Alas, I don't think she is in the vision. :< But YES the other ones. So many bits of connection. It's nice in its subtlety.
I just rewatched Intervention and you're right. IDK why my memory has this very clear image of Tara being next to the bonfire on the opposite side of Buffy in it - I can see it down to the coat she's wearing - but my brain must have smushed together Tara in Restless and Willow in TWOTW.
I love how genuinely happy Buffy is to see her. ;; Also we get Tara sassing out Spike on Buffy's behalf. G L O R I O U S.
YESSS! SING IT! This gets missed so often in fandom; and Tara's supportiveness of Buffy in DT and saying that Spike "He's done some good and he does love you" gets misinterpreted into the notion that Tara is basically a Spuffy-shipper. And the whole "Tara and Spike have a special bond" trope - is that just fanon (and if so, whatever floats the boat) or do people read that in canon?
BTW - I know I said I don't "ship" Buffy and Tara - but then I was looking at caps of them yesterday in OAFA and Hell's Bells and I suddenly thought that, y'know, I could 'ship them, in a strictly non-canon kind of way. ;) But yes to the subtleties of that friendship, it's so underplayed and so underlooked.
for instance, you can compare any character in BtVS with another character in points of personality or character history and get some meaningful parallels out of it.
Absolutely! And I love those points of comparison and similarity. It's part of the richness of the show, as opposed to most entertainments, where what you see is all there is to see, and there's very little "there, there".
Joyce is underappreciated as Buffy's connection to humanity.
Again that word - underappreciated.
CRIES FOREVER. :(
*passes tissues*
I think Willow's actions particularly toward Tara in All The Way through Tabula Rasa were reprehensible and among the creepiest shit that happened on the show.
Every time I read someone write "All the Way" or ATW (AtW) I confuse it with As You Were. But yes, indeed, and again I'm willing to be compassionate - I can understand why, and it's been building ever since Willow told Cordy that the delete button the keyboard meant "Deliver". I don't think she's the evilst evil that ever eviled - OTOH I said to someone once that I thought the show was depicting W/T as closer to the stereotypical or traditional model of domestic abuse (in which one person is the primary or only abuser, although it's rarely that simple) in contrast to a more IMO "mutually abusive" depiction of Buffy and Spike. And it's complicated - I see my mom and her husbands in W/T, and my (lesbian) partner and myself more in B/S - NOT in terms of any physical hitting or fights but just in terms of arguments and verbal spats. But it's not always that simple, either. I mentioned that to someone one time and I think I offended them (they feel about Willow the way I do about Buffy); and I didn't mean to do so; but just using the word "abuse" (like rape) is triggery.
NGL sdfjlsdfjsld
'splainy please? (I should write a dictionary of online/LJ acronyms sometime. just to jog my own memory.)
The whole scene in Robin's office with the rocket launcher is comedy gold.
I've seen that scenario a thousand times in the movies and tv shows but this was the only time it ever made me laugh out loud.
But yeah, mostly embarassment squick & just squick.
Fair enough! I sometimes question if I'm not letting that ep get away with too much, or what my laughter says about me that I might not like knowing. (No laughing at the cheerleading tryouts, though.)
IT SUCKS but there are a lot of people out there who I think could benefit from having the squick factor of the situation pointed out. >> Sigh. So spelling it out may have been. IDEK, not good here, but you get what I mean?
If you mean me, I apologize; I only meant to describe my reaction, not proscribe yours. Sometimes I shouldn't use words.
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I just rewatched Intervention and you're right. IDK why my memory has this very clear image of Tara being next to the bonfire on the opposite side of Buffy in it - I can see it down to the coat she's wearing - but my brain must have smushed together Tara in Restless and Willow in TWOTW.
I love how genuinely happy Buffy is to see her. ;; Also we get Tara sassing out Spike on Buffy's behalf. G L O R I O U S.
YESSS! SING IT! This gets missed so often in fandom; and Tara's supportiveness of Buffy in DT and saying that Spike "He's done some good and he does love you" gets misinterpreted into the notion that Tara is basically a Spuffy-shipper. And the whole "Tara and Spike have a special bond" trope - is that just fanon (and if so, whatever floats the boat) or do people read that in canon?
BTW - I know I said I don't "ship" Buffy and Tara - but then I was looking at caps of them yesterday in OAFA and Hell's Bells and I suddenly thought that, y'know, I could 'ship them, in a strictly non-canon kind of way. ;) But yes to the subtleties of that friendship, it's so underplayed and so underlooked.
for instance, you can compare any character in BtVS with another character in points of personality or character history and get some meaningful parallels out of it.
Absolutely! And I love those points of comparison and similarity. It's part of the richness of the show, as opposed to most entertainments, where what you see is all there is to see, and there's very little "there, there".
Joyce is underappreciated as Buffy's connection to humanity.
Again that word - underappreciated.
CRIES FOREVER. :(
*passes tissues*
I think Willow's actions particularly toward Tara in All The Way through Tabula Rasa were reprehensible and among the creepiest shit that happened on the show.
Every time I read someone write "All the Way" or ATW (AtW) I confuse it with As You Were. But yes, indeed, and again I'm willing to be compassionate - I can understand why, and it's been building ever since Willow told Cordy that the delete button the keyboard meant "Deliver". I don't think she's the evilst evil that ever eviled - OTOH I said to someone once that I thought the show was depicting W/T as closer to the stereotypical or traditional model of domestic abuse (in which one person is the primary or only abuser, although it's rarely that simple) in contrast to a more IMO "mutually abusive" depiction of Buffy and Spike. And it's complicated - I see my mom and her husbands in W/T, and my (lesbian) partner and myself more in B/S - NOT in terms of any physical hitting or fights but just in terms of arguments and verbal spats. But it's not always that simple, either. I mentioned that to someone one time and I think I offended them (they feel about Willow the way I do about Buffy); and I didn't mean to do so; but just using the word "abuse" (like rape) is triggery.
NGL sdfjlsdfjsld
'splainy please? (I should write a dictionary of online/LJ acronyms sometime. just to jog my own memory.)
The whole scene in Robin's office with the rocket launcher is comedy gold.
I've seen that scenario a thousand times in the movies and tv shows but this was the only time it ever made me laugh out loud.
But yeah, mostly embarassment squick & just squick.
Fair enough! I sometimes question if I'm not letting that ep get away with too much, or what my laughter says about me that I might not like knowing. (No laughing at the cheerleading tryouts, though.)
IT SUCKS but there are a lot of people out there who I think could benefit from having the squick factor of the situation pointed out. >> Sigh. So spelling it out may have been. IDEK, not good here, but you get what I mean?
If you mean me, I apologize; I only meant to describe my reaction, not proscribe yours. Sometimes I shouldn't use words.