The Guild itself, or the video? Presumably gaming as an example of simulacra has been written about somewhere, although The Guild is one step further into Disneyland-style unreality.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 04, 2010 12:42:30 pm PDT #7443 of 10464
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Shir - Sep 04, 2010 7:32:19 pm PDT #7444 of 10464
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Just the video, but there will be a few sentences on The Guild itself (problem is, perfect example, but I'm not sure how much sci-fi/fantasy it is...).
le nubian - Sep 05, 2010 10:07:15 am PDT #7445 of 10464
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Shir,
re: Durkheim...
Don't you think that Durkheim's analyses are best when focused on a community rather than on the individual? This is not a critique, but a musing. So looking at a superhero in context of the society in which that person exists would be relevant here.
Batman and Gotham in "Dark Knight" for example vs. Tony Stark.
Shir - Sep 05, 2010 10:12:45 am PDT #7446 of 10464
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
le nubian, you're right, and your critique makes me phrase myself better. Like Durkheim, I'm trying to focus on a community while using examples of superheroes. And I must say - these heroes change. Buffy's reasons to sacrifice herself in 1x12 aren't the same as in "The Gift" (at least, the way she puts it). I hope to show why, with the greater context of society.
le nubian - Sep 05, 2010 5:17:26 pm PDT #7447 of 10464
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
it was a musing! not a critique. :-)
Typo Boy - Sep 05, 2010 5:37:37 pm PDT #7448 of 10464
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Well since it inspired, you not only were musing. You were a muse. And since you phrased it entertainingly, you were also amusing.
Steph L. - Sep 08, 2010 11:39:58 am PDT #7449 of 10464
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I have a question related to a conversation I'm having elsewhere on the interwebs (Jess, it's rm's LJ).
After Buffy died in The Gift, did you (any of you) mourn? And if so, did you do something specific to mark your mourning? If you mourned, did the fact that she was obviously going to return (show called "Buffy") affect how you mourned?
Laga - Sep 08, 2010 11:41:38 am PDT #7450 of 10464
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
We were watching on DVD so no mourning, just going straight on to the next season.
Vortex - Sep 08, 2010 11:41:56 am PDT #7451 of 10464
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I was so fucking shocked, I didn't really process (I remember being at meara's). I didn't really mourn after that because I knew that she would be back. Had it been any other major character,I would have mourned, because I would have known that they weren't coming back. I was sad when Jenny Calendar died, and when Tara was shot, but I didn't really mourn them.
Shir - Sep 08, 2010 11:55:48 am PDT #7452 of 10464
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I didn't mourn when Buffy died - I didn't watch it in real time, and had to wait until some kind of channel will broadcast it. By the time Star World, which censored Oh So Much from season 6 (including every indication that Willow and Tara were, dear lord, lesbians), started to air season 5, I knew Buffy had another season in front of it. So the impact wasn't as strong.
I did, however, mourn when the last episode of Buffy aired in the U.S., even though it took me a couple of weeks to catch it and watch it myself (I was then in my last year of boarding school, with very limited internet access - no more than two hours per week). I remember my restlessness that day in details, and also that it fell on some class activity (some barbecue - or was it Lag BaOmer?).
When I finally watched it, at a friend's place (a friend I found on the internet, of course, in an Israeli Buffy forum), in order not to sink to despair I almost immediately started watching the unaired pilot of Buffy after watching the finale.