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Questions Post #5
It's that time again...TOOL TI--. . .yeah. That.
From my sister-in-law to you:
Lj
How often do you change your bio?
How do you use tags? No, this one's not you personally. I really don't get how to use them or what they're for.
How do you get to your journal—is it in your favorites? Is the link there your “recent entries” page, your user page, or your “my lj” page, or what?
Why do you have yourself friended?
Do you ever have trouble finding the button to click to add someone’s post to your memories?
How often do you check your flist to see if someone’s added you?
Do you feel it’s impolite to have long conversations with someone on someone else’s journal?
Do you get annoyed when someone makes a comment just to correct a grammatical error, or makes a comment that’s only one word, or seems pointless to you?
How do you spell the gerund form of rec and beta?
General fandom
What did they use to put the tattoo on David Boreanaz’s back? Do you think they worried about getting it in the same place every time? And who gets the job of applying it, anyway?
Did David Boreanaz ever have a back double?
How tall is Nicholas Brendon? Okay now, how tall is he for real?
Am I the only slathering B/A fangirl who doesn’t think much of the episode IWRY?
Are there any fics out there about Anne (formerly Lily, formerly Chantarelle)?
Did anyone besides me really love Kate Lockley?
What DVD commentary do you like the best?
What’s J. Augest Richards doing these days? Alexis Denisof?
Joss Whedon
Why do some people hate Joss Whedon?
Whatever happened to the Ripper spin off?
Is there even the remote possibility of a Faith spin-off?
Is there even the remote possibility of the cartoon?
Did Serenity make enough money, or not?
I want someone explain comic books to me. I was really into X-men comics in preteen years, but one of the reasons I kind of dropped it was because I got confused (also, I got too tall to be comfortable sexing up with Wolverine and realized I would never have boobs like Rogue's. When you're 11, you still want boobs like Rogue's, even though you figure out by 12 NO ONE has boobs like Rogue's. Or even wants boobs like Rogue's, because ugh, back pain). There seemed to be so many different series all going on at once; I couldn't keep them straight. I didn't get the difference between Uncanny, Astonishing, and Amazing. Isn't there like . . . a diagram for these things?
From my sister-in-law to you:
Lj
How often do you change your bio?
How do you use tags? No, this one's not you personally. I really don't get how to use them or what they're for.
How do you get to your journal—is it in your favorites? Is the link there your “recent entries” page, your user page, or your “my lj” page, or what?
Why do you have yourself friended?
Do you ever have trouble finding the button to click to add someone’s post to your memories?
How often do you check your flist to see if someone’s added you?
Do you feel it’s impolite to have long conversations with someone on someone else’s journal?
Do you get annoyed when someone makes a comment just to correct a grammatical error, or makes a comment that’s only one word, or seems pointless to you?
How do you spell the gerund form of rec and beta?
General fandom
What did they use to put the tattoo on David Boreanaz’s back? Do you think they worried about getting it in the same place every time? And who gets the job of applying it, anyway?
Did David Boreanaz ever have a back double?
How tall is Nicholas Brendon? Okay now, how tall is he for real?
Am I the only slathering B/A fangirl who doesn’t think much of the episode IWRY?
Are there any fics out there about Anne (formerly Lily, formerly Chantarelle)?
Did anyone besides me really love Kate Lockley?
What DVD commentary do you like the best?
What’s J. Augest Richards doing these days? Alexis Denisof?
Joss Whedon
Why do some people hate Joss Whedon?
Whatever happened to the Ripper spin off?
Is there even the remote possibility of a Faith spin-off?
Is there even the remote possibility of the cartoon?
Did Serenity make enough money, or not?
I want someone explain comic books to me. I was really into X-men comics in preteen years, but one of the reasons I kind of dropped it was because I got confused (also, I got too tall to be comfortable sexing up with Wolverine and realized I would never have boobs like Rogue's. When you're 11, you still want boobs like Rogue's, even though you figure out by 12 NO ONE has boobs like Rogue's. Or even wants boobs like Rogue's, because ugh, back pain). There seemed to be so many different series all going on at once; I couldn't keep them straight. I didn't get the difference between Uncanny, Astonishing, and Amazing. Isn't there like . . . a diagram for these things?
