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rmWe 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.)
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Date: 2010-02-06 04:06 am (UTC)Hahaha. Nobody should be sartorially dicksizing (or otherwise) with you.
Meanwhile, I can't stop nodding along to your Buffy thoughts. I'm new(-ish; started last year but haven't had time to get past S4 yet) to the show as well, and everyone else I know has been watching for years, so it's interesting to see your take as someone else who isn't finished. A lot of the things you've picked up on have been ringing true for me.
Giles has undoubtedly become my favorite. That shouldn't surprise me, because he's the sort of character (at least superficially, in the "snarky librarian/butler/sidekick" sense) I always love, but somehow I wasn't expecting to love him to the extent that I do. I haven't quite been able to pinpoint why that is yet. I mean, I identify with him a bit, but I identify with most of them a bit, and I identify with Willow more - and I adore Willow, but in the end she's still probably second to Giles. The loneliness is an interesting point, though, and I think that's part of it, as well as his relationship with Buffy.
One of the things I really love int he show is the friendships between teachers and students.
THIS. Because, yeah, that's an odd dynamic, and one that doesn't always come across in the best light, but I've had those friendships (and I graduated from high school two years ago, BTW, so this was quite recently), and they can be pretty incredible.