Willow ,'Showtime'
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.
We must think of the children. The pubescent girl-children who will need a disturbing, thinly-veiled sexual metaphor to fixate on.
They can read Dracula and The Vampire Lestat like the rest of us did, dammit. Kids today and their "vampires", WHATEVER.
I watched it, also while cooking, yesterday morning.
Haven't watched Pangs yet - but I'm going to be sending some Buffy to my sister-in-law who teaches film at Columbia College in Chicago. (She needs to see Buffy - she loves teen drama and I think she'd get into Buffy.)
IO9 article on how we need more like Buffy, not simply more Buffy.
I had no idea it would happen, but this makes me tear right up, and this isn't helping the allergies at all.
I may have to download Becoming now.
Those two images can still give me chills.
The Body is on Logo now. I can't watch it.
The Body is on Logo now. I can't watch it.
That is one episode I have definitely seen less than the rest. It's so painfully realistic.
I have been a bit down lately. Feeling particularly worthless; worn out; etc. And so I was just so ... I don't know what exactly but inspired, I guess, when Buffy answers Angel with "me". I have seen Becoming several dozen times but it really is my favorite two hours of TV ever.
I think about that moment (with the sword and "me") often when I'm down. It's a go to image. I don't really know what to call the feeling it evokes - it's complex, and it changes - but it's big.
