I SHALL PREVAIL though yes, posting it in your journal certainly doesn't hurt. ♥
I have to post the Buffy & Tara introductory thing first - LJ doesn't let me save drafts like blogger (at least the free version doesn't) and that drives me insane. I almost finished it last night and I have SO MUCH I want to say. And I'm having loads of trouble organizing my thoughts lately - more so than usual. I blame the pain meds.)
Awww, that's cute!
Isn't it? I'd forgotten that until after I watched the show, and I think it was reading boot_the_grime's meta that actually reminded me. (I think we went to my favorite Italian restaurant in Greensboro after that, and I had a very creamy blue cheese dressing with no chunks in it afterwards. Weird, the things I remember.)
Though I wonder if that was the reason you didn't try the series up to now... since the movie is. Not that great. xD
But I'd heard great things about the show since then. It may have just been a timing thing - stuff like this comes to me oftentimes when I'm ready for what it has to say to me, and not a minute before that. Also, we've been without tv (cable) since 1997, as I mentioned in the other reply I just sent you, and didn't have Netflix until just a couple (2-3?) years ago. And mostly for my partner and I to watch stuff together, and she is NOT interested in Buffy, at all. Well fine, that's my little thing. I tried.
but beyond that? I'm not sure. There is so much stuff on netflix and so many movies and tv I haven't seen. I was mostly watching movies for a while, but dropped off since LJ and fandom eat a lot of my time. Even when my head is screaming "But I should watch more Bergman films, and silent films!"
I definitely was puzzled that there was an entire field of academic studies - based on a tv show? I thought that was just weird. (Famous last words.)
Joss is really fond of creepy sexy dreams, isn't he?
I thought the same thing when I watched the series - "what another dream sequence?" although in reality there aren't that many of them, but I was watching the series w/in three weeks so that was sometimes misleading. there are actually quite a few in S2 w/Angel etc and the series starts with a Slayer dream, doesn't it? Sometimes I got tired of the dream sequences, but then other times I was sorry that they dropped that aspect of the show - the Slayer dreams that gave the Slayer knowledge about her predecessors and past battles. It's dropped to the point that Buffy ends up going to Spike for information about her predecessors in FFL - which, brilliant episode, but something a little wonky in that perhaps? Which is not something I'd say aloud elsewhere (hah). I wish there had been some consistency with that, but like everything else, it's picked up and dropped again to suit convenience.
DT is an episode I love btw because the entire thing functions almost as a fever dream - but the dream sequence itself, except the bit in Buffy's bed with Spike, doesn't work for me. You can see it in the outtakes of that sequence - it's extremely awkward and Sarah looks like she's trying too hard. And Restless was the first episode to which I said aloud "Bored, now." Willow, Xander and Gile's individual dreams are all very interesting, but by the time they got to Buffy's I was bored, and her's was the least interesting IMO. I do remember thinking "gee Joss has a foot fetish doesn't he?" (Yes, as it happens) I think I appreciate her dream more when I watch it by itself, but it's still the least interesting of the four. Except weirdly the sequence with Riley and Adam. That's genuinely funny, creepy and haunting. How is it that MB's acting was so meh in so much of the series but he's totally ACES in Restless?
Though sometimes I can't even distinguish the two because when I have a lot of thoughts they might become so muddled it seems like having no thoughts at all.
This is one of those "gotta laugh to keep from crying" things, right? I've written a lot of this stuff down in notebooks and it's still muddled.
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Date: 2013-06-17 01:58 pm (UTC)Hah, thought so. ;)
I SHALL PREVAIL though yes, posting it in your journal certainly doesn't hurt. ♥
I have to post the Buffy & Tara introductory thing first - LJ doesn't let me save drafts like blogger (at least the free version doesn't) and that drives me insane. I almost finished it last night and I have SO MUCH I want to say. And I'm having loads of trouble organizing my thoughts lately - more so than usual. I blame the pain meds.)
Awww, that's cute!
Isn't it? I'd forgotten that until after I watched the show, and I think it was reading
Though I wonder if that was the reason you didn't try the series up to now... since the movie is. Not that great. xD
But I'd heard great things about the show since then. It may have just been a timing thing - stuff like this comes to me oftentimes when I'm ready for what it has to say to me, and not a minute before that. Also, we've been without tv (cable) since 1997, as I mentioned in the other reply I just sent you, and didn't have Netflix until just a couple (2-3?) years ago. And mostly for my partner and I to watch stuff together, and she is NOT interested in Buffy, at all. Well fine, that's my little thing. I tried.
but beyond that? I'm not sure. There is so much stuff on netflix and so many movies and tv I haven't seen. I was mostly watching movies for a while, but dropped off since LJ and fandom eat a lot of my time. Even when my head is screaming "But I should watch more Bergman films, and silent films!"
I definitely was puzzled that there was an entire field of academic studies - based on a tv show? I thought that was just weird. (Famous last words.)
Joss is really fond of creepy sexy dreams, isn't he?
I thought the same thing when I watched the series - "what another dream sequence?" although in reality there aren't that many of them, but I was watching the series w/in three weeks so that was sometimes misleading. there are actually quite a few in S2 w/Angel etc and the series starts with a Slayer dream, doesn't it? Sometimes I got tired of the dream sequences, but then other times I was sorry that they dropped that aspect of the show - the Slayer dreams that gave the Slayer knowledge about her predecessors and past battles. It's dropped to the point that Buffy ends up going to Spike for information about her predecessors in FFL - which, brilliant episode, but something a little wonky in that perhaps? Which is not something I'd say aloud elsewhere (hah). I wish there had been some consistency with that, but like everything else, it's picked up and dropped again to suit convenience.
DT is an episode I love btw because the entire thing functions almost as a fever dream - but the dream sequence itself, except the bit in Buffy's bed with Spike, doesn't work for me. You can see it in the outtakes of that sequence - it's extremely awkward and Sarah looks like she's trying too hard. And Restless was the first episode to which I said aloud "Bored, now." Willow, Xander and Gile's individual dreams are all very interesting, but by the time they got to Buffy's I was bored, and her's was the least interesting IMO. I do remember thinking "gee Joss has a foot fetish doesn't he?" (Yes, as it happens) I think I appreciate her dream more when I watch it by itself, but it's still the least interesting of the four. Except weirdly the sequence with Riley and Adam. That's genuinely funny, creepy and haunting. How is it that MB's acting was so meh in so much of the series but he's totally ACES in Restless?
Though sometimes I can't even distinguish the two because when I have a lot of thoughts they might become so muddled it seems like having no thoughts at all.
This is one of those "gotta laugh to keep from crying" things, right? I've written a lot of this stuff down in notebooks and it's still muddled.