it feels like he's treating Buffy partially as a forum for psychoanalyzing his high school years.
If you look at Mark Reads Harry Potter, he kind of does the same thing there.
Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.
'Harm's Way'
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.
chrismg - Feb 10, 2012 5:18:14 pm PST #8614 of 10459
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Polter-Cow - Feb 10, 2012 5:23:29 pm PST #8615 of 10459
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't see anything unusual about using stories about characters going to school to psychoanalyze your own experience going to school. I mean...that's what make stories so important and wonderful, that they can reflect your experience in a way that makes you understand them better.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 10, 2012 5:35:01 pm PST #8616 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
I don't think it's required by any means. I fully enjoyed and appreciated the early years of Buffy despite my high school experience not being hellish at all.
Polter-Cow - Feb 10, 2012 5:36:31 pm PST #8617 of 10459
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Absolutely. I don't think any TV show has really mirrored my high school experience, not even Freaks and Geeks. It's probably why I'm so drawn to high school movies and TV shows; it's what I imagine my experience was supposed to be like.
DavidS - Feb 10, 2012 5:42:06 pm PST #8618 of 10459
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Absolutely. I don't think any TV show has really mirrored my high school experience,
Well, Dazed and Confused nailed my high school years pretty well. (I would be in the car with Anthony Rapp, Adam Goldberg and Marisa Ribisi [aka, Mrs. Beck]).
Cass - Feb 10, 2012 5:52:50 pm PST #8619 of 10459
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I don't see anything unusual about using stories about characters going to school to psychoanalyze your own experience going to school.
There's nothing unusual about it. Lots of people blog exactly for this reason. And I get that Mark is your friend so it feels like I am being somehow unkind in not wanting to read him do it. But it's not meant to be a slight.
§ ita § - Feb 10, 2012 5:55:40 pm PST #8620 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's nothing unusual about it.
I do balk at the amount he's able to find (and be surprised to find) every single time. That was one hell of a time you must have had to generate the frenzy,
Polter-Cow - Feb 10, 2012 5:57:03 pm PST #8621 of 10459
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And I get that Mark is your friend so it feels like I am being somehow unkind in not wanting to read him do it. But it's not meant to be a slight.
Yeah, sorry, obviously I'm a little defensive. No worries.
Vortex - Feb 10, 2012 8:07:38 pm PST #8622 of 10459
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
A blog entry from one of my favorite blogs that talks about law in the context of comics, scifi, etc. (the multiverse)
Buffyverse Vampires and Criminal Liability
(although I will quibble slightly with his interpretation that vampires are possessed with the soul of a demon. As Angel said, the demon doesn't take the soul, it's gone. It doesn't change the analysis)
DCJensen - Feb 10, 2012 8:34:08 pm PST #8623 of 10459
All is well that ends in pizza.