5 Iconic Traits of Fictional Characters that Are Bullshit

Personally, I found the one about ST:TNG's Worf to be the funniest.  It's the graphic of "Things That Can Beat Worf in a Fight" and includes kittens and tribbles. :)

Still, I do wish that whoever the heck actually claims to be in charge this week of the comics had some tiny bit of a clue about the cognitive dissonance of this one on their list:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer revolves around a high school student who discovers she's actually a superhero destined to protect the earth against demons,

She's a reluctant hero who openly resents her abilities because they have stripped her of the chance of ever living a normal life, and because teenagers hate responsibility. In fact, she almost turns her back on her duties at the end of Season 1 and tries to run away at the end of Season 2 to escape the pressure of killing evil shit all the time.

Even by the final season, she's still complaining about how miserable it is. She tries to give an inspiring speech to a new group of vampire hunters, and instead it comes out as "I hate this. I hate being here. I hate that you have to be here. I hate that there's evil, and that I was chosen to fight it. I wish, a whole lot of the time, that I hadn't been." The point being, her powers are a curse, forcing her to save the world when all she wants is to be a regular girl

[ME:  Which was why the "woohoo! Sharing the power/empowerment!" mixed metaphor in "Chosen" was a hat trick they didn't QUITE pull off if you thought about it for a minute or so (especially if one includes the trainwreck of "Season 8"]

What's a "normal life" in the Buffy universe? How does she even have a concept of what normal is? Keep in mind, it's not like the demons only reveal themselves to her because she's a slayer, and everyone else gets to spend Saturday at the mall. The demons are real for everyone -- Sunnydale is a war zone. The only difference is that everyone else is helpless and she isn't.

Over seven seasons, we see enough bodies pile up in that town to know that the idea of normalcy doesn't exist for anyone. The show is set in a horrifying universe where every day, "normal" people have to worry about their organs being harvested, getting eviscerated by She-Mantises or being eaten by bullies possessed by demonic hyenas. Well over 10 students and faculty die every season at Sunnydale High School, and 100 percent of those deaths are murder by some supernatural creature. Being "normal" means being a vulnerable hunk of meat just burning time before getting eaten by a demon.

Buffy hasn't sacrificed her life for her powers; her powers are the only thing ensuring that she has a life. She is one of the few people capable of even stepping foot outside her house at night without having to worry about something crawling out of hell and planting eggs in her chest.

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5 Iconic Traits of Fictional Characters that Are Bullshit

Personally, I found the one about ST:TNG's Worf to be the funniest.  It's the graphic of "Things That Can Beat Worf in a Fight" and includes kittens and tribbles. :)

Still, I do wish that whoever the heck actually claims to be in charge this week of the comics had some tiny bit of a clue about the cognitive dissonance of this one on their list:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer revolves around a high school student who discovers she's actually a superhero destined to protect the earth against demons,

She's a reluctant hero who openly resents her abilities because they have stripped her of the chance of ever living a normal life, and because teenagers hate responsibility. In fact, she almost turns her back on her duties at the end of Season 1 and tries to run away at the end of Season 2 to escape the pressure of killing evil shit all the time.

Even by the final season, she's still complaining about how miserable it is. She tries to give an inspiring speech to a new group of vampire hunters, and instead it comes out as "I hate this. I hate being here. I hate that you have to be here. I hate that there's evil, and that I was chosen to fight it. I wish, a whole lot of the time, that I hadn't been." The point being, her powers are a curse, forcing her to save the world when all she wants is to be a regular girl

[ME:  Which was why the "woohoo! Sharing the power/empowerment!" mixed metaphor in "Chosen" was a hat trick they didn't QUITE pull off if you thought about it for a minute or so (especially if one includes the trainwreck of "Season 8"]

What's a "normal life" in the Buffy universe? How does she even have a concept of what normal is? Keep in mind, it's not like the demons only reveal themselves to her because she's a slayer, and everyone else gets to spend Saturday at the mall. The demons are real for everyone -- Sunnydale is a war zone. The only difference is that everyone else is helpless and she isn't.

