Quote of the day

[boot_the_grime]

"I fixated on this notion that our ideas of romantic love are created for us by the society around us, and then escape from that is grown-up love, is marriage, is mature love, to escape the ideals of love that we’re supposed to follow. " - Joss Whedon in the latest interview, talking about his new adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.

Comments

[blackfrancine]

Gah! This makes me so happy! It sounds so much like how I read BtVS!

[moscow_watcher]

I wonder if these thoughts will find way into his comics.

[boot_the_grime]

I think they already did, with the way that Bangel and Spuffy were contrasted in the Last Gleaming arc, and the entire Twilight arc was lambasting and satirizing some of the most ridiculous ideas about romantic love that our culture has built.