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Apr. 21st, 2007 06:28 pm[I love posting on weekends, no one appears to be reading or if they are, they rarely comment...LOL! You can get away with all sorts of things. Like posting personal pics to your live journal for the first time in your life. We'll see if I do it again. Probably, now that I have to deal with advertisments b/c I'm too cheap to pay the privilege. (Hey those two bucks a month are going towards my Cable).]
The warmth has finally hit NYC. It hit 78 degrees today and is rumored to be near 85 tomorrow.
I'm sitting in a t-shirt and shorts in my apartment which is 76 degrees - whoo-whee! Considering it was 65 degrees this time last week...only draw-back is with the warmth, comes the allergies. Feel stuffed up with scratchy throat and stuffy head - and yes, they are allergies. Because they come and go. This is how I know.
Wrote a TV slut post earlier - but did not post. Thought it was a tad too snide for my taste.
What one thinks is humorous snark in one's head, can come across as snide and rude on lj. (Just read fandomrant or fandomcriticrant? if you want examples). I darted over there, briefly because apparently someone was ranting about the BTVS fandom again. Granted the BTVS fandom, like well all fandoms, and come to think of it people in general, can be somewhat irritating in how they love, like, dislike, and whine about something - but whining, ranting, analyzing, and making fun of them doesn't get you anywhere - well except for a ton of people yelling at you for being a rude mean beastie. And who needs that? (Been there, done that. Ashamed to say. Personally, I think fans are wonky. Myself included. We seem to love nothing better than to needle one another endlessly about what we liked and hated and disagree on regarding whatever we are currently obsessed with. Heck, it's safer than arguing over religion, politics or family - then again, maybe not.)
Re-watched another Buffy S3 episode today. It was Enemies - the episode where Buffy more or less realizes that maybe Angelus and Angel aren't really two distinct personalities after all. Either that, or Angel is just a little too good an actor for his own good? Re-watching it - particularly after watching Lover's Walk and Becoming not to mention all the other episodes of both series, makes certain sequences particularly creepy. For instance these two lines at the very end of the episode take on a whole new meaning:
Buffy to Angel: I think I need a break is all. (From him.)
Angel: Are you still my girl?
Buffy (turns slightly. Pause.): Always.
Creepy gothic music. Fades on Angel looking somewhat mysterious and stalkery.
Yes, they were definitely writing a horror series. What I love about the series and the reason, I find it rewatchable over most other series and why it is the only one I ever got obsessed with - is well, you can watch the same episode and see something else time. Another angle. A different take. One way? Tragic romance. Another way? Creepy horror tale. Another way? A little of both. Fascinating.
How do I know this? Ah, the first time I saw that scene, way back in 1999, I thought, ohhh, so sweet. Sooo romantic. Now, over four years later, I'm thinking, creeepy. Particularly the timing - it comes very close upon the heels of Angel pretending to be Angelus to trap Faith, to the point in which he convinces just about everyone and reminds Buffy just a bit too much of his alter-ego, the guy she fought to a standstill and had almost sent them all to hell, literally. The guy, that it is beginning to dawn on her, is Angel, just Angel without a soul.
But, you can watch that scene and not interpret it that way. It's possible. That's why the series was sooo popular. It could be interpreted in multiple ways. It's also why the fandom is sooo obsessive and wonky. They've all physically seen the same series. But mentally/emotionally they saw different series entirely. It is not like Friday Night Lights or Dexter or Bones - where there is really only one way to watch the thing - people aren't going to fight about it that much. No one disagrees on what *actually* happened. There aren't really that many gaps. Pretty straightforward. Relationships? Equally straightforward. But Buffy? Sigh. The writers liked subtext. They suggested things. They pulled back a lot. Left things unsaid. We didn't know sometimes what happened. They left if up to their audience to imagine it. To fill in the blanks. To interpret the metaphors. Buffy was a show the audience spent a lot of time writing in their heads - it begged to be analyzed, played with, and written about. It wasn't tight. It wasn't linear. It demanded suspension of disbelief and imagination.
