My Buffy Came Back Wrong meta series is 40,000 words of long longness. If you're like me, it's easier to read something of that length on an ebook reader or somesuch similar device.

I'm offering up ebook versions of the meta. It includes the analysis of every episode, organized with chapter breaks and a table of contents. I've also included The ( Read more... )

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There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

- Sylvia Plath, The Bell JarYes, guys, this is the final installment of the Buffy Came Back Wrong meta. Let me get some acknowledgments out there before diving into the last three ( Read more... )

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There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20 ( Read more... )

I was just about to go to bed when I realized that I missed something uber-important in the last Buffy Came Back Wrong post. And nobody called me on it! What?? Come on, guys!

Cause I didn't even mention the significance of Spike's crypt being destroyed in AYW. Think about how the crypt has been used as a symbol from After Life to Dead Things. It's ( Read more... )

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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- the Buddha

Yep. It's that time again. We're coming off the heels of Dead Things (and OAFA). Buffy has clued in to the fact that things ( Read more... )

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"Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer."

- Dorothy Rowe

Yep, it's been a while since I've tackled this. With good reason, too. We're now approaching Dead Things, one of the central episodes of Buffy's depression arc. It's something that ( Read more... )

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"Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain ... it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion."

- William Styron

"I saw the days of the year ( Read more... )

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When we forget the real reason we are living for,
the worldliness of life becomes like quicksand that sucks you into a spiritual vacuum.
When that happens, we live less and less; we merely stay alive.- Shian (TheDailyEnlightenment@yahoogroups.com ( Read more... )

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"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key."- Elizabeth Wurtzel ( Read more... )

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"When you are depressed, the past and the future are absorbed entirely by the present, as in the world of a three-year-old. You can neither remember feeling better nor imagine that you will feel better. Being upset, even profoundly upset, is a temporal experience, whereas depression is ( Read more... )