I can get why one would dislike Him, but the level of hate they get I don't know.
They were all lessons for me and very early signs that I was NOT a part of "mainstream fandom" - which sent me landing here in LJ and this part of fandom. Even still, those are not loved episodes.
I remember at another LJ site with a feminist, Spuffy late-seasons slant, people HATED him or specifically they hated the part where Buffy mounted RJ while bespelled because of the consent issues etc. And I felt like a bad feminist or something and really embarrassed because I thought that sequence was funny, so I should have "known" it wasn't. then I went back to rewatch and - nope, I still find it funny. The dubious consent was the point - there was no question that RJ had put a spell on Buffy; and Buffy behaving somewhat like Buffybot is always funny. Or "This is a classroom you chowderhead!" "His physical presence has a penis!" I'm smiling just thinking about it. it's my go-to episode for laughs And at the same time it references so many other episodes and turns their personal issues upside down as well as digs up buried dynamics - the AR, the Xander/Spike relationship, Willow's magic issues and her and Anya's rivalry. Buffy's devious behavior contributing to Dawn's later distrust. Xander being an adult now instead of the picked-on geek. Buffy's relationships referenced by Dawn's use of "it is real" and "it would be true, forever".
Beer Bad - Cave Buffy! Who foreshadows the First Slayer and Buffy in Bargaining2 (watch the scene in the bar in BB when the bar is burning down, and Buffy wandering the streets after she's been resurrected). Parker knocked on the head twice, and Willow likewise giving Parker a verbal smackdown! All to the good. And Doublemeat Palace is an incisive portrait of the dead-end service work that has been the single largest growing sector of the economy (in terms of number of jobs created) in the US since the 1990's. I've worked in retail (rather than fast food) but so much of it is the same.
I need to do an "underrated episodes" post. Maybe a few of them.
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Date: 2013-04-17 08:52 pm (UTC)They were all lessons for me and very early signs that I was NOT a part of "mainstream fandom" - which sent me landing here in LJ and this part of fandom. Even still, those are not loved episodes.
I remember at another LJ site with a feminist, Spuffy late-seasons slant, people HATED him or specifically they hated the part where Buffy mounted RJ while bespelled because of the consent issues etc. And I felt like a bad feminist or something and really embarrassed because I thought that sequence was funny, so I should have "known" it wasn't. then I went back to rewatch and - nope, I still find it funny. The dubious consent was the point - there was no question that RJ had put a spell on Buffy; and Buffy behaving somewhat like Buffybot is always funny. Or "This is a classroom you chowderhead!" "His physical presence has a penis!" I'm smiling just thinking about it. it's my go-to episode for laughs And at the same time it references so many other episodes and turns their personal issues upside down as well as digs up buried dynamics - the AR, the Xander/Spike relationship, Willow's magic issues and her and Anya's rivalry. Buffy's devious behavior contributing to Dawn's later distrust. Xander being an adult now instead of the picked-on geek. Buffy's relationships referenced by Dawn's use of "it is real" and "it would be true, forever".
Beer Bad - Cave Buffy! Who foreshadows the First Slayer and Buffy in Bargaining2 (watch the scene in the bar in BB when the bar is burning down, and Buffy wandering the streets after she's been resurrected). Parker knocked on the head twice, and Willow likewise giving Parker a verbal smackdown! All to the good. And Doublemeat Palace is an incisive portrait of the dead-end service work that has been the single largest growing sector of the economy (in terms of number of jobs created) in the US since the 1990's. I've worked in retail (rather than fast food) but so much of it is the same.
I need to do an "underrated episodes" post. Maybe a few of them.