There was a Tumblr meta linked in today's su_herald about the episode "Billy" and its final scene (holy fuck Tumblr is confusing, I can barely follow the conversation threads, let alone the arguments), and it seemed to me that all the problems the commenters had with the episode were... exactly what the episode was highlighting? Like, OF COURSE, it's ( Read more... )

Wow, I have a lot to say about this episode. I think it's one of the most underrated of the series. I know the setting seems crazy and random, but there's actually a point to it-like most things on this show.

Why We Fight: An Essay on Truth and Purpose
Written for fantas_magoria; prompt here

Frank Capra is best known as the Oscar-winning director of idealistic, ( Read more... )

upupa_epops is hosting this really cool meta-comment-a-thon over in her LJ. All fandoms! Everyone who enjoys meta should read it; you might find something that ignites your brain.


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This is an essay on the AtS Season 5 episode, "Underneath," written by Sarah Fain & Elizabeth Craft. For crazydiamondsue's Buffyverse Mini-Marathon Discussion.
Damn, I love this episode. It’s bleak and dark and desperate-perhaps the most despairing episode in all of the Jossverse. Yet I love it to pieces, because it encapsulates nearly all of the themes that Joss ( Read more... )

This is my essay for the Essay-a-thon. There's no master list up yet, but Tania said we could post if we were ready, and I want to get this off my plate ( Read more... )