I am utterly enjoying your utter enjoyment of being able to see Buffy for the first time.
I like hearing that. And I love having this sort of ready-made fandom that three quarters of my friends are already into. That being said, I feel starved for more Torchwood talk!
Much more is to come, be assured!
So everyone tells me. As of "Angel", I see the seeds of that, I think.
Angelic torture on his face.
Lovely sentence. Downright Lymondesque!
The fanfic that pairs the two of them
Er hmm. I never thought of that. Why didn't I think of that? I don't know them well enough yet to be into it, but... nice idea.
You will love Joyce later -- she becomes truly heroic as only one's mother can ever be, belive me.
Wonderful!
Angel sometimes struck me as too "normal" for carrying all that agony around in him. I'm not sure it's possible to write a character always on the edge of angst-driven madness, and make that character realistic.
Well - 'realism' is not necessarily a value for vampires, though everyone keeps telling me they're metaphors. Right. So far, I can buy it: everyone wears their own personal agony (or madness) in different ways. Angel has his way. So far I find him utterly realistic in that regard. Often looking as if he has a stomach ache.
So far the fight scenes have been a little clumsy and arbitrary; I'm glad to hear they get better. By "arbitrary" I mean there are instances where Buffy looks to be in peril of imminent danger - the end of the first episode is a good example, and the scene in "The Pack" where Xander appears about to rape her - and in the next scene she's out of the peril and in a different situation. We know she hit Xander with a desk, but the plots logistics and/or implications aren't the point - it seems like cheating to me, that we get to see the imperilment but not the resolution of it.
Put another way: girls in danger are a dime a dozen in any TV show or movie. Buffy is remarkable because she's a superhero and can fight her way out. I don't much like the imbalance of seeing the threat but not the triumph.
Or at least... it bothered me enough to notice it.
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Date: 2008-02-20 02:53 pm (UTC)I like hearing that. And I love having this sort of ready-made fandom that three quarters of my friends are already into. That being said, I feel starved for more Torchwood talk!
Much more is to come, be assured!
So everyone tells me. As of "Angel", I see the seeds of that, I think.
Angelic torture on his face.
Lovely sentence. Downright Lymondesque!
The fanfic that pairs the two of them
Er hmm. I never thought of that. Why didn't I think of that? I don't know them well enough yet to be into it, but... nice idea.
You will love Joyce later -- she becomes truly heroic as only one's mother can ever be, belive me.
Wonderful!
Angel sometimes struck me as too "normal" for carrying all that agony around in him. I'm not sure it's possible to write a character always on the edge of angst-driven madness, and make that character realistic.
Well - 'realism' is not necessarily a value for vampires, though everyone keeps telling me they're metaphors. Right. So far, I can buy it: everyone wears their own personal agony (or madness) in different ways. Angel has his way. So far I find him utterly realistic in that regard. Often looking as if he has a stomach ache.
So far the fight scenes have been a little clumsy and arbitrary; I'm glad to hear they get better. By "arbitrary" I mean there are instances where Buffy looks to be in peril of imminent danger - the end of the first episode is a good example, and the scene in "The Pack" where Xander appears about to rape her - and in the next scene she's out of the peril and in a different situation. We know she hit Xander with a desk, but the plots logistics and/or implications aren't the point - it seems like cheating to me, that we get to see the imperilment but not the resolution of it.
Put another way: girls in danger are a dime a dozen in any TV show or movie. Buffy is remarkable because she's a superhero and can fight her way out. I don't much like the imbalance of seeing the threat but not the triumph.
Or at least... it bothered me enough to notice it.