Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
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.
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,
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.
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)
The add on was released on Christmas? Fitting. Thanks, DCJ.
Since they’re dead, they can’t be human. That’s not very satisfying or interesting, though, so I’m going to ignore it.
That was fun. Kinda makes me miss Lindsey. (extra " on your link)
I don't understand why I feel defensive of Mark. I don't know the guy at all, and I sometimes find myself getting irritated by his writing style. But still I don't like it when others criticize him. For the very same things I just rolled my eyes at moments before! Weird.
Mark is surprisingly not squeeful about "The Wish," instead calling the early shift away from Cordelia (in an ostensibly Cordelia-centric episode) and the fact that no one remembers the Wishverse critical flaws.
In terms of these characters, though? It stinks. I hate it. No one learns anything. No one remembers anything. Nothing happened. No one grew, no one became a better person, and the only person who could have possibly gleamed a message from all of this is the audience. I think I would have preferred a barely tolerable explanation that kept the ramifications of that parallel world in someone's mind. I suppose that since Cordelia died in her wish, it was inevitable that all of this wouldn’t matter. But I'm just not a fan of stories that don't matter. Why tell them if they just disappear and if they have no lasting effects?
He liked it, but not as much as pretty much everyone else does.
I'm curious what he'll think once he gets to Dopplegangland. And the eventual ongoing presence of Anya.