I apologize, right at the top, for how I've misspoken. Rather, how I've forgotten myself in time. I never was able to look at the slash aspect of Buffy, either, and was also very put off by the fact that they were high school kids who were written to act and talk like high school kids... only after the college seasons did I start to look at the show in that way, and it is from that vantage point that I wrote that bit about their slashy dialogue. At the time I first saw it, I also did not think that way about it, and in fact it made me uneasy to see how they were linking Buffy and willow up in so many subtle ways -- forming a close-friend relationship, of course, but also it could be seen as setting up slash possibilities. This show gets even more subtext (to borrow a Xena-fandom word) as the seasons go on.
(And I just erased my own little paragraph... similar!)
Again, waht I said about the scenes with Larry came from that detached-from-time perspective. yeah, Xander was homophobic; it turned me off big time. But Larry was a good character, you have to admit. And, yes, this episode was one of the first on mainstream American TV to address such an issue without making it into a big deal.
I was writing that from the union office after a long, sensory-muddled day, with a lot on my mind... didn't say things very well, did I? Sorry!
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Date: 2008-05-05 03:45 am (UTC)(And I just erased my own little paragraph... similar!)
Again, waht I said about the scenes with Larry came from that detached-from-time perspective. yeah, Xander was homophobic; it turned me off big time. But Larry was a good character, you have to admit. And, yes, this episode was one of the first on mainstream American TV to address such an issue without making it into a big deal.
I was writing that from the union office after a long, sensory-muddled day, with a lot on my mind... didn't say things very well, did I? Sorry!