Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.

Snyder ,'Chosen'


Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.  

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§ ita § - May 20, 2003 8:25:43 pm PDT #1317 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I cried. Of course I did. Girls killed things. Girls got the power to kill things. I'm tearing up right now thinking of the girl that's going to hit that stupid softball right out of the park and she doesn't know why.

I yelled a bit of "No! You can't do that!" when Anya and Wood took their blows. Giles was really Giles.

Oh, I'm still pissed at parts of the season, but not at much of the ep. There's only so much that could be done in 43 minutes, and like "Home", I think it's much more valuable to go forward than patch the past.


Cindy - May 20, 2003 8:26:36 pm PDT #1318 of 10001
Nobody

Hi. I take full responsibility for posting by fdrunken Buffistas in New England. It can't be helped. It's a sickness.

Even me? That rocks, Victor.

West Coasters - get your kleenex out. Really, I mean it, goodnight, all.

(even you, mr. comma, my, new, best, friend)


P.M. Marc - May 20, 2003 8:26:41 pm PDT #1319 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I thought it was krav. Huh.

Well, not in Say Anything, which is of course about where my cultural knowledge stops and freezes in time, in that perfect moment of O-face that Joss thought would make a great plot in Happy Anniversary.


SailAweigh - May 20, 2003 8:26:50 pm PDT #1320 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Is this how the prototypical Hero's Journey always ends, with the sharing of the elixir/power/whatever?

More or less. The "elixir" is usually some form of spiritual/metaphysical enlightenment.


Cindy - May 20, 2003 8:28:27 pm PDT #1321 of 10001
Nobody

Well, not in Say Anything, which is of course about where my cultural knowledge stops and freezes in time, in that perfect moment of O-face that Joss thought would make a great plot in Happy Anniversary.

Oh, as usual, dear. Lloyd will be so disappointed that I missed that reference. I'll have to sex him up. Really gone, now.


P.M. Marc - May 20, 2003 8:29:51 pm PDT #1322 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Oh, as usual, dear. Lloyd will be so disappointed that I missed that reference. I'll have to sex him up. Really gone, now.

Gosh how... hard on you.

I'm so sorry you have to take that one for the team...

No... wait a minute! No bogarting the Dobler!


Wenda - May 20, 2003 8:30:01 pm PDT #1323 of 10001
"I'm a mouse with a piece of string, Bear. The possibilities are endless." - Tutter

Jossian feminism

I guess that's somewhere in the feminist dictionary between cultural feminism and liberal feminism. ;)

Btw, I say nay, but tonight is a night for the yay sayers. Day may be the way for the naysayers, 'kay?


mikal - May 20, 2003 8:32:15 pm PDT #1324 of 10001
What I love most about you core whores: the foreplay .... tina F.

I'm tearing up right now thinking of the girl that's going to hit that stupid softball right out of the park and she doesn't know why

What got me was the image of a woman being throttled, suddenly getting the power and mashing the perp's potatoes.


Frankenbuddha - May 20, 2003 8:32:45 pm PDT #1325 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

But was the storytelling a lie? (sorry for the serial post).

msbelle!!! Glad you are whooping it up (as opposed to shooping it up, like I typed first, although I have no idea if shooping is a good thing, or a bad thing or anything, really) with the MA Buffistas.

Why am I not doing likewise - partly because I feel I just de-lurked too recently, and partly beacuse I didn't know (though I suspected there would be something in the MA/Worcester/Sommerville axis going down) about the Worcester shindig (or is that gathering? Hootnanny? whatever - there are ferrets - it's a par-tay!) until too late. I live in Salem, and even if I had a ride all the way home (and I don't know of any North Shore Buffistas), I have a commute that is ridiculously early. If I'd felt more in the swing of things, and knew enough in advance, I would have arranged something, most likely, as I would love to get to know the Bay State (and other New Englandly-type) Buffistas in a F2F way.

Wow, to much natter for the Buffy thread. Anyway, that's da scoop. Back to the final Buffy.


TomW - May 20, 2003 8:34:44 pm PDT #1326 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

So many drunken MA Buffistas. It's a madhouse, a MAAAADhouse.

Victor's space key is very wonky, that's why everyone seems to be posting drunk.

Oh, yeah, Buffy. Didn't hate it. Unlike the rest of the year.

"Did you find anything out about the scythe?" "Yeah, it's an AXE!" Even Angel, not the sharpest pointy thing in the box of pointy things could tell it was an AXE. AXE. If you're lazy, AX!

P.S. msbelle would like it made clear that she did hate it.