The denoument was VERY satisfying, imho - there were things I'd sort of suspected, but other things I totally didn't see coming. Loved it. Really looking forward to Season 3...which I'll probably be mainlining about twelve months from now.
Quite apart from the acting (which is consistently good) and the writing (which ditto), I really do love the
look
of the show. Which I rambled on about at some length, I know, but - it's so PRETTY! So many many scenes are shot like some sort of Hopper painting, only more so - silhouettes and shadows and walls of coloured light and fascinating textures and patterns...just beautiful. Consciously so. Good job, set-and-light guys!
It would have worked better for me in marathon. This should be the only way I watch shows.
This pretty much
is
the only way I watch shows, for the past couple of years. May change when I'm in Bangkok, but I'm not holding my breath...
Hi Fay!
I discussed my issues with VM at the end of the season in that thread. Mostly I adore the characters and the snappy dialogue. But really it's further along the bleak curve than I like. Both seasons upset me. There is so much good that I will come back for S3, but I hope like hell that the underlying issues don't involve
rape
or
child abuse.
That just isn't so much entertaining for me.
Hi Fay! I'm glad you're enjoying VM and SPN. I posted a couple of fic links in the fanfic thread for the latter.
One of the reasons I like VM is that it gives people so much to discuss. I lent my S1 dvds to a coworker just so I could have someone at work to burble on about the show with.
I am balancing my checkbook for the last month. This is not fun. Some might even call it depressing.
BUT, I am avoiding packing, so there's that!
Oh, shit. That was worse than I thought. I should have packed boxes.
Intresting. Hmm.
Did you think that these themes were used gratuitously, Laura? Or was it simply that you'd rather not have them crop up?
Reading through some of the sites associated with Girl Wonder, I was perusing
Girls Read Comics and they're Pissed
(and mentally adding 'Off' at the end, rather than visualising lots of drunken comic-appreciation), and I need some help pinpointing this bit of BtVS canon:
Buffy Summers - how I loathe what was done to this character - ended up forcing oral sex on a male character over his repeated verbal objections. To a musical sting. The writers, I am fairly certain, did not actually realise they had written a rape, particularly as this same character later attempted to rape Buffy, which was not treated as at all amusing.
To which episode is she referring?
I would assume Doublemeat.
I think she's referring to Gone.
I also don't agree with her interpretation of the text there. (Or her interpretation of BoP 68, for that matter, but variety is the spice of life and blogging.)
