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...).
You were very nearly devoured by a giant demon snake. The words 'let that be a lesson' are a tad redundant at this juncture.
Giles ,'Selfless'
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.
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".
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.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 08, 2010 12:06:26 pm PDT #7453 of 10464
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
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
Yes- I bought a lot of Buffy related books and scripts and stuff to have during the summer hiatus. I knew she was coming back, but I knew that it wouldn't be the same. Also the way that she approached her death was so fucking heartbreaking. Like, with relief. And tired sadness.