Eh, having people devote their lives to a vendetta based on someone who was killed before they were born doesn't strike me as the most positive of depictions. But then Jenny Calendar called out how insane the lengths they were going to actually were, so there was an onscreen counterpoint.
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 19, 2012 12:22:43 pm PST #8427 of 10459
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Liese S. - Jan 19, 2012 12:22:59 pm PST #8428 of 10459
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Definitely better than Native Americans!
billytea - Jan 19, 2012 12:26:57 pm PST #8429 of 10459
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Definitely better than Native Americans!
I wonder how they'll react when Xander's penis gets diseases from a Chumash tribe.
DebetEsse - Jan 19, 2012 12:44:00 pm PST #8430 of 10459
Woe to the fucking wicked.
At least the show explicitly "teaches the controversy" on the Chumash...yeah, that's probably not enough...
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2012 1:34:36 pm PST #8431 of 10459
brillig
I wonder how they'll react to Willow's denunciation of Thanksgiving.
Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2012 1:49:17 pm PST #8432 of 10459
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is it just because they're young?
Possibly, but you can't say that because it's ageist.
It's all "You mentioned the Romani! You must now make an explicit effort to undo generations of bigotry or you're part of the problem!"
There was a very interesting comment from an actual Romani who was basically like, "It didn't bother me because they always get it wrong, and we don't tell anyone our secret ways, so whatevs."
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2012 2:02:29 pm PST #8433 of 10459
brillig
Possibly, but you can't say that because it's ageist.
Get offa my lawn.
edit: Harumph. t cane shake
Jon B. - Jan 19, 2012 2:09:32 pm PST #8434 of 10459
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
from an actual Romani
That links back here, P-C.
§ ita § - Jan 19, 2012 2:14:21 pm PST #8435 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
SECRET WAYS, JON. SECRET WAYS.
Polter-Cow - Jan 19, 2012 2:15:55 pm PST #8436 of 10459
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That links back here, P-C.
Blah. Fixed.