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Okay, my brain hurts...is it time to go home yet? ;-)
LJ brainless question of the day:
What is your favorite cult film, and why?
At the moment? Buckaroo Bonzai - Adventures Across the 8th Dimension.
Although Tremors comes in close second. Not sure Blade Runner counts as a cult film - if it does, then definitely that - since I actually own it on DVD.
I don't feel like explaining why. Figure it out for yourselves.
Speaking of taste issues? The whole Buffy S5-7 vs. Buffy 1-3 debate arises again.
Easy - if you are obsessed with high school stories and tween romance - you probably loved 1-3, if you are obsessed with stories about 20something angst, depression, abusive relationships, post and current college angst,
job frustration, and are either a frustrated psychology major or philosophy major at heart? You probably loved 5-7 and think S4 is the ultimate season. Although 3's stand-alone and Mayor/Faith arc had its appeal.
Hopeless romantic into Twilight novels? 1-3 only. (1-2 - I doubt they stuck around much after that.)Or casual fan into watching something not too deep. (there are exceptions of course, aren't there always?)
Cynics into Supernatural, BSG,Doctor Who, and tv shows like Game of Thrones and True Blood? 4-7 OR scholarly fan wanting to analyze the thing to death.
(also exceptions...ETA: some of these people love Doctor Who for example, which is far from cnynical.)
Then of course there are the weird people like myself who liked everything but the last 10 issues of the comics. We don't fit in any category and just look in bewilderment at the rest of you. ;-)
[ETA: Also should include people who liked all the tv series seasons but hated all the comics even though they masochistically read them anyway. And then there's the people who ignored the comics completely and loved all the seasons ...ETAA: Alright, I'm bound to have forgotten someone - so create your own little special category.]
And finally the folks who well liked all the seasons including all the comics...
Okay, not finally, there's also the people who think the show was about a cheerleader slaying vampires directed towards tween girls and just don't get the appeal. (Uh, no, that was the movie. But I can understand the confusion.)
In short try figuring out why people like what they like at your own risk.
Personally, I think it's impossible, without pissing everyone off and being proven to be an ass.
back to figuring out this change order request...then home again home again jiggedty jig.
Okay, my brain hurts...is it time to go home yet? ;-)
LJ brainless question of the day:
What is your favorite cult film, and why?
At the moment? Buckaroo Bonzai - Adventures Across the 8th Dimension.
Although Tremors comes in close second. Not sure Blade Runner counts as a cult film - if it does, then definitely that - since I actually own it on DVD.
I don't feel like explaining why. Figure it out for yourselves.
Speaking of taste issues? The whole Buffy S5-7 vs. Buffy 1-3 debate arises again.
Easy - if you are obsessed with high school stories and tween romance - you probably loved 1-3, if you are obsessed with stories about 20something angst, depression, abusive relationships, post and current college angst,
job frustration, and are either a frustrated psychology major or philosophy major at heart? You probably loved 5-7 and think S4 is the ultimate season. Although 3's stand-alone and Mayor/Faith arc had its appeal.
Hopeless romantic into Twilight novels? 1-3 only. (1-2 - I doubt they stuck around much after that.)Or casual fan into watching something not too deep. (there are exceptions of course, aren't there always?)
Cynics into Supernatural, BSG,
(also exceptions...ETA: some of these people love Doctor Who for example, which is far from cnynical.)
Then of course there are the weird people like myself who liked everything but the last 10 issues of the comics. We don't fit in any category and just look in bewilderment at the rest of you. ;-)
[ETA: Also should include people who liked all the tv series seasons but hated all the comics even though they masochistically read them anyway. And then there's the people who ignored the comics completely and loved all the seasons ...ETAA: Alright, I'm bound to have forgotten someone - so create your own little special category.]
And finally the folks who well liked all the seasons including all the comics...
Okay, not finally, there's also the people who think the show was about a cheerleader slaying vampires directed towards tween girls and just don't get the appeal. (Uh, no, that was the movie. But I can understand the confusion.)
In short try figuring out why people like what they like at your own risk.
Personally, I think it's impossible, without pissing everyone off and being proven to be an ass.
back to figuring out this change order request...then home again home again jiggedty jig.
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Date: 2011-05-27 10:24 pm (UTC)Had the same experience with both S6 and S7. S6 - you have to appreciate just for breaking the boundaries of its own genre and television in general. They literally drew outside the lines that season. And I agree, you have to give them credit for trying something new and having goal - even if they bit off far more than they could chew. Really painful to rewatch though. At the time I called it "six characters on the verge of a nervous breakdown or in the midst of a nervous breakdown." Talk about literally throwing all your characters off the cliff.
Someone needed to remind him 'keep it simple, stupid.' Too much piling on with potentials and impossible to kill then easy to kill ubies and the screen got too cluttered to actually tell a coherent story about the characters that brought us to the story (see the same in Season 8... only on crack).
Yes. Exactly. It's very hard to do this well. I think Whedon's biggest problem is he got a bit too ambitious and tried biting off more than he could chew, without taking the time to sit down and carefully plot out each character arc. Not just Buffy's.
The fact that he hadn't a clue what he was going to do with Spike or even Xander for that matter - should have been a wake-up call that he needed to scale back a bit. He's too fly by the seat of my pants or make it up as I go along - to be able to handle an epic story with a cast of thousands, multiple story-threads, and complex themes. The writers who do stories like that effectively are far more detail oriented than Whedon and take the time to actually chart out their characters journey's - examples are George RR Martin and the writers of Friday Night Lights. (While it is tempting to say Lost or BSG, they didn't quite pull it off either - just better than Whedon did.)