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madimpossibledreamerUnfortunately, you've probably noticed already--no Shadowed Suspicion again this week. Hopefully will get to it soon. At least according to the test I don't have covid, so thank you for your wishes once more.
Warning: not in depth, but I am discussing whedon here.
i already kind of referred to this in a 'dash commentary'. when I watched Buffy with my friends (because I hadn't seen it at the
time; that only happened in college when my nerd friends were horrified I hadn't seen it and insisted I watch it) I enjoyed it. About the same amount that I enjoyed Supernatural (that one I caught up with around season five or six so I could watch it with them live).
I also was grateful that I brought my homework with me every time so when dumb stuff happened (I have a particularly low bar for cringey drama. let's put it this way, there's a reason I don't watch most romance movies because of how they're written and the scene where willow and xander kiss would've had me hiding behind the couch AS A COLLEGE STUDENT the way many kids would hide behind the couch when the Daleks show up) I could just do homework and ignore it. (also I was one of few people that actually read the assignments before class and stuff, but that's something both to do with laziness and the tendency of professors to assume that you're only doing homework for their class, but that's irrelevant).
romance or comedy, I should say. both are good when mixed with other things (princess bride or mystery men, even though they aren't entirely unproblematic either) but when alone they're generally not written in such a way that I actually enjoy them.
so I hadn't had decades of thinking whedon was some kind of feminist savior. there were good things that I thought were better than some of the things I'd seen but that was all. (it probably helped that before I'd even made it to season 3 I was already deep in fanfic and as usual the world created by fandom was better than the original.)
and then they were like "there's this other series he wrote and it's great!" I'd seen and liked Firefly (I'd seen the movie first; it made no sense on its own), but again I didn't like it unconditionally.
except I found Dollhouse horrifying. the concept was fascinating, but every moment on screen made me want to do my homework and try to ignore what was happening on screen. i got a lot of homework done.
Warning: not in depth, but I am discussing whedon here.
i already kind of referred to this in a 'dash commentary'. when I watched Buffy with my friends (because I hadn't seen it at the
time; that only happened in college when my nerd friends were horrified I hadn't seen it and insisted I watch it) I enjoyed it. About the same amount that I enjoyed Supernatural (that one I caught up with around season five or six so I could watch it with them live).
I also was grateful that I brought my homework with me every time so when dumb stuff happened (I have a particularly low bar for cringey drama. let's put it this way, there's a reason I don't watch most romance movies because of how they're written and the scene where willow and xander kiss would've had me hiding behind the couch AS A COLLEGE STUDENT the way many kids would hide behind the couch when the Daleks show up) I could just do homework and ignore it. (also I was one of few people that actually read the assignments before class and stuff, but that's something both to do with laziness and the tendency of professors to assume that you're only doing homework for their class, but that's irrelevant).
romance or comedy, I should say. both are good when mixed with other things (princess bride or mystery men, even though they aren't entirely unproblematic either) but when alone they're generally not written in such a way that I actually enjoy them.
so I hadn't had decades of thinking whedon was some kind of feminist savior. there were good things that I thought were better than some of the things I'd seen but that was all. (it probably helped that before I'd even made it to season 3 I was already deep in fanfic and as usual the world created by fandom was better than the original.)
and then they were like "there's this other series he wrote and it's great!" I'd seen and liked Firefly (I'd seen the movie first; it made no sense on its own), but again I didn't like it unconditionally.
except I found Dollhouse horrifying. the concept was fascinating, but every moment on screen made me want to do my homework and try to ignore what was happening on screen. i got a lot of homework done.
