God, I love Angel.

I rewatched Life of the Party. I was planning on just going through to see what I needed for the vid and... ended up going out and rewatching the episode. It made me laugh and think and... happy place. Buffyverse is such a happy place for me now. Closing canon does an odd thing for me -- if I like something enough, I end up not ( Read more... )

A great movie is one that lasts. A movie that you want to watch again, and when you do, it still hits you in your heart and mind.

Moulin Rouge is a great movie. I've seen it more times that I've counted and I always get just as caught up in it. I get swept into this world of color and passion and pain, and I just live there until the movie ( Read more... )

This is the beginnings of a much longer essay that I haven't written yet.
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Or, musing on the Scoobies.
( spoils up to 'Chosen' )

( spoilers for 'The Killer in Me )

So, Osiris is the guy that Wills screamed at, at least by proxy, in Villains. I was just reading a due South fic, and Fraser's reading an interesting poem by D.H. Lawrence.

Anyway, the relevent part:
Torn, to become whole again, after long seeking for what is lost,
The same cry from the tortoise as from Christ, the Osiris-cry of abandonmentThat ( Read more... )

Set after Entropy.

New Attitude
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One thing that strikes me about the Buffyverse is how often the 'good guy' talks to the 'evil guy' and insults them and they're really talking about themselves.

Xander to Anya in Entropy.
Buffy to Spike in Dead Things.
Willow to Warren in Villains.

They are their own worst enemy.

"I've heard this before."
"You haven't learned anything."

That sounds like it could be about Willow. She keeps hearing the lesson about magic having a price, about the need to respect the powers that she's using.

That's about Anakin.

And he was only redeemed the moment before his death.