William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
"I lived my life in shadow..."
Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dreeeeem? Or are you REALly as WONderful ... as you SEEEEEEEM?
I was watching the opening space fight and found myself thinking "Damn, I wish this was FARSCAPE." I didn't have to wish it was SERENITY because, hey, seeing it next week. Nanny nanny boo boo.
The taunted becomes the taunter.
That's true. I shall now ostracize myself. Don't wait up.
I just watched Star Wars: A New Hope (guess who's been buying DVD boxsets). I'd never seen it before. Spank me.
Apparently Lucas could actually write back then.
The New Yorker reviewer hated Episode III.
I have seen the movie and share his pain.
Why do you hurt yourselves?
I learned a great lesson from BtVS seasons 6 and 7. And Angel, beginning with "you're a champion, Angel. A champion."
When that first shard of badfic writing hits your frontal lobe, run.
Leave yourself with happy memories of a story well told.
I was there when the story began (standing in line for a long time, several times the summer that "Star Wars"* was released), I was determined to be there when it ended. But it was not pretty.
* And its name is "Star Wars" -- not "A New Hope" or whatever that fool renamed it.
What I find slightly confusing and a little unnerving, frankly, is all the people on the Firefly/Serenity boards going "Episode 3 is great!!". Uhm. Did we watch the same movie? Do they not have ears? Have they wanked too much as children?
I'm not seeing Episode 3. And I own over 40 Star Wars books. I stand by Allyson on this.
Except that I like Season 6 of Buffy and Season 5 of Angel. But the idea, that I stand by.
Though now I do kind of want to see Episode 3 just so I can filk "Under Your Spell" with sith lyrics.
Star Wars was badfic from day one. Melodrama is badfic.
The next question: "Is melodrama bad?"
People need stark contrasts, it seems. If you can present stark contrasts while introducing the notion of "gray areas", you might have achieved something.