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.)
YES GO I'm eagerly awaiting it. :) Sorry that you have to be on pain meds, though. :( What's the matter, if I may ask?
Even when my head is screaming "But I should watch more Bergman films, and silent films!"
Wow! I haven't even touched the classics in my film-watching, let alone silent films. Definitely something also worth considering.
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.
You know, that is an incredibly good point. How cool would it have been if Buffy just gradually found out more about herself through meeting other Slayers in dreams over the series? Really, that's one thing I really, really regret -- that Buffy really has little interaction with other Slayers, past or present. The way it is now, her relationship with most other Slayers seems to end up antagonistic, when she thinks about them at all. And just. Ugh. IT COULD'VE BEEN GREAT let me lean on your shoulder and sob about it.
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.
It's super akward and kind of painful to watch, isn't it? Though for me, that is also because of the content of the dream. Holy shit. I love those outtakes where Katrina's actress is just laughing while SMG is sitting on her, though.
And Restless was the first episode to which I said aloud "Bored, now."
... AHAHAHA I thought I was the only one who isn't super fond of Restless. I mean, it's a great episode, but I guess my brain isn't analytic in a way that gels with dream stuff, at all. I'm conflicted about Buffy's dream sequence, because I do like the iconic quote from it (gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back etc.), but then there's all that super sketchy race stuff there too. :/
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.
IDK if I'd compare those two things, but... yes. Forever muddled. :( My brain is invariably chaotic and I can't seem to de-chaos it, ever.
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YES GO I'm eagerly awaiting it. :) Sorry that you have to be on pain meds, though. :( What's the matter, if I may ask?
Even when my head is screaming "But I should watch more Bergman films, and silent films!"
Wow! I haven't even touched the classics in my film-watching, let alone silent films. Definitely something also worth considering.
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.
You know, that is an incredibly good point. How cool would it have been if Buffy just gradually found out more about herself through meeting other Slayers in dreams over the series? Really, that's one thing I really, really regret -- that Buffy really has little interaction with other Slayers, past or present. The way it is now, her relationship with most other Slayers seems to end up antagonistic, when she thinks about them at all. And just. Ugh. IT COULD'VE BEEN GREAT let me lean on your shoulder and sob about it.
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.
It's super akward and kind of painful to watch, isn't it? Though for me, that is also because of the content of the dream. Holy shit. I love those outtakes where Katrina's actress is just laughing while SMG is sitting on her, though.
And Restless was the first episode to which I said aloud "Bored, now."
... AHAHAHA I thought I was the only one who isn't super fond of Restless. I mean, it's a great episode, but I guess my brain isn't analytic in a way that gels with dream stuff, at all. I'm conflicted about Buffy's dream sequence, because I do like the iconic quote from it (gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back etc.), but then there's all that super sketchy race stuff there too. :/
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.
IDK if I'd compare those two things, but... yes. Forever muddled. :( My brain is invariably chaotic and I can't seem to de-chaos it, ever.