I never had an issue with that episode in particular, but I do appreciate the meta for, among other things, focusing on the fact that people can't simply go for days without sleep! And not only is this exaggeration made often in fiction, but so many TV and movie stories seem to happen continuously so that we never see people sleeping and rarely eating either, as if they could keep doing everything they're doing without rest or fuel.
I happen to agree with beer_good about the stimulants, it's common in the military but there's also a good comment about that on the AO3 version of the post. All of which is to say, there are still new things to say about this series after all these years!
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And that Buffy x Spike x Faith artwork is fabulous.
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I support 2) (yes, suddenly that whole stupid episode makes a lot more sense!) and 4) (awesome artwork!) and will have to go and read the other two!
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I never had an issue with that episode in particular, but I do appreciate the meta for, among other things, focusing on the fact that people can't simply go for days without sleep! And not only is this exaggeration made often in fiction, but so many TV and movie stories seem to happen continuously so that we never see people sleeping and rarely eating either, as if they could keep doing everything they're doing without rest or fuel.
I happen to agree with beer_good about the stimulants, it's common in the military but there's also a good comment about that on the AO3 version of the post. All of which is to say, there are still new things to say about this series after all these years!
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Thanks! For some reason I have made more icons of Giles than any other character. He's just very iconic :-)
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