Blackmail commentary, part 2/2

[antennapedia]

DVD commentary on Blackmail, continued from commentary part 1.

Comments

[fuzzyboo03]

I agree with you about catharsis. It doesn't even have to be sex, really, not that I think from your comments that you're bounding it that way.

I say this because I did have an experience I cannot describe as anything other than profound and cathartic. It kicked me out of a depressive episode, and the memory of it is still quite powerful.

[antennapedia]

My depressive episodes have also ended with intense emotional experiences after which things were just different. Can be difficult to explain to other people. "And then one day I just got over it." "Reconnection" part 1 is about that kind of thing, too.

[fuzzyboo03]

Yeah. I've even tried talking about the experience with my therapist but I can tell she's not really getting it. For me, it wasn't entirely out of the blue, it was prompted by a movie I saw actually, which makes it sound, I don't know, shallower that it really was. I came out of it thinking that even though I didn't see how it could happen, that there was still hope for coming out of all this walking, and I need to be able to hold on to that.

[seldomifever]

That's actually exactly what happens to Woody Allen's character in Hannah and Her Sisters. He's suicidal and watches a Marx Bros movie that completely changes his outlook.

[seldomifever]

I often imagine Giles with an oral fixation. It's those canonical lollipops and bananas. He'll love doing this for men and women both.

I love that you use this. You said that in Hazy Solos, and I thought it was perfect. Of course, canon has been influenced by ASH's fondness for hand props.

[antennapedia]

A character in a TV show is a complicated construction. It's the actor + the producer + the writers + the directors, all working together to build the fictional person. There's a lot of ASH's work in Giles, from the clothes to the props to the business with the handkerchief. But Giles is more than ASH. (He's a lot smarter and better educated, for one thing, which is not meant as insult to ASH because Giles is smarter and better educated than me, too.)

[nutterbudgie]

It is indeed sad to hear Mr.P does not read your B/G smut - Mr. Budgie is very happy whenever you write new 'Blackmail'.
Oh Giles, you ardent swain you. *happy sigh*

[antennapedia]

I suspect him of reading more than he lets on. But if he finds it at all interesting or upsetting or badly-written or well-written, he never says a word to me. Sigh.