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I think it knows I've been seeing other devices. I missed both showings of last week's SV, and the first fifteen minutes of tonight's Buffy. Any kind person in the NYC area have a tape available of Buffy?
On the other hand, my flings with other hardware are going well: the 30-gig iPod is dreamy, and Jaguar seems pretty good so far, but it's obvious I need more RAM to make it snappy. Apple's Music Store is also quite nice, especially for one-hit 80s wonders, though I must remember to check Half for full CDs to see which is cheaper, used or .aac format.
Returning to Buffy, let me take this opportunity invite NYC-area folks to a Buffy finale party, starting about 7:30 on the 20th: a whole lot of hoot and just a little bit of nanny. RSVP here or to RivkaT@aol.com. Dip will be provided, along with the culinary wonders of Z.
Vague SV spoilers (and analysis) next.
This just in: Fathers are creepy, their dreams for their children twisted and twisting. It's interesting to me that in Buffy, fathers are absent -- the Lack, to abuse Lacanian terms -- while in SV, fathers are all too present. It's not a coincidence that Buffy is about girl power, while SV is about girl powerlessness when it notices girls. Does the myth have to be patriarchal and father-heavy? Does Kronos have to kill his father and eat his children?
I guess I was aware from Buffy that the girl-empowerment story needed to make up its own mythical history -- thus all the demons we've never heard of, possibly especially those in Hush. I just hadn't confronted the flip side, which was the sheer masculine rage, the furious attempt to preserve potency by molding and breaking the next generation, in the more standard versions of the hero story.
It also struck me again that Lex is going to end up seeing Lionel in Clark. They both scoff at Lex's open-minded (and, in fact, correct) attitude towards ETs, and they're both lying through their smiles. It's not just the lies, it's the attempt to convince Lex that he's crazy. I'm not saying that Clark will "make" Lex go bad -- reserving judgment, though, on Lionel -- just that things will be worse because, for Lex, fighting with Clark will be tangled up with fighting his father.
Finally, I'm amused that the de-gaying of the show has become so desperate as to rewrite the "meet violent" of Clark & Lex as occurring between Clark & Lana. (This entry was almost titled "You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore When You Aspirate Water.") Yet Lex is still stuck picking the wedding colors; I'm thinking that they've given up on him, allowing him to ooze sex nondiscriminatorily over male, female, animate, inanimate, Lana, etc., and they're just trying to save Clark from Lex's bi-clutches.
On the other hand, my flings with other hardware are going well: the 30-gig iPod is dreamy, and Jaguar seems pretty good so far, but it's obvious I need more RAM to make it snappy. Apple's Music Store is also quite nice, especially for one-hit 80s wonders, though I must remember to check Half for full CDs to see which is cheaper, used or .aac format.
Returning to Buffy, let me take this opportunity invite NYC-area folks to a Buffy finale party, starting about 7:30 on the 20th: a whole lot of hoot and just a little bit of nanny. RSVP here or to RivkaT@aol.com. Dip will be provided, along with the culinary wonders of Z.
Vague SV spoilers (and analysis) next.
This just in: Fathers are creepy, their dreams for their children twisted and twisting. It's interesting to me that in Buffy, fathers are absent -- the Lack, to abuse Lacanian terms -- while in SV, fathers are all too present. It's not a coincidence that Buffy is about girl power, while SV is about girl powerlessness when it notices girls. Does the myth have to be patriarchal and father-heavy? Does Kronos have to kill his father and eat his children?
I guess I was aware from Buffy that the girl-empowerment story needed to make up its own mythical history -- thus all the demons we've never heard of, possibly especially those in Hush. I just hadn't confronted the flip side, which was the sheer masculine rage, the furious attempt to preserve potency by molding and breaking the next generation, in the more standard versions of the hero story.
It also struck me again that Lex is going to end up seeing Lionel in Clark. They both scoff at Lex's open-minded (and, in fact, correct) attitude towards ETs, and they're both lying through their smiles. It's not just the lies, it's the attempt to convince Lex that he's crazy. I'm not saying that Clark will "make" Lex go bad -- reserving judgment, though, on Lionel -- just that things will be worse because, for Lex, fighting with Clark will be tangled up with fighting his father.
Finally, I'm amused that the de-gaying of the show has become so desperate as to rewrite the "meet violent" of Clark & Lex as occurring between Clark & Lana. (This entry was almost titled "You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore When You Aspirate Water.") Yet Lex is still stuck picking the wedding colors; I'm thinking that they've given up on him, allowing him to ooze sex nondiscriminatorily over male, female, animate, inanimate, Lana, etc., and they're just trying to save Clark from Lex's bi-clutches.
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