Waking up to six inches of snow yesterday gave me a rather sickening bit of nostalgia for last autumn which, for several reasons, we didn't get to enjoy as much as we would have liked. So here's yet another post of me stickin' it to you Winter, wishing you'd just go away.
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Excellent use of my favorite language.
So I'm watching Buffy from start to finish (loving the Salt Lake County Library system right now). I just started season 5, and am remembering how much better I liked High School Buffy, and how annoying Dawn is. Thoughts?
Yay for libraries.
Funny you should bring this up as I am knee deep in a Whedon-themed crossword puzzle...
While I really liked High School Buffy, I can't help but feel the metaphor deeply. I was ready for the move from HS. It was time. Let's move on, kind of thing (can we really separate reality from the Buffyverse?).
Many people were terribly bummed after graduation. Personally, that was the portal to the Big Time. While some of the individual stories may not have been as tight as S3, the show started some serious season (and series) length narrative arcs. We already knew and loved the characters, so it was time to "let them go" as it were and see how they grew up. Season 5 is superb, while six is really rough and uncomfortable - which, I think, is its strength. As we all come to realize, life can really stink - and then your best friend turns into the supreme baddie! Dawn IS really annoying (I wanted several times to punch her). However, when you have Whedon writing bad guys that you like as much (or more - Spike & Dru, The Mayor!) as your heroes, then it's kind of nice to have someone making things complicated and difficult - especially when they are supposed to be a Scoobie.
Looking back, the obvious alternative take on the series is that it's really Willow's rather Oedipal progression into becoming independent from a very strong friend/partner who had become more of a mother. However, I am now making an argument that it's really Wesley's story (with S1&2 being exposition) that carries on in the Angel series. And opposed to Willow's, Wesley's story is a tragedy in the most Greekly heinous sense. Everything bad that happened to Buffy, happened to Wes ten-fold with rusty wire, broken glass, and no apologies.
...Sorry, did you want to talk about Buffy, or were you just making chit-chat?
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