Am debating watching another episode tonight, even though have a shitload of other things to watch and work on that are screaming for my attention right now. ;-)
The warmth has finally hit NYC. It hit 78 degrees today and is rumored to be near 85 tomorrow.
I'm sitting in a t-shirt and shorts in my apartment which is 76 degrees - whoo-whee! Considering it was 65 degrees this time last week...only draw-back is with the warmth, comes the allergies. Feel stuffed up with scratchy throat and stuffy head - and yes, they are allergies. Because they come and go. This is how I know.
Wrote a TV slut post earlier - but did not post. Thought it was a tad too snide for my taste.
What one thinks is humorous snark in one's head, can come across as snide and rude on lj. (Just read fandomrant or fandomcriticrant? if you want examples). I darted over there, briefly because apparently someone was ranting about the BTVS fandom again. Granted the BTVS fandom, like well all fandoms, and come to think of it people in general, can be somewhat irritating in how they love, like, dislike, and whine about something - but whining, ranting, analyzing, and making fun of them doesn't get you anywhere - well except for a ton of people yelling at you for being a rude mean beastie. And who needs that? (Been there, done that. Ashamed to say. Personally, I think fans are wonky. Myself included. We seem to love nothing better than to needle one another endlessly about what we liked and hated and disagree on regarding whatever we are currently obsessed with. Heck, it's safer than arguing over religion, politics or family - then again, maybe not.)
Re-watched another Buffy S3 episode today. It was Enemies - the episode where Buffy more or less realizes that maybe Angelus and Angel aren't really two distinct personalities after all. Either that, or Angel is just a little too good an actor for his own good? Re-watching it - particularly after watching Lover's Walk and Becoming not to mention all the other episodes of both series, makes certain sequences particularly creepy. For instance these two lines at the very end of the episode take on a whole new meaning:
Buffy to Angel: I think I need a break is all. (From him.)
Angel: Are you still my girl?
Buffy (turns slightly. Pause.): Always.
Creepy gothic music. Fades on Angel looking somewhat mysterious and stalkery.
Yes, they were definitely writing a horror series. What I love about the series and the reason, I find it rewatchable over most other series and why it is the only one I ever got obsessed with - is well, you can watch the same episode and see something else time. Another angle. A different take. One way? Tragic romance. Another way? Creepy horror tale. Another way? A little of both. Fascinating.
How do I know this? Ah, the first time I saw that scene, way back in 1999, I thought, ohhh, so sweet. Sooo romantic. Now, over four years later, I'm thinking, creeepy. Particularly the timing - it comes very close upon the heels of Angel pretending to be Angelus to trap Faith, to the point in which he convinces just about everyone and reminds Buffy just a bit too much of his alter-ego, the guy she fought to a standstill and had almost sent them all to hell, literally. The guy, that it is beginning to dawn on her, is Angel, just Angel without a soul.
But, you can watch that scene and not interpret it that way. It's possible. That's why the series was sooo popular. It could be interpreted in multiple ways. It's also why the fandom is sooo obsessive and wonky. They've all physically seen the same series. But mentally/emotionally they saw different series entirely. It is not like Friday Night Lights or Dexter or Bones - where there is really only one way to watch the thing - people aren't going to fight about it that much. No one disagrees on what *actually* happened. There aren't really that many gaps. Pretty straightforward. Relationships? Equally straightforward. But Buffy? Sigh. The writers liked subtext. They suggested things. They pulled back a lot. Left things unsaid. We didn't know sometimes what happened. They left if up to their audience to imagine it. To fill in the blanks. To interpret the metaphors. Buffy was a show the audience spent a lot of time writing in their heads - it begged to be analyzed, played with, and written about. It wasn't tight. It wasn't linear. It demanded suspension of disbelief and imagination.
Am debating watching another episode tonight, even though have a shitload of other things to watch and work on that are screaming for my attention right now. ;-)
