btvs20in20 Round 16: I Robot, You Jane

[red_satin_doll]

For btvsats20in20 Round 16. Many thanks to my wonderful beta-Muse velvetwhip!

Teasers:    

10 Themes
Center Text	Party	Shadowed Profile	Personification	Plain Background
Bright Yellow	Dream	Flower Texture	Touch of Color	Fiery
5 Category |TELL YOUR STORY ICONING
1.The Beginning	2.Conflict	3.Climax	4.Resolution	5.The End
5 Artist's Choice
AC 1	AC 2	AC 3	AC 4	AC 5

I consider IRYJ to be one of the most underrated episodes of the series.  Sorry, but I do not get the hate. It's got the introduction of Jenny Calender (did I mention I'm a G/J shipper?); and right off the bat foreshadows the idea that she is not what she claims to be; some great dialogue; a Willow-centric episode; Buffy looking out for Willow's welfare (she was only concerned when she realized Willow didn't actually know this "Malcolm") and the first instance in the series of me being truly afraid for Willow and her proving that she's smarter and more resolute than I gave her credit for.

And some of the stuff about computers and the internet turned out to be rather uncomfortably true.

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Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the feedback! :D

I'm tickled that two the icons I disliked the most, or really worried were subpar - Party and Dream - are ones that have been singled out a lot in the comments. Shows that I am not the best judge of my own work! AC1 and Alt 6 OTOH are two of my favorites *points to user pic*. I almost make Alt 6 my b/w+ color but I also wanted to use the shot for my "yellow" icon so I had to choose.

but I wish Giles wasn't so alone

I so agree with this - I ship Giles with Jenny, Joyce, and Olivia. If Joss is so into angst why does he think the best way to do that is to end relationships? Relationships - yes, even healthy, stable, functional ones - are THE SOURCE of angst. I don't read the Jessica Jones comics (I've seen the first five eps of the series and that's it, 'cause they were free), but in the comics she and Luke have gotten married and have a baby, for crying out loud. Whereas nobody ends up in a relationship in the Buffyverse it seems.

I'd feel worse if it weren't Joss' pattern and not just with Giles. Whedon reportedly did not want to include any adults in the series if he could have pulled it off. But the show really needed more adults, or at least really develop the few it had, and it desperately needed strong, mature women to be role models (both positively and negatively) for Buffy, Willow, Tara and Dawn. It had so many possibilities and it threw every one of them away. Mrs Rosenberg and Mrs Harris: seen once and never again. Joyce, Jenny, Maggie Walsh, Mrs Maclay (offscreen): dead. Nikki Wood: dead. Darla: dead. Dru: insane. Olivia: quietly written off. Then add Tara as a mother-figure: dead. Anya: dead.

And yeah, sorry for going off on a tangent like that.