Over seven seasons, we see enough bodies pile up in that town to know that the idea of normalcy doesn't exist for anyone. The show is set in a horrifying universe where every day, "normal" people have to worry about their organs being harvested, getting eviscerated by She-Mantises or being eaten by bullies possessed by demonic hyenas. Well over 10 students and faculty die every season at Sunnydale High School, and 100 percent of those deaths are murder by some supernatural creature. Being "normal" means being a vulnerable hunk of meat just burning time before getting eaten by a demon.

Buffy hasn't sacrificed her life for her powers; her powers are the only thing ensuring that she has a life. She is one of the few people capable of even stepping foot outside her house at night without having to worry about something crawling out of hell and planting eggs in her chest.

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5 Iconic Traits of Fictional Characters that Are Bullshit

Personally, I found the one about ST:TNG's Worf to be the funniest.  It's the graphic of "Things That Can Beat Worf in a Fight" and includes kittens and tribbles. :)

Still, I do wish that whoever the heck actually claims to be in charge this week of the comics had some tiny bit of a clue about the cognitive dissonance of this one on their list:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer revolves around a high school student who discovers she's actually a superhero destined to protect the earth against demons,

She's a reluctant hero who openly resents her abilities because they have stripped her of the chance of ever living a normal life, and because teenagers hate responsibility. In fact, she almost turns her back on her duties at the end of Season 1 and tries to run away at the end of Season 2 to escape the pressure of killing evil shit all the time.

Even by the final season, she's still complaining about how miserable it is. She tries to give an inspiring speech to a new group of vampire hunters, and instead it comes out as "I hate this. I hate being here. I hate that you have to be here. I hate that there's evil, and that I was chosen to fight it. I wish, a whole lot of the time, that I hadn't been." The point being, her powers are a curse, forcing her to save the world when all she wants is to be a regular girl

[ME:  Which was why the "woohoo! Sharing the power/empowerment!" mixed metaphor in "Chosen" was a hat trick they didn't QUITE pull off if you thought about it for a minute or so (especially if one includes the trainwreck of "Season 8"]

What's a "normal life" in the Buffy universe? How does she even have a concept of what normal is? Keep in mind, it's not like the demons only reveal themselves to her because she's a slayer, and everyone else gets to spend Saturday at the mall. The demons are real for everyone -- Sunnydale is a war zone. The only difference is that everyone else is helpless and she isn't.

Over seven seasons, we see enough bodies pile up in that town to know that the idea of normalcy doesn't exist for anyone. The show is set in a horrifying universe where every day, "normal" people have to worry about their organs being harvested, getting eviscerated by She-Mantises or being eaten by bullies possessed by demonic hyenas. Well over 10 students and faculty die every season at Sunnydale High School, and 100 percent of those deaths are murder by some supernatural creature. Being "normal" means being a vulnerable hunk of meat just burning time before getting eaten by a demon.

Buffy hasn't sacrificed her life for her powers; her powers are the only thing ensuring that she has a life. She is one of the few people capable of even stepping foot outside her house at night without having to worry about something crawling out of hell and planting eggs in her chest.

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Wow... that was awful

So, I saw that Anonymous was OnDemand this month.  (It was the movie that was saying that Shakespeare's plays weren't written by Shakespeare).

Friends, I watched it.  And I have to agree with the reviewer who said that it could have been a fun satirical farce.  However, trying to take this load of twaddle remotely seriously?  Ha!

Forget the entire "Shakespeare conspiracy" of it.  That was the nutty stuff I knew the movie was about.  And don't bother with "The Virgin Queen" wasn't actually a virgin, because that's always wondered about.   The topper of this ludicrous ice cream sundae is that it posits that Queen Elizabeth had not one, not two, but THREE bastard sons! (And history never noticed!)  

Just to make it even more ridiculous.  She actually gets pregnant by her own bastard son, and has a double bastard grandson!  She's a Granny-mommy (It's so Westeros!) 

Oh, she didn't know she had a child by her own child because, apparently, she had a way of losing track of her illegitimate children! (And of course nobles were all too willing to adopt these illegitimate foundlings, giving them their lands and titles... even though they gained no advantage from it because not even the queen knew what had happened to the spawn, who or where they were, or who was raising them! Irony is then found in her executing one of them for treason.  [That would be Essex].)

Oh,  and if you're curious, it's her illegitimate son-lover that she had her own grandson with who (this film claims) was the "real" William Shakespeare!

.... Riiiiiiiiggggghhhhhtttttt.  Bwhahahaha!

( The sad part is, the mini-stagings of bits of Shakespeare's plays are actually interesting.  And the mother/daughter team of Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson playing old and young Elizabeth respectively was quite fetching.  Given their identical eyes and cheekbones and their similar mannerisms, you could actually buy that they were the older and younger version of the same woman.)

Wow... that was awful

So, I saw that Anonymous was OnDemand this month.  (It was the movie that was saying that Shakespeare's plays weren't written by Shakespeare).

Friends, I watched it.  And I have to agree with the reviewer who said that it could have been a fun satirical farce.  However, trying to take this load of twaddle remotely seriously?  Ha!

Forget the entire "Shakespeare conspiracy" of it.  That was the nutty stuff I knew the movie was about.  And don't bother with "The Virgin Queen" wasn't actually a virgin, because that's always wondered about.   The topper of this ludicrous ice cream sundae is that it posits that Queen Elizabeth had not one, not two, but THREE bastard sons! (And history never noticed!)  

Just to make it even more ridiculous.  She actually gets pregnant by her own bastard son, and has a double bastard grandson!  She's a Granny-mommy (It's so Westeros!) 

Oh, she didn't know she had a child by her own child because, apparently, she had a way of losing track of her illegitimate children! (And of course nobles were all too willing to adopt these illegitimate foundlings, giving them their lands and titles... even though they gained no advantage from it because not even the queen knew what had happened to the spawn, who or where they were, or who was raising them! Irony is then found in her executing one of them for treason.  [That would be Essex].)

Oh,  and if you're curious, it's her illegitimate son-lover that she had her own grandson with who (this film claims) was the "real" William Shakespeare!

.... Riiiiiiiiggggghhhhhtttttt.  Bwhahahaha!

( The sad part is, the mini-stagings of bits of Shakespeare's plays are actually interesting.  And the mother/daughter team of Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson playing old and young Elizabeth respectively was quite fetching.  Given their identical eyes and cheekbones and their similar mannerisms, you could actually buy that they were the older and younger version of the same woman.)

Wow... that was awful

So, I saw that Anonymous was OnDemand this month.  (It was the movie that was saying that Shakespeare's plays weren't written by Shakespeare).

Friends, I watched it.  And I have to agree with the reviewer who said that it could have been a fun satirical farce.  However, trying to take this load of twaddle remotely seriously?  Ha!

Forget the entire "Shakespeare conspiracy" of it.  That was the nutty stuff I knew the movie was about.  And don't bother with "The Virgin Queen" wasn't actually a virgin, because that's always wondered about.   The topper of this ludicrous ice cream sundae is that it posits that Queen Elizabeth had not one, not two, but THREE bastard sons! (And history never noticed!)  

Just to make it even more ridiculous.  She actually gets pregnant by her own bastard son, and has a double bastard grandson!  She's a Granny-mommy (It's so Westeros!) 

Oh, she didn't know she had a child by her own child because, apparently, she had a way of losing track of her illegitimate children! (And of course nobles were all too willing to adopt these illegitimate foundlings, giving them their lands and titles... even though they gained no advantage from it because not even the queen knew what had happened to the spawn, who or where they were, or who was raising them! Irony is then found in her executing one of them for treason.  [That would be Essex].)

Oh,  and if you're curious, it's her illegitimate son-lover that she had her own grandson with who (this film claims) was the "real" William Shakespeare!

.... Riiiiiiiiggggghhhhhtttttt.  Bwhahahaha!

( The sad part is, the mini-stagings of bits of Shakespeare's plays are actually interesting.  And the mother/daughter team of Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson playing old and young Elizabeth respectively was quite fetching.  Given their identical eyes and cheekbones and their similar mannerisms, you could actually buy that they were the older and younger version of the same woman.)