'Home' was a bit of a shocker. I was a bit spoiled, but it was still a shock. I admit there was a little yelling going on from my end of the cathode. "NO!!!! Bad, BAD idea. Have you not been talking to anyone in the Dale, dead people coming back to talk to you equals bad bad things. WHAT???? What are doing you great lump of dead matter. Don't talk to her, don't listen, uh? Oh dear, he's really lost it! What is he doi...S***! OK, right, he's your son, do what you have to. What do you mean 'who's Connor'? Oh no, oh no, oh no, it'll all end in tears, mark my words, it'll all end in tears."
He was right about rollorcoaster, I was left feeling dizzy and a little sick at the end. Yet I was still ready to queue for the next big ride. *grins* Finish this sentence 'glutton for _______'.
I just couldn’t believe they were going to go through with it and have him kill Connor. Right up to the white out. I mean I know they did it with Buffy in Becoming II, but this wasn’t about saving the world.
Stephanie Romanov does a great job tottering forward precariously on her Manolo Blahniks. It looks as if one push and her head really would come off.
Yes! I pointed that out to someone once and was told that I was imagining it, but I love how SR looks slightly off-balance during many of her scenes. Actually, I just love her in general in "Home". She very nearly steals the episode.
Angel was never a character that I naturally rooted for but I get the love now.
Angel is not a character I generally root for either, but he is tremendously sympathetic in "Home". I wish S5 had dealt more with the other characters finding out about the memory wipe and confronting Angel about it, because I thought his doing the wrong thing for the right reasons regarding Connor was an interesting dilemma that never really got addressed.
I was just reading azdak’s review of Origin and she makes an interesting point that’s expressed by Illyria during the episode. Paraphrasing slightly:
If identity is nothing but an assembly of recollections (we are what we remember), then people are constantly changing, as a result of experiences that lay down new memories, so whether those new memories are acquired now or retroactively is unimportant. There’s no fixed Platonic Ideal Self that can violated anyway. You just are who you are at any one time.In any case it is striking that in all three cases that ME’s brought up the idea of memories being tampered with it’s never been dealt with as an unforgivable crime. With Dawn everyone just accepted the changes. As you’d hope people would with a metaphor for finding out that someone was adopted. With Willow, Tara does get to express her outrage but that’s about all. On the whole the Lethe spell gets treated as if it were analogous to Willow covering for things by lying about them rather than committing mind rape. I suppose you
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He was right about rollorcoaster, I was left feeling dizzy and a little sick at the end. Yet I was still ready to queue for the next big ride. *grins* Finish this sentence 'glutton for _______'.
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Yes! I pointed that out to someone once and was told that I was imagining it, but I love how SR looks slightly off-balance during many of her scenes. Actually, I just love her in general in "Home". She very nearly steals the episode.
Angel was never a character that I naturally rooted for but I get the love now.
Angel is not a character I generally root for either, but he is tremendously sympathetic in "Home". I wish S5 had dealt more with the other characters finding out about the memory wipe and confronting Angel about it, because I thought his doing the wrong thing for the right reasons regarding Connor was an interesting dilemma that never really got addressed.
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If identity is nothing but an assembly of recollections (we are what we remember), then people are constantly changing, as a result of experiences that lay down new memories, so whether those new memories are acquired now or retroactively is unimportant. There’s no fixed Platonic Ideal Self that can violated anyway. You just are who you are at any one time.In any case it is striking that in all three cases that ME’s brought up the idea of memories being tampered with it’s never been dealt with as an unforgivable crime. With Dawn everyone just accepted the changes. As you’d hope people would with a metaphor for finding out that someone was adopted. With Willow, Tara does get to express her outrage but that’s about all. On the whole the Lethe spell gets treated as if it were analogous to Willow covering for things by lying about them rather than committing mind rape. I suppose you ( ... )
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