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[solitary_summer]

Good: Despite the lengthy period of slackening I can still run my /-70 mins. A stunningly dark pink/purple sky at sunrise. A leisurely breakfast with the knowledge of a day off followed by a public holiday.

Not so good: Hey! Only two bags of marzipan cappuccino left... Where did they - er, right. Need to re-order.


Finished S2 Buffy yesterday... now Buffy is not my big fanish love, but I have a comfortable, warm, fuzzy fondness for the show and its characters, and it does have some truly striking moments.

Couple of days ago it struck me that it doesn't make much sense that I always tend to feel extra-apologetic (to whom?) when favourite tv shows include spaceships, aliens, vampires and whatnot: Come to think about it, the pseudo-realistic universes of shows like Sex and the City with their four hundred dollar shoes and eternal quest for better sex and/or better relationships have even less in common with my own life (ignoring for the moment what this may or may not say about my life), with my dreams and with what is important to me, and generally speaking I find myself more and more disinterested in shows whose main theme is putting characters in stylish clothing through one bad relationship after another. IMO this kind of realism, if realism it is, is vastly over-rated, and putting an artsy twist on it by making every character oh-so-interestingly angsty neurotic doesn't make that much of a difference IMO. The 'escapism' and suspension of 'realism' (quotation-marks, because what tv show is a hundred percent realistic) at least gives a show the freedom to still be entertaining but at the same time to delve into deeper layers of the human psyche, to tackle archetypal themes of human mythology; to more directly deal with hopes, dreams and fears; to go for the big emotions.

Obviously this perspective is influenced by the lack of relationships and relationship-related drama in my life, but I do think it goes beyond unacknowledged petty jealousy....

::shrug:: Anyway. Will buy S3 and be totally unapologetic about it.

Comments

[fiddlerondaroof.livejournal.com]

Sex and the City, brrr, I cannot stand it. It's a freak that feeds itself out of those not-that-smart (IMO) Shere Hite Reports and some out-dated women's lib ideas. Even Christine de Pisan would mock the premises of the series and the characters.

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I can't see why people believe it's the best thing since the proverbial sliced bread. Then again, I rather hate sliced bread, too... hehe

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

Same here. Well, I am interested in relationships, that's why I am so much of a shipper for different characters in all my favorite shows, but I just don't feel that relationships are being portrayed in any realistic way in any of the shows that are supposedly *about* relationships. Maybe because they center too much on them, giving the impression that there's nothing else going on in the world. People in Buffy have other problems besides who wants to sleep with who, and that makes it closer to my own experiences than any Melrose Place or Sex in the City.

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

Maybe because they center too much on them, giving the impression that there's nothing else going on in the world.

Exactly. And it's not relationships (or love, or emotions generally) I'm opposed to, but what interests me is a *connection* of characters, a mix of characterisation and plot that goes beyond teh pretty physical attraction and what often appears like a mere shuffling of cards by the script writers. Connection, a kind of mutual need, a *reason* why two characters would be drawn to each other: that's the emotional appeal, no matter whether it's friendship or love.