Slayed.
The Buffy finale was satisfying in every way it should have been.
I felt full. Complete. It was exactly where that show should have gone. She's been grumbling for seven years about her role in the world, and why she has to bear it alone. And we're all so stupid, SO stupid, to not have seen this coming. But I love being stupid. You get too cynical about things and you can't enjoy anything the way it's meant to be enjoyed.
I know there's a lot of grousing in the Buffy fandom about the unresolved relationships.
They're not unresolved at all. They actually got a pretty intense amount of closure. You couldn't get more without going full-frontal.
"Shoulder to shoulder. I'm yours."
"No you don't. But thanks for saying it."
That's called closure.
That's all we need.
People who think the romance should have been more of a focus, or things needed to be more clearly laid out, remind me of the ones who say they read HP for the things it's actually about - action, heroism, the ultimate fight between good and evil - and then also think romance has to be central.
You can't have it both ways. You can have a harlequin plot that revolves around sex, or you can have a tale of epic proportions that gently touches upon the future, ties up loose ends, gives a powerful message about good triumphing - you can have a show stay true to what it's *about*. Not what it found itself dealing with along the way.
The Buffy finale was satisfying in every way it should have been.
I felt full. Complete. It was exactly where that show should have gone. She's been grumbling for seven years about her role in the world, and why she has to bear it alone. And we're all so stupid, SO stupid, to not have seen this coming. But I love being stupid. You get too cynical about things and you can't enjoy anything the way it's meant to be enjoyed.
I know there's a lot of grousing in the Buffy fandom about the unresolved relationships.
They're not unresolved at all. They actually got a pretty intense amount of closure. You couldn't get more without going full-frontal.
"Shoulder to shoulder. I'm yours."
"No you don't. But thanks for saying it."
That's called closure.
That's all we need.
People who think the romance should have been more of a focus, or things needed to be more clearly laid out, remind me of the ones who say they read HP for the things it's actually about - action, heroism, the ultimate fight between good and evil - and then also think romance has to be central.
You can't have it both ways. You can have a harlequin plot that revolves around sex, or you can have a tale of epic proportions that gently touches upon the future, ties up loose ends, gives a powerful message about good triumphing - you can have a show stay true to what it's *about*. Not what it found itself dealing with along the way.
The Buffy finale was satisfying in every way it should have been.