Yay for discussion! We have established quite definitively that we do not share a brain, but it's probably better that way :)
Oh, critical analysis to the point where one forgets what one loves the show, yes, i definitely agree that that's a bad thing.
I'm a big fan of Spuffy, but i can see the discussion being head-spinning and thus leading to not-caring and am not going to force you to engage in a thorough discussion with me since you're content to just leave me to my opinions.
I'm not sure if i ever particularly identify with Buffy, but a friend of mine was a senior in college that year and really identified and her talk has ever since colored how i look at S6. I think even without her, though, i would have appreciated the idea of Life/Adulthood As Enemy and other such themes (though i loathed her decision to work at DMP; asking for a monetary settlement sufficient to last until Dawn was out of college would have been the sensible thing to do -- though i suppose one could argue that she was having self-loathing issues and an actual job was the highest she could bring herself to aspire to, and of course there's the meta that they needed her to have a day job that ground her down to complement eveything else grinding her down).
Yes, please do call me Elizabeth. (Unless you come up with some witty nickname, of course :) ) I tend to call everyone by their "real" names unless told not to (or unless i don't know their non-LJ names). I understand people wanting to keep online/fannish identities separate from their other identities, but i'm not into making an active effort in that direction for a variety of reasons. And i'm rather attached to my given name, though i enjoy how my parents refer to me as Hermione when they comment on my LJ so that people know to whom they're referring.
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Date: 2005-02-03 06:14 am (UTC)Oh, critical analysis to the point where one forgets what one loves the show, yes, i definitely agree that that's a bad thing.
I'm a big fan of Spuffy, but i can see the discussion being head-spinning and thus leading to not-caring and am not going to force you to engage in a thorough discussion with me since you're content to just leave me to my opinions.
I'm not sure if i ever particularly identify with Buffy, but a friend of mine was a senior in college that year and really identified and her talk has ever since colored how i look at S6. I think even without her, though, i would have appreciated the idea of Life/Adulthood As Enemy and other such themes (though i loathed her decision to work at DMP; asking for a monetary settlement sufficient to last until Dawn was out of college would have been the sensible thing to do -- though i suppose one could argue that she was having self-loathing issues and an actual job was the highest she could bring herself to aspire to, and of course there's the meta that they needed her to have a day job that ground her down to complement eveything else grinding her down).
Yes, please do call me Elizabeth. (Unless you come up with some witty nickname, of course :) ) I tend to call everyone by their "real" names unless told not to (or unless i don't know their non-LJ names). I understand people wanting to keep online/fannish identities separate from their other identities, but i'm not into making an active effort in that direction for a variety of reasons. And i'm rather attached to my given name, though i enjoy how my parents refer to me as Hermione when they comment on my LJ so that people know to whom they're referring.