Here's a list of reasons not to kill Xander, Giles, Spike, Oz, and Riley. And then you compare that to Jenny Calendar, Tara, Joyce, Anya.
And, oh, God, I just had a flash of an S3 in which Angelus offs Oz for Willow's discovery in exactly the same circumstances that he actually did Jenny. And I
know
blah-blah-too-early-for-Dark!Willow-cakes, but oh damn that would have been horrifying and twisted and just wrenching. Taking the terrible loveliness and eroticism and vulnerability of the tableau of Jenny's murdered body (and there's a whole dissertation hiding in that image about the male gaze and whose dead bodies we see and how -- such a world of difference between Jenny in a rose-petal-strewn bed and Wash impaled in his pilot's seat, dying in a moment of competence, confidence and power), and flipping the gender? Fuck. I love Oz to little bitty pieces, but now I long for this.
I'll never forgive the writers for having Mr. Trick—he of the great "It's called an Uzi, ya chump. Could have saved your ass right about now," line—try to kill the Slayer on his own with a crate and a scarf.
Taking the terrible loveliness and eroticism and vulnerability of the tableau of Jenny's murdered body (and there's a whole dissertation hiding in that image about the male gaze and whose dead bodies we see and how -- such a world of difference between Jenny in a rose-petal-strewn bed and Wash impaled in his pilot's seat, dying in a moment of competence, confidence and power)
Hey! Wanna write my Problematic Media essay for me?
Because, yeah, that image is one that's On the List.
(For simplicity's sake, the list STARTS with Laura Palmer for me. Sadly, it never quite ends.)
hey Plei, if you are going to write that essay, you should look up who said that the definition of the Beautiful was the image of a dead woman. (er, roughly something like that)
hey Plei, if you are going to write that essay, you should look up who said that the definition of the Beautiful was the image of a dead woman. (er, roughly something like that)
I am going to write it, but I only have the vaguest familiarity with that.
My memory is very vague, can't bring up the who said it at all, but I'm thinking late Victorian maybe?
It sounds late Victorian.
Google didn't find me much yet, but it DID find me this amazing essay on the notion at hand when applied to Blade Runner: [link]
Wow.
That's... yes. That!
Thank you Bartletts! It's from Edgar Allan Poe: "The death ... of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
Hmm, that link justs gets me to the author's bio.
Hey! I was just about to post that I found that!
Also, that I feel I have lost mass goth points for only having the vague, "Eh? Sounds familiar..." response.
