Still working on Buffy/Musicals thread...
Things are going much slower than I had