I couldn't fall asleep last night, and I started thinking about all the parallels between Buffy and Supernatural.

They both include the loss of a parent, and a surprise! sibling.

They both include a surrogate parent/mentor figure.

They both have the protagonist befriending and/or working with demons.

They both had a natural endpoint in S5, with a major death.

And they both came back anyway, with a character changed by "death".

Both S6s included a very surprising relationship -- Buffy and Spike, and Dean and Lisa.

Both S6s end with a sort of death/rebirth -- Buffy underground with Dawn (epiphany time!) and emerging from a grave, and Cas losing his angel self and being reborn as a god.

It makes me nervous about S7, because even S7 Buffy has some good moments and a couple of episodes I loved, it was for me such a huge disappointment, I almost never rewatch it.

I was posting/ thinking about similarities the other day. Besides the trip to hell thing, I think the shows just have a similar feel. I'll have to think about exactly why. But I was just thinking today that the shows sort of clicked for me in parallel ways.

Fighting monsters via a combo of research and badassedness, with angst being heaped on the pile season by season. There's a lot of similarity in the basic premises.

ita, I'm reading dizbil.

It's hilarious. I can't --maybe it's heatstroke --I feel kinda bad, cuz maybe it's a second language thing-- god, it's just beyond grammar. I suck at grammar. But between Castiel's cock being inside Dean's (OMG: extreme sounding!) and their asses slapping together (what are they *doing*?! is this physically possible?!!!) and poor Dean being pressurized by his family (I envisioned a hot air balloon with bowlegs), I am beside myself.

Buffy: I can see the similarities when it's laid out as words in print, but I don't feel it. Maybe in some of the lighter eps where they bring out more of the humour? But otherwise, Show has more X-Files vibes in look, tone, and the way it deals with humour. And also that it revolves more insularly around two central characters, and not a sprawling team.

My LJ note for dizbil says "English not a strong point". But I was reading not logged in, so I didn't have the benefit of the asterisk, so I read it by mistake. Oh, dear.

I think you should take your mind off it by looking again at the PG D/C from V-S: Worm. It's adorbs.

I came to the conclusion that it's not the language that's a problem, but the lack of a strong hold on reality.

I saw that. So wrong. "It's a snake!" I think my favorite part is how atrocious the art is, when there's also entries like "A Poor Substitute for God".

I like both her styles of stuff, but I've seen people bitching that she's punking fandom by being two people. They don't know much about artists.

How is she punking them within the same journal?!

There's the serious stuff, and then there's the play. I get that. and the play is fun. There's no rule that says that because you can do something well that you have to do it at that level all the time. And I respect the play stuff more because I know there's a slant of talent not being tapped, but the play has a different kind of talent behind it. Especially the sense of fun and succinct humour and dealing with panels and punchlines.

tiggy, here's a link to the Jared/Zach Q&A: [link]

Here's Jared's Nerd HQ session (HQ even) in one piece.