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I'll tell you: nefarious scheming and slathering rhapsodies. *nods*
Half the time I can't find the damn comment button however.
Right there with you.
You've been smoking crack again, haven't you.
Did I ever stop?
And I don't know who gets to put it on, but why wasn't it me?
They thought you might not be able to reach. They should've chosen me.
Why didn't you like it?
I liked it. I loved the part where she touched his hand and he pulled on her sweater and the way he knows she's going to put her legs around him before she does it and the way DB's hands look on her body and guess how many times I've watched that scene. I also love DB's acting when he's human, especially when he laughs after she licks him. Plus you can see freckles on his shoulders which is the most adorable thing ever. Plus I'm writing a story where that day gets repeated 100s of times so I must not dislike it too much.
I also like how Jossverse so often asks "what if"--the Wish, IWRY, Birthday, Spin the Bottle, Tabula Rasa--all take us to alternate realities and it's like fanfic. But out of all of these, I feel like IWRY is the most flimsy. What I hate is the mechanism for plunging into this AU--the mohra demon is lame (look lame, what it does is lame, way to defeat it is lame; it's just lame).
When I first saw "The Wish", I felt the same way about Anya--she was just a device to get us into another world. But the fact that the universe then explained vengeance demons, embraced them, showed us who they are and why they are and what they can do--made "The Wish" not just some funky joy ride but a story that seems to have meaning in the scheme of Whedon's universe.
IWRY, though, is conveniently swept under the rug. It's like ME's dirty secret--a way to cater to B/A fans and give them what they want without making any significant changes to anyone or anything. This day should've had reverbs. The mohra demons should've played a part later on. Instead it feels like a wart on the plane of AtS, something they had to do to make someone happy. I read recently--I think it was in the article you posted--that Whedon regrets doing IWRY so soon in AtS, and I agree 100%. It could've been such a big part of the overall arc of the series if it had happened later on. Instead it feels like left-overs from BtVS.
So, I don't like the plot or the device of the Mohra demon. I also don't like DB's acting in the sewers, when he and Buffy are discussing how they still can't be together. It makes me grit my teeth and want to scream. He doesn't sound like he loves her to me; he just sounds annoyed. Which is a same, because he was phenomenal in the sewer scene in "Prom." I don't like the Oracles. They're dumb. And--oh god, I'm not really a B/A fan--I don't like the "not enough time scene." It's SMG's acting. I love how that's the one scene where Buffy really breaks down in the entire 7 years. That's the one time she sobs. And objectively, I can see that SMG did a good job with it. Something about it just rubs me the wrong way.
I don't like Angel saying, "Oh, I gotta go fight this guy myself." It doesn't ring true for me. I understand his decision in the end--he wants to earn his redemption, not have it fall in his lap. He sincerely believes his purpose is to help people, and it's Buffy who taught him that, and isn't it ironic and sad that he has to give up Buffy to do it. But the way these truths finally become clear to him seem lame to me. Angel does have a habit of wanting to rush into the fray and take care of things himself, but the whole Mohra demon thing was so lame anyway, this felt really contrived.
Like I said, I love the romantic scenes. They have so much chemistry together and it's such a pleasure to see them happy. But I guess my big beef with the ep was what it could've been, against what it was. As far as plot goes it was as dismal as Beer Bad, imo.
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And I love the fact that when he comes to the fridge, he was, in fact, nekkid. Dave, you method actor, you!
I'm going to have to rewatch the sewer scene to remember my impressions of his acting there.
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The sewer scene: there's this part near the end of it where she's climbing the ladder into the sunlight ("where he can't follow") and he reaches out to her. And he draws his hand away, and you don't know whether the sun stung him or he drew back because he knew he shouldn't touch her. And it's kinda the same thing for him anyway--sun and Buffy: untouchable. And the way DB plays that moment just kills me. The look on his face, the movement of his hand, everything.
But earlier, when he says the lines:
"No. It is confusing. When we're apart it's easier. It hurts every day. But I live with it. And now you're right here and I can actually reach out... It's more then confusing, it's unbearable."
I didn't believe a word of that. And the lines of dialogue that follows, where they're supposed to be finishing each other's sentences--it's badly written (too cheesy) and badly acted, imo.
Come to think of it, I may have gotten burned out on this ep after having watched it so many times to do AOLIT. That makes me sad.