the situation is so complicated and fucked up on any normal scale of things that it's almost impossible to talk it through, except in a roundabout mostly non-verbal way Oh I'm right there with you! (Stopwatch conversation ftw!) And oh, that Wesley/Angel exchange...
It's never out of character as such, but for my taste you feel the writer's hand too strongly sometimes. Ah, but I see it almost the opposite way - well at least when it comes to Spike/Buffy. To quote my friend Anna (this [LONG] post):
I love the way one story, in particular, seemed to break out of whatever theme it was supposed to be getting across, and gave us television as riveting and as gut-wrenching as television dares to be, and acting – and, especially, interacting – that was occasionally sublime.
Yes in the end the writers tried to wrestle the narrative back into the shape they'd aimed for (and not entirely successfully it could be argued), but I adore the fact that Spike and Buffy became their own story, not fitting into any moulds or ordinary relationship structure. It's the same reason I love Jack/Ianto. :)
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Date: 2010-05-12 10:17 pm (UTC)Oh I'm right there with you! (Stopwatch conversation ftw!) And oh, that Wesley/Angel exchange...
It's never out of character as such, but for my taste you feel the writer's hand too strongly sometimes.
Ah, but I see it almost the opposite way - well at least when it comes to Spike/Buffy. To quote my friend Anna (this [LONG] post):
I love the way one story, in particular, seemed to break out of whatever theme it was supposed to be getting across, and gave us television as riveting and as gut-wrenching as television dares to be, and acting – and, especially, interacting – that was occasionally sublime.
Yes in the end the writers tried to wrestle the narrative back into the shape they'd aimed for (and not entirely successfully it could be argued), but I adore the fact that Spike and Buffy became their own story, not fitting into any moulds or ordinary relationship structure. It's the same reason I love Jack/Ianto. :)