'Out Of Gas'
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,
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.
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.
it was a musing! not a critique. :-)
Well since it inspired, you not only were musing. You were a muse. And since you phrased it entertainingly, you were also amusing.
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?
We were watching on DVD so no mourning, just going straight on to the next season.
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.
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.
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.
Steph,
when Buffy died in "The Gift" my feelings were complicated by Dawn (who I really really didn't like) and that I was pretty sure Buffy would be back. My main area of concern at the time (as I recall) and early in the next season was whether Buffy would come back wrong.