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Tonight Patty and I are having a stay-in date involving fondue and lots of Buffy.

We watched another episode last night.

So... is it just me or are lot of Buffy episodes semi-covertly concerned with rape? Jenny gets possessed by a demon against her will and then doesn't want her boyfriend touching her? And we've already mentioned the frat boy episode....

Meanwhile, Ethan... welcome to my department of mixed feelings. On one hand, I've totally known dudes like that (without the supernatural evil factor) and I love that he carries himself like someone who has done a lot of ballroom dance. On the other hand, I'm a bit put off by the level of cliche inherent in the "this is a queer character, but we won't say that explicitly" thing he has going on. On the other hand, again, I've known a lot of dudes who presented like that.

Okay, while I don't identify with Giles at all, I sort of am developing this deep, deep empathy for him. His life is not at all what he ever thought it would be, even as it's exactly what he's always know it would have to be. That's lonely, and Buffy is rally the only person who could understand that, but she's still a kid not matter what she's seen and done and he is ALONE.

Despite this deep empathy, I don't really get Giles. Is the meek librarian thing all an act or is he damaged by all sorts of stuff we don't really have a handle on yet? Weird guy.

I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT NOW I UNDERSTAND THE TORCHWOOD POODLE JOKE.

Magical tattoo as a plot device that's actually cool looking! Yay show. (Snake? Skull? Really, JKR?)

Willow telling people to get out of her library? Awesomecakes.

One of the things I really love int he show is the friendships between teachers and students. They are, perhaps, unrealistic, especially over here in 2010, but I certainly had teachers I ate lunch with and whose classrooms I hung out in and maybe they were doing their jobs and maybe we were really friends and maybe that was inappropriate, but I meant the world to me as a teenager and I recall these friendship as genuine and deep (and it's one of the reasons I get so so so angry when people make noise about Lupin's friendship with Harry in the third film being inappropriate and reading as a sexually inappropriate situation. Those sorts of friendships, which were not sexual, saved me life.)

Boa Sr has died. "She was the last member of one of ten distinct Great Andamanese tribes, the Bo." There are only 52 members of the Great Andamanese tribes remaining.

The men of Gallifrey One should not be sartorially dicksizing with me. They will lose.

Speaking of, apparently Patty & I are joining a friend and a friend of hers at the Plaza champagne bar soon so I have an excuse to wear the tux.

Oh crap, which reminds me. Gotta make (early) V-day restaurants reservations.

Comments

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

Re: your ex, YIKES. He might not have been an abusive person himself, but that could still say a lot about who he is in a not-so-good way.

With Joss, I also wonder if the rape/possession themes are his way of reinterpreting a lot of old traditional monster stories. A lot of traditional monster stories/folktales, from which he seems to derive many of his demon characters, have demon/monster characters who have a habit of possessing people or violating them other bodily or mentally. Given that (according to Whedon) Buffy as a character is supposed to be the contrast to the male hero - a shero, if you will - I wonder if he also sees the fact that she's conquering a lot of those rape/possession-type demons as a message about victims and women fighting back rather than submitting and suffering. Or perhaps Whedon also saw a lot of rape-kink-sci-fi comics and is making fun of those, because his brand of sci-fi in Buffy seems to err on the side of campy-ness. They're both strong possibilities. I honestly haven't read enough of his interviews to know, though.