tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post112271477937719363..comments2023-09-28T21:40:05.328+10:00Comments on Dr Clam's accidental blog: "You haven't alienated all your friends. You just haven't posted about Buffy enough."Marco Parigihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-1122946630398592542005-08-02T11:37:00.000+10:002005-08-02T11:37:00.000+10:00Yes, Harry Potter is as much a moral relativist as...Yes, Harry Potter is as much a moral relativist as I am! And he's got the same birthday as me.<BR/>:-)Marco Parigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-1122939982265370962005-08-02T09:46:00.000+10:002005-08-02T09:46:00.000+10:00I don't think this is at all an invalid reading of...I don't think this is at all an invalid reading of the text, but the oddly upbeat finale does raise an interesting question: for the first time in 7 years (not counting her brief flirtation with lucidity in the episode where the Truth is Revealed) Buffy is happy - or at least satisfied - her issues are resolved and her angsty "only I can save the world" mission is no longer hers alone.<BR/><BR/>Does this utterly out-of-context end to the foundations of her fantasy existence point to a full recovery from her coma? I'd like to think soDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05203948349102824828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-1122893787079324192005-08-01T20:56:00.000+10:002005-08-01T20:56:00.000+10:00Elementary, my dear Jenny! By a supreme effort of ...Elementary, my dear Jenny! By a supreme effort of will, much like I mentally edited Jar-Jar Binks out of Episode I, I have erased Angel from my personal Buffiverse. Gosh, that guy bugs me. <BR/>Hmmm. Actually, you don't really need to invoke Angel's spin-off series, because the same argument would apply to any scene where Buffy is not on-camera. No, Buffy's creation is more robust than that- the backstory needed for a degree of internal consistency is provided by her subconscious, so that when she finds out about something, all the events necessary to bring it about are called into retroactive existence, like in the New Age Goofball version of Quantum Mechanics. Actually showing the events on screen in roughly chronological order is just a device to make things easier for us viewers. :DDr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701411.post-1122863676415900972005-08-01T12:34:00.000+10:002005-08-01T12:34:00.000+10:00In the multilayered realities of the buffyverse, h...In the multilayered realities of the buffyverse, how do you explain the spinoffs such as Angel, in which Buffy does not appear but the characters she has created does? Surely the egocentric nature of her delusions would mean that no such thing would exist without her presence.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12909466417710679436noreply@blogger.com