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Does this make me a Bad Fan?
Confession #1:
I'm approximately 1 gazillion times more excited about Mama Mia! opening today than I am about The Dark Knight, despite the fact that I can see The Dark Knight at no less than 2 IMAX theaters within easy driving distance.
Confession #2:
It appears that I will buy anything David Simon does because, as it turns out, he's my favorite author (for television) ever. I own the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, all 7 seasons plus television movie of Homicide: Life on the Street, the book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the HBO series The Corner, and the first 4 seasons of The Wire (with Season 5 on order for immediate shipping when it's available next month).
I am counting down to when Generation Kill will be available on DVD (I don't get HBO) so I can get my hands on it.
In short, you know how people will buy anything Joss Whedon does (even when it's total crap) and call him a genius for it (even though it's a case of the emperor walking around completely starkers)?
This is apparently how I treat productions involving David Simon, Ed Burns, and partners.
How can I put this...long before I let any of David Simon's stuff out of my hands, I will sell both my Angel and Buffy box sets.
The hell with that. I will burn my Angel and Buffy box sets before I give up any of David Simon's stuff.
(Seriously, those of you who kept looking for meaning in the "numbered shirts" of Buffy Season 6 that actually didn't have any meaning beyond, "We found a bunch of these for cheap in thrift shops?" Try The Wire, which actually has twice the meaning and twice the mythic elements of any Angel and Buffy episode without requiring you to fanwank. Best of all? The Wire actually has continuity that puts most book series to shame. No. I'm not kidding.)
I'm approximately 1 gazillion times more excited about Mama Mia! opening today than I am about The Dark Knight, despite the fact that I can see The Dark Knight at no less than 2 IMAX theaters within easy driving distance.
Confession #2:
It appears that I will buy anything David Simon does because, as it turns out, he's my favorite author (for television) ever. I own the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, all 7 seasons plus television movie of Homicide: Life on the Street, the book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the HBO series The Corner, and the first 4 seasons of The Wire (with Season 5 on order for immediate shipping when it's available next month).
I am counting down to when Generation Kill will be available on DVD (I don't get HBO) so I can get my hands on it.
In short, you know how people will buy anything Joss Whedon does (even when it's total crap) and call him a genius for it (even though it's a case of the emperor walking around completely starkers)?
This is apparently how I treat productions involving David Simon, Ed Burns, and partners.
How can I put this...long before I let any of David Simon's stuff out of my hands, I will sell both my Angel and Buffy box sets.
The hell with that. I will burn my Angel and Buffy box sets before I give up any of David Simon's stuff.
(Seriously, those of you who kept looking for meaning in the "numbered shirts" of Buffy Season 6 that actually didn't have any meaning beyond, "We found a bunch of these for cheap in thrift shops?" Try The Wire, which actually has twice the meaning and twice the mythic elements of any Angel and Buffy episode without requiring you to fanwank. Best of all? The Wire actually has continuity that puts most book series to shame. No. I'm not kidding.)
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Then again, WarEmblem seems convinced that Spike and Dawn had a "special relationship" that spanned the last 3 seasons (Ummmmm, no. Everyone commented at the time how Spike dropped Dawn like a hot potato as soon as he got Buffy), so I suspect his/her point of view is slightly Spike-centric.
Although I really love the part where WarEmblem would've had more respect if he was a Shaggy-style stoner. That made me go, "Whut?" Heeee!
No, really, it's pretty funny. WarEmblem seems hell-bent and determined to convince people that Xander is a Very Bad Person Who Deserves Badness Because Clearly He Wouldn't Be Fighting Evil If He Wasn't Crushing On Buffy and everyone else point out in-text reasons why WarEmblem is kinda wrong.
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And since WarEmblem declared that he/she is convinced that Buffy was actually in love with Spike in Season Six, and that was the real reason why she was so conflicted about having sex with him, in spite of all the canon evidence to the contrary, I'm pretty sure we know which corner of the internet WarEmblem hung out in.
As for the comments about Xander only being there because he still crushes on Buffy, I find it to be an example of the many double standards applied to Xander as a character. Angel and Spike are both shown to be pettily and pathetically still unable to get over Buffy, and it's hailed as Twu Wuv and swoonworthy. Yet despite five seasons of solid evidence that Xander did get over his crush on Buffy, the Xander bashers just looooove to drag out the chestnut that he has always been crushing/in lust with her (note that it's never that he was "in love" with her, 'cause that would somehow make it "all right") and turn it into "proof" that he's just an unprincipled, unthinking scumbag who only wants to get inside Buffy's pants. *eyeroll*