When did you vanish? What, for three days? OH HONEY, you have no idea.

Three days isn't vanishing in my book. If you skip out for three years, then apologize. :D

(But it IS awesome.)

Well some things are too good to be kept secret! And it's not a major plot-point or anything like that.

But I wrote an essay for Chicks Unravel Time about Ace. <3 <3 <3

I think you mentioned that to me but I'd forgotten! Ace, oh yes! After we'd watched all the other "old who" doctors in college, Ace and Seven felt like a revelation to us.

One of the biggest differences with Seven & Ace to Buffy and Giles is that Seven held ALL the cards in terms of power, knowledge etc (but it's been twenty years since I've watched); it's closer to a "normal" parent-child relationship in that respect. Buffy has more "power" to the group than a child normally does - or rather, she's the child in the dysfunctional family who is expected to take care of the adults rather than the other way around, the one on whom all expectations are riding. (See also: Satine and Zidler.) And there's really not a template for that in our culture. It's how a lot of parent-child relationships actually function but not how the culture tells us they are supposed to.

(Watch The Eleventh Hour and you will see. *g*)

My must-watch list is getting longer by the day *Scribbles*