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[shipperx]

*  It's funny, I can get more worked up about the ancillary political debates surrounding the BtVS comics than the fact that within the comic
Buffy is a robot.



I mean, I'm fully aware of the problematic subtext of 'woman loses control of her own body" (hence the ancillary political arguments) but the fact that Joss pulled a 'gotcha!" or that he truncated a Spuffy discussion so that--as ever--it remains unfinished, Buffy's feelings remain opaque, and arguably no interaction at all may have taken place (depending on certain factors regarding Buffy). 

Well that's just.. typical.



* Zoe was trembling this morning when I tried to leave the house.  I'm not sure whether she's ill (she did throw up during the night, but she didn't appear at all ill this morning when I woke her up for her walk).  SHe got wet this morning on her walk because of all the dew (quite wet) and she did lay down on her bed in my bedroom where I had the ceiling fan running (because it was HOT last night.  OMG is it really just March?  I almost turned on the air conditioning) so maybe she got cold?  Mom came over to check on her and she said that she's not trembling and has eaten, had water, and played since I left so maybe it was nothing.  Still it was concerning.



* It's hot again today.  When I went out for lunch my car was HOT.  It's only MARCH!



* Not a lot was on tv last night.  "Modern Family" was 'eh'.  Patricia Heaton has sapped my enjoyment from "The Middle."  "Happy Endings" was rather forgettable.  And "Daily Show" and "Colbert" were only so-so.



*sigh*  Ennui.

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[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

It's hot again today. When I went out for lunch my car was HOT. It's only MARCH!


I can imagine.

We've been hitting the lower to mid 70s the last few days and the trend is supposed to continue next week. I shudder to think what July/August will be like if this keeps up.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I know! And tonight... I turned on the air conditioning. Crazy.

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I went out at lunch time to take a walk, and at first I was all 'please don't let it rain!", but about halfway through I was kinda hoping for a cooling shower. LOL

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I know! The other morning was so humid that -- though everything is already waterlogged -- I was still hoping that a rain would clear some of the humidity!

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Aww, poor Zoebabe. But yeah, she probably got chilled. Cache often comes in from his morning outing shivering a bit.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

She seems fine this evening -- eating, playing, chewing, etc. So I guess that's all that it was. I'm glad. She had me worried when she was shivering. She usually is quite calm when I leave in the morning (after her pee and her walk and some play time in the yard, I suspect she goes to sleep right after I leave and only wakes up again when my mom comes by late morning), so when she was shivering when I was leaving this morning, I was concerned.

[mlgm.livejournal.com]

Pip, my little rat terrier, often comes in shivering when she gets wet. Doesn't stop her from wanting to go out and run after the ball.

OK, I admit I'd like to read the Buffy conversation. I'm so out of fandom, where does one go?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

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Season 9 comics thread - Issue 7 full spoilers

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I'm so tired of GOTCHA storytelling. Ever since they revealed that dismemberment cover, I knew that was what was going down. Not in a specific sense, but the game of GOTCHA was clearly on. The writers are still having fun with WTFery. It's Cordelia 2.0 where we didn't know it wasn't really Buffy, but it is, but she's pregnant, but wait is she pregnant?

At what point does postmodernity deconstruct itself into nothingness? Now Joss keeps revisiting his own stories and retelling them rather than looking to the wider 'verse of literature for primary inspiration. He keeps deconstructing his own uber specific rendition of this story and it's just gotten to the point that I can't emotionally engage.

He's gone down the rabbit hole, but I don't there's another side, it's just the same story with the presentation changed. And I'm tired of it.

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Also, it was hot here, too. 80 degree weather in March? WHUH?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm agreeing with Reddygirl in that I think execution matters. I say that because as wary as I am of Joss doing this (Dude, I saw what he did to Cordy. Hijacked then killed her. Joss has a poor history with this trope). I have to admit to not having been all that bothered by Amy Pond's plot (then again, her child's conception had no hint of dubcon).

More, I remember Farscape's "Two Crichtons" plot with great, squeeing fangirl love. But, the two Crichtons plot wasn't a 'gotcha'. We knew there were two of them. We knew when it happened. We knew he was cloned. He knew he was cloned. And Aeryn knew that he'd been cloned. (We never knew which was the original and which was the clone though. They were both John Crichton... up to the moment they were separated. Which was the point. They were the same person... and then they lived different lives. And their different lives made them different people. (So when one of the John's died, despite knowing even as he died that there was another John... it was 'her' John that died. She couldn't just change Johns. And that was a really wonderful plot because in it's overall plot it played first on how the two john's weren't the same because they lived different lives, and the next season she had to accept how they were the same. It had some truly wonderful angst.

BUT -- John wasn't hijacked. The plot wasn't played as a 'gotcha.' And both he and the characters knew that there were two of them. So it was exploring issues other than that (and I admit that I love the fact that they never clarified which was the original Crichton. They both were).

This plot? This feels quite different.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I feel like the execution's already been shown as skeevy. With the sensationalized dismemberment cover (as the hook!) and then having the Spuffy moment interrupted by Buffy getting her arm ripped off only to then discover she's a robot.

I enjoyed DW S6, even though I understood all the criticism and I wasn't thrilled by what it meant for Amy's character in how she was treated. But that was done with way more sensitivity then this.

The way the Doctor zapped flesh!Amy. Compare that to Robo!Buffy getting her arm ripped off. It just... doesn't compare at all. One is emotionally resonant, the other just feels like they're shocking us with a taser.

The thing is, with Amy's story, I never got the impression we were supposed to be find it funny. It was really heartbreaking and sad to watch, imo. With Buffy, it's like there's this built-in crack factor on the surface of the whole thing. It makes it really hard for me to care.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Buffy's a robot? I think Joss has lost his teeny little mind. Also, I think people are right and Zoe was chilled. Puppies don't always regulate their body temperatures perfectly.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yes. Apparently she's a robot. She didn't know she was a robot. And no one knows when she became a robot. But... she's a robot.

She's also same as she ever was regarding Spike. She says that she's ashamed because people look at her the same way they look at Spike. That if she ran off with him it wouldn't work and would basically be squalid. When someone assumes that Spike is her boyfriend, she gets angry and confronts Spike who tells her that he still loves her. And, of course, she can't respond because her arm is ripped off revealing... she's a robot.

Such is what's left of Joss Whedon and his 'ideas'

And I do think that Zoe was just chilled. She's been perfectly fine since.