get your kumba-yayas out.
Mar. 14th, 2011 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaydeefalls
Keeping up with the news these days feels a bit like watching a Roland Emmerich film, except that Japan isn't being destroyed by his special effects department. It's kind of frightening.
So as per usual, I hide from current events via fandom.
I really don't know how to handle how much I adore "Once More With Feeling", oh my goodness. I watched it twice over the weekend. Some parts more than twice. And spent some time seriously considering stopping there entirely, because it's so utterly perfect in every way that I almost don't want to see the remaining season and a half of the show to ruin the potential it leaves in its wake. Just. Wow.
...of course, I'm still watching. I don't hate S6 yet the way I'm supposed to, although there's still time, I'm sure. Willow's arc is deeply bothersome to me on many levels, including the part where it's handled with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and she seems to go from okay to OUT OF CONTROL DRUGGIE out of nowhere. The Buffy/Spike downward spiral of mutually abusive behavior, on the other hand, is intensely fascinating and holy shit, I cannot believe how much the censors let them get away with. That fight/sex scene at the end of "Smashed", with the house falling apart around them, is harsh and explicit and disturbing and vital and gorgeous. Tonally, it felt like some of the best/darkest moments of Battlestar Galactica, and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Also, hot as hell. Normally, I'm not at all drawn to dark/creepy/violent sexual relationships (and I never have even the slightest interest in dubcon or consensual violence in fic -- it squicks me deeply) but the way Buffy and Spike's characters are drawn, the emotional states they're in at this point -- god, it just works. This ship is going to gut me, I can tell.
Somewhere between S5 and S6, I've become very impressed with James Marsters as an actor. Previously, I thought he was charismatic as hell and great fun to watch, but the guy's got real depth. At the beginning of S6, the subtlety and nuances to his reaction to seeing Buffy alive just...oh, it takes my breath away. He was wasted on Torchwood, that's for damn sure -- or, at least, he wasn't given enough of an arc to build a real character from. John Hart is a cardboard cutout compared to Spike's gradual evolution as a person. Gah.
And I have zero interest in Xander and Anya whatsoever. Or in the miracle vampire pregnancy over on Angel, UGH. My least two favorite tropes: weddingfic and kidfic. And Joss is currently playing with both. BAH.
So as per usual, I hide from current events via fandom.
I really don't know how to handle how much I adore "Once More With Feeling", oh my goodness. I watched it twice over the weekend. Some parts more than twice. And spent some time seriously considering stopping there entirely, because it's so utterly perfect in every way that I almost don't want to see the remaining season and a half of the show to ruin the potential it leaves in its wake. Just. Wow.
...of course, I'm still watching. I don't hate S6 yet the way I'm supposed to, although there's still time, I'm sure. Willow's arc is deeply bothersome to me on many levels, including the part where it's handled with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and she seems to go from okay to OUT OF CONTROL DRUGGIE out of nowhere. The Buffy/Spike downward spiral of mutually abusive behavior, on the other hand, is intensely fascinating and holy shit, I cannot believe how much the censors let them get away with. That fight/sex scene at the end of "Smashed", with the house falling apart around them, is harsh and explicit and disturbing and vital and gorgeous. Tonally, it felt like some of the best/darkest moments of Battlestar Galactica, and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Also, hot as hell. Normally, I'm not at all drawn to dark/creepy/violent sexual relationships (and I never have even the slightest interest in dubcon or consensual violence in fic -- it squicks me deeply) but the way Buffy and Spike's characters are drawn, the emotional states they're in at this point -- god, it just works. This ship is going to gut me, I can tell.
Somewhere between S5 and S6, I've become very impressed with James Marsters as an actor. Previously, I thought he was charismatic as hell and great fun to watch, but the guy's got real depth. At the beginning of S6, the subtlety and nuances to his reaction to seeing Buffy alive just...oh, it takes my breath away. He was wasted on Torchwood, that's for damn sure -- or, at least, he wasn't given enough of an arc to build a real character from. John Hart is a cardboard cutout compared to Spike's gradual evolution as a person. Gah.
And I have zero interest in Xander and Anya whatsoever. Or in the miracle vampire pregnancy over on Angel, UGH. My least two favorite tropes: weddingfic and kidfic. And Joss is currently playing with both. BAH.
