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Date Posted: 07:35:30 04/22/02 Mon
Author: Rabid, pondering the monster issue...
Subject: We are sympathetic spirits BDM...
In reply to: the badly dressed man 's message, "back at you Rabid" on 06:08:10 04/22/02 Mon

Hmmm...Doctor Who monsters are in my opinion somewhat lame...and so I liked the more human element to the storyline...I love individual episodes for the writing rather than the monsters. I mean everyone says the Daleks...but I agree with...Pertwee (was it) who called them daft salt and pepper shakers...if pressed I would say THE RANI...I thought she needed to work more and I must say that I agree with you about the writing in Davison and McCoy's cases.

Individual episodes though were good...I loved Tom's intro in Robot...TOM alone, the show not as good...And I loved his exit in Logopolis. But loving the more human element my favorite episode with Tom is Face of Evil or Robots of Death or the one in London where he FINALLY gets to play Sherlock Holmes(all Leela episodes...again with the pairing of opposites...primative and ultra civilized). I also enjoyed the Time Lord episodes...but was not a big fan of Romana(one or two). With PD, I loved Caves of Androzani(I just felt it would have worked better with Tegan as it was written for her...and Peri didn't quite carry off the weight of Doctor devotion). Course Peter always hated the Doctor devotion part so...maybe it was better the way it went. I also liked Black Orchid, which a lot of people didn't...I kind of wished it could have been longer.

Probably Robots of Death is my all time fave Dr. Who episode...good characters, better effects than usual and Tom was both alien and charming at the same time. And it was a nice little mystery...all the best of WHO.

As for Buffy's...I agree with you about Giles...the void has been extreme...took me forever to adjust my fanfiction tone to the darker mood and no Giles to play off of...so I imagine it was even harder for Marti. Plus, they used David Fury too much this year...he is a chaotic writer and plays fast and loose with the concepts of plot(though he does write some very festive lines) and character. I think most of the uneven feeling we had was due to D. Fury and more than that...I honestly think that was intentional on JW's part(especially as Fury is writing the FINALE)...I may be investing TOO much faith in Joss here...but I think he knows DF's weaknesses as a writer and is exploiting those to make us "hit bottom" with Buffy.

I mean, she is a superhero as Joan and Giles both assert...so it is a little hard to break her. But this season was all about breaking her. I don't think the B/S thing was done as Fan Wish Fullfillment though...I think the ground work for that was laid several years back but only got examined more closely when Riley/Buffy failed to click.

They wanted to give Buffy a companion after Angel...a true "soulmate" but they went the wrong way...and JW saw that and stopped it. By the time we get to Restless...the B/S dynamic is laid down for the future...and it IS a good story...not the sex part which everyone concentrates on but the emotional part of it. Buffy is essentially unlovable...brutally violent, self-centered, and hiding her softer emotions behind six foot thick walls of sarcasm and artificial sweetner. Xander's little speech about someone seeing the "inner Buffy and loving her" was a hoot because Buffy would scare any normal man half to death. But Spike can love her, does in fact see the "poor lost little girl" with "no one to love." And he is stong enough both physically and emotionally to take her...I think that it is amazing to watch this bitter dynamic play out in larger than life terms the same way it plays out in RealLife.

Right now B/S are just like every romantic couple...they are both clinging to their individual world views...she wants the LIGHT...he wants the DARK...and both are forcing the other one to change a bit. I think that it will end in compromise this time...unlike all of Buffy's previous relationships...I think Spike will find a way to come into the daylight for her...as long as she admits that she enjoys what they do in the darkness. So, basically, BUFFY will become the adult that Giles was...as for Willow, I say don't count her out as Big Bad...they could still do that with her...I think they decided not to rock the narrative boat that much this Season...to wait until Buffy was a tad more stable.

Rabid/Raeann
for the sake of Det's sanity NOT even starting with the Angel analysis...

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