Webcomic Update: Clear Eyes, Full Heart
I honestly read Buffy as tearing up (ever so slightly) in that last panel of the webcomic, and when I mentioned it the first few folks responding agreed with me, so I just took it for self-evident. Anyway, turns out most people don't read it that way. So I asked Georges and he said he thinks there's an emotional content to the question Buffy is
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That's the problem with always being able to ask the pros. I think our reaction, our ability to compose and construct the disjointed pieces to recontextualize the meaning is the point.
The creators toss the ball and we catch it. We're both so active in the process that perceived miscommunications like "is it a tear? is it not a tear?" aren't really the point to me, but rather just a part of what comes together to convey a holistic sense of the story.
Emmie I just wanted to say that I really love what you are saying here. I'd apply the same reasoning to the show itself. That's why I don't have too much interest in DVD commentaries, or creator interviews - for me what matters is what I saw and felt, and how I analyze and synthesize it afterward. What it meant to me, regardless of what the creators intended.
I learned a long time ago that once you share something (book, poem, whatnot) it's no longer entirely yours. Each person who experiences it creates their own meaning, and it's out of my hands. If the reaction is wildly different from what I intended, as a creator I can either say that's not what I meant but I'm ok with that; or wonder if I made a mistake in not expressing my intentions.
The attitude with some of "the PTB", people like Joss, or Baz Luhrmann, seems to be that if we don't see things the way they intended, then we don't understand THEM, we just don't get it, and we're not doing our job, instead of the other way around.)
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