself, but my immediate reaction was to think "How very Joss" when I saw ED's character talk about being emotionally unavailable, her lover die, and her 'happy ending' being daydreaming alone in a cot. Heck, didn't the girl die in "Dr. Horrible" Too?
Just as a change of pace, for the sake of variety or suspence, it would be nice if we didn't know going in that it would almost certainly end in catastrophe (and I'm not just talking Buffy and her vampires).
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Date: 2010-02-21 04:28 am (UTC)Just as a change of pace, for the sake of variety or suspence, it would be nice if we didn't know going in that it would almost certainly end in catastrophe (and I'm not just talking Buffy and her vampires).