Entertainment without MuJi: Day One.

[innerbrat]

Please state the nature of the Entertainment Emergency
Canon Squee Post is Go
Name of canon in subject lines: skip over the ones you don't want to be spoiled for.

Alternatively: I just posted a pup into the bar for the first time in I don't know how long. Talk to me about long absences you've had, and why, and how you overcame them. Or what your pups have been up to since the last time they talked to one of mine.

Comments

Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[innerbrat]

I used to be annoyed at Crap Buffy Ressurections.

Now I'm annoyed at Crap Buffy Deaths. Is it just that Joss has never had a happy relatio...

Oh wait.

What is it, then?

Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[genarti]

Lordy I do not knoooooow.

Seriously, I would suspect that, if it didn't seem solidly otherwise. As it is -- I don't even know. Creative rut he has a giant blind spot about?

Mostly now I am just like, JOSS. STOP REPEATING YOURSELF OVER AND OVER AGAIN WITHOUT A DARN GOOD REASON TO DO SO.

Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[shati.livejournal.com]

Is it relationships, though? I mean, it's relationships if we're talking how nobody's romance goes unbroken, but if we're talking predictable deaths -- Wash is the only male half of a couple to die for permanent, that I can think of, and that was because of Alan Tudyk volunteering, yeah? Whereas the list of dead girlfriends in the cumulative Jossverse is long, and includes some major characters whose deaths became all about their SOs' grief. Honestly I am inclined to call classic-ish Refrigerator Syndrome. It seeps in?

I haven't read the comic yet though ...

Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[innerbrat]

We haven't seen the scoobies' reactions (or, actually, if it is a death or just a severe Willow-healable wound) so there's no way to know yet if it's a Fridge or not.

Except if it is a fridge, it's not Xander's fridge she's been shoved into, but Buffy's, which galls even more.

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[shati.livejournal.com]

Refrigerator Syndrome in the way that a lot of the time it is like "how can I make Sadness and Stuff Happen?" "KILL SOMEBODY!" where it is not really weighted much in the story? The ones that most worked for me the way he intended were Wash and Joyce, anyway, which I guess were mostly Oh Look Death Is Unexpected! and not much about making Character X do grief a lot. Well you could argue about Joyce, but The Body never looked like a plot device to me.