I assumed that Boyd had turned Claire into a sleeper agent and was definitely in on it. But I guess you can fanwank it however you want to!
I know a lot of people who are non-fans of Joss say that he's done it so often it ended up cheap and manipulative a long while ago, but I've also read some great defenses about how he creates dangerous worlds, and people are gonna go down. My main problem with it is not that he kills characters--I love his dangerous worlds--but that I can always guess who it's gonna be. It's always (nearly) right after two people have been happy together and the other one gets cut down: Jenny, Tara, Joyce (well, the happiness there was her recovery, but same difference), Spike, Fred, Wash (happiness was being a leaf on the wind), Bennett, now Mellie. I also predicted Penny, too. That irks the hell out of me. I'm no longer surprised, I'm expecting it. I don't want to expect it, you know?
I get that they're crammed for time and all writing-wise, but there's still hints that Topher's pretty messed up (hand touch!). LOVE. IT.
HAHAHA! I love your overview.
Miracle Laurie is made of awesomeness and beauty and wonderful things. I adore her.
just feel like her arc, apart from Needs, has always been about serving Paul's arc in turn and because Paul is gross and stupid that frustrates me big time. YES.
I expected not to like Topher and was major skeeved by him for a long while. But now I am an unapologetic Topher fangirl, and it's pretty awesome!
If he goes there, I will still be interested in his future stuff, but I'll be all purse-lipped and foot-tapping and "really, Joss? Find some other way to shock and compel me. BECAUSE MAKING THE COMPELLING CHARACTERS DROP LIKE FLIES IN THE FIRST PLACE IS NOT THE WAY TO DO IT." Well, I may be slightly exaggerating--I'll probably let him pull me back in. But I'm in exactly the same place: I want him to do some maturing, break free of his own cliches and YESYESYES get over his skanky race issues NOW PLEASE (seriously: does he recognize how problematic it is that the sexual victim on his show is the one Asian girl? I think these things don't even enter his head).
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I assumed that Boyd had turned Claire into a sleeper agent and was definitely in on it. But I guess you can fanwank it however you want to!
I know a lot of people who are non-fans of Joss say that he's done it so often it ended up cheap and manipulative a long while ago, but I've also read some great defenses about how he creates dangerous worlds, and people are gonna go down. My main problem with it is not that he kills characters--I love his dangerous worlds--but that I can always guess who it's gonna be. It's always (nearly) right after two people have been happy together and the other one gets cut down: Jenny, Tara, Joyce (well, the happiness there was her recovery, but same difference), Spike, Fred, Wash (happiness was being a leaf on the wind), Bennett, now Mellie. I also predicted Penny, too. That irks the hell out of me. I'm no longer surprised, I'm expecting it. I don't want to expect it, you know?
I get that they're crammed for time and all writing-wise, but there's still hints that Topher's pretty messed up (hand touch!). LOVE. IT.
HAHAHA! I love your overview.
Miracle Laurie is made of awesomeness and beauty and wonderful things. I adore her.
just feel like her arc, apart from Needs, has always been about serving Paul's arc in turn and because Paul is gross and stupid that frustrates me big time.
YES.
I expected not to like Topher and was major skeeved by him for a long while. But now I am an unapologetic Topher fangirl, and it's pretty awesome!
If he goes there, I will still be interested in his future stuff, but I'll be all purse-lipped and foot-tapping and "really, Joss? Find some other way to shock and compel me. BECAUSE MAKING THE COMPELLING CHARACTERS DROP LIKE FLIES IN THE FIRST PLACE IS NOT THE WAY TO DO IT."
Well, I may be slightly exaggerating--I'll probably let him pull me back in. But I'm in exactly the same place: I want him to do some maturing, break free of his own cliches and YESYESYES get over his skanky race issues NOW PLEASE (seriously: does he recognize how problematic it is that the sexual victim on his show is the one Asian girl? I think these things don't even enter his head).