Okay, but maybe in future you could hold off the sweeping statements? Because you keep saying things that are so clearly false and it's embarrasing. And then you're breaking out the CAPSLOCK OF RAGE, and all the "I've debated this at length on the boards" and it makes you kind of look like someone who really cares. [nitpick]Except for the constant misspelling of Whedon's name[/nitpick]
I mean, somewhere downthread you're using the fact that there are no disabled characters in Firefly to springboard into a rant about (and nice use of Us and Them, there, btw) the othering of disabled people. Except one of the main storylines of the show, and the film, is led by River, a child tortured and left with a mental illness so debilitating she needs a permanent 24 hour carer. Clearly, your deep analysis missed the exploration of the dynamics between carer and cared-for: the guilt, the obligation, the blame, and the deep battlefield-esque bond that formed. You missed River's anguish over being powerless, and her searching for a purpose, to be useful and to be whole. Or maybe you just discounted all that.
Your keen eyes failed to read comments before you responded. You can't restrain yourself from having a go at "fandom", when you're clearly in it. You take jabs at "quantity over quality" when you're riding the teal deer to the Misty Point. You're going on like someone who found themselves in the minority on a fanboard and went a bit pompous and eyetwitchy over it. Just, just stop. You're hurting my face.:/
...all those long, long essays on whether Hermione is right for Harry or Ron into academic-level literary criticism.
Well, no, but dude, I linked you to an academic journal. So your point is slightly lost on me. Is it, and this is just a guess, I'm right and anyone who disagrees with me is dumb, or excluded from validity in some arbitrary way, because I'm *right*, dammit ?
Because that's always fun! And useful!:/
Those sites are talking about lots of things, not just saying "Wheddon [sic], why do you make me cry! I love you!", which is what you said you had mostly encountered.
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Be cool, you crazy cat.
Okay, but maybe in future you could hold off the sweeping statements? Because you keep saying things that are so clearly false and it's embarrasing. And then you're breaking out the CAPSLOCK OF RAGE, and all the "I've debated this at length on the boards" and it makes you kind of look like someone who really cares.
[nitpick]Except for the constant misspelling of Whedon's name[/nitpick]
I mean, somewhere downthread you're using the fact that there are no disabled characters in Firefly to springboard into a rant about (and nice use of Us and Them, there, btw) the othering of disabled people. Except one of the main storylines of the show, and the film, is led by River, a child tortured and left with a mental illness so debilitating she needs a permanent 24 hour carer. Clearly, your deep analysis missed the exploration of the dynamics between carer and cared-for: the guilt, the obligation, the blame, and the deep battlefield-esque bond that formed. You missed River's anguish over being powerless, and her searching for a purpose, to be useful and to be whole. Or maybe you just discounted all that.
Your keen eyes failed to read comments before you responded. You can't restrain yourself from having a go at "fandom", when you're clearly in it. You take jabs at "quantity over quality" when you're riding the teal deer to the Misty Point. You're going on like someone who found themselves in the minority on a fanboard and went a bit pompous and eyetwitchy over it. Just, just stop. You're hurting my face. :/
Well, no, but dude, I linked you to an academic journal. So your point is slightly lost on me. Is it, and this is just a guess, I'm right and anyone who disagrees with me is dumb, or excluded from validity in some arbitrary way, because I'm *right*, dammit ?
Because that's always fun! And useful! :/
Those sites are talking about lots of things, not just saying "Wheddon [sic], why do you make me cry! I love you!", which is what you said you had mostly encountered.
"Buffy fans, in my experience, aren't really open to the kind of fine-distinctions you're talking about"
I think you are praps not being completely totally honest here maybe?
Because if Buffy fans are known for anything, it's overthinking.