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[rivkat]

Naturally, right after I spent $130 at Borders, they sent me a 15% off coupon, good everywhere in the US for the next few days. Anyone who wants it, drop me a note with your email address, here or at AOL.

In other news, Z. and I are watching Buffy Season 3, slowly, and I just can't agree with jennyo that Wes is a sociopath. There's plenty in the DSM-IV about Wes, for sure, but the man we see on Buffy is awkward in all the wrong ways for sociopathy. Interesting bit in "Choices," though, where he's prepared to let Willow die for the greater good, though obviously unhappy about it; that's a nice bit of character consistency. Apparently Z. finally understood why I liked Buffy when I made him watch "Earshot," because he really liked "We talked, then he fed me the heart of a demon, then we talked some more." "Just the way it should be." (He also liked the earlier bit where Principal Snyder asks Willow and Xander "Are you helping?" (with Buffy's poster-making) and Willow reassures him, "Oh no, we're hindering.") For me, the dialogue winner of the episodes we've seen recently is in "Choices," when Faith shoots the courier bringing the Mayor's box, the Mayor's vamp flunky exclaims, "You killed him!" and Faith looks at him askance and asks, "What are you? The narrator?"

God, I loved that show.

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[eliade.livejournal.com]

For me, the dialogue winner of the episodes we've seen recently is in "Choices," when Faith shoots the courier bringing the Mayor's box, the Mayor's vamp flunky exclaims, "You killed him!" and Faith looks at him askance and asks, "What are you? The narrator?"

Thank you for quoting that. I feel immensely and strangely cheered all of a sudden. *g*

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you guys would love the Buffyquotes community.

P.S. I love the Mayor. He was the best Buffy villian. He's so cheerful.

[jennyo.livejournal.com]

That's okay. I don't know if I agree with me. I think I'm looking for a better word....more like, whatever makes Drusilla the one who's most dangerous makes Wes the most dangerous for me. I do see a possibility of utter nihilism in him, but where it comes from is open to debate. That was just the word Sheila and I happened to choose.

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

Drusilla is a murderous innocent, which makes her both scary and tragic.

Wesley these days partakes of the Extremely Dangerous Intellectual character archetype, which comes close to being one of my bulletproof kinks. (Which is why it's probably a good thing I never knew my Old Icelandic professor in his prime. Even in his seventies, the man had a powerful charisma; if I'd been around to meet him in 1945, when he was a Colonel in US Army Intelligence, I doubt that my virtue would have been safe.)

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's that there's nothing Wes can't give up, though I think for him it's a matter of self-hatred rather than what it is with Dru, which is a disregard for the material world; she sees spirits, so it doesn't matter if someone leaves her. But I can see that link between them.

[circelily.livejournal.com]

On Borders - voucher. Could you return a book to the shop and re-buy it at a different counter?

On Buffy-love. Oddly, as I was at work today, unable to concentrate on work-like things, I was thinking "God I loved that show". I'm weirdly grateful that it tailed off *so* badly in Season 7, cos I would have been utterly miserable if it had ended with season 3. This way, I got to gradually have some of the obsession leaked out of me so that suttee with Spike was NOT an option by the time it happened.

The question I've got is *how* do you watch seasons slowly? When I got Season 6 videos last year I watched all 22 eps in a 36 hour period. Then I kept rewatching the "Crash" B/S relationship going "I can't believe they got away with this! On a teen show! Wow!" Because it was fanfic coming to life. Or rather screen. And it was the first time I actually watched Buffy-the-show for Buffy-the-character.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I assume you could do that; it's not like they'd know. The coupon is only valid until the 12th, so let me know your email address if you want it. It looks as if it's only valid in Tyson's Corner, but if you read the small, bold print it's valid everywhere.

As for Buffy, slow is easy, because I'm watching them with my husband, and it's hard to get him to stay still for more than one at a time. I'm more the "lost weekend" type myself, but he makes us pace.

[circelily.livejournal.com]

Oh - I meant you, not me on the Borders thing. Thanks for the offer but I'm UK - easier for a Stateside person.

I approve the encouraging Buffy-addiction in the nearest and dearest - unfortunately, my sig oth starting out liking Buffy and is now overwhelmed his girlie's fixation. Especially as I just borrowed S1 and S2 DVDs *just for the extras* as I already have all videos released in Blighty (up to S6). Hmmm, maybe he has a point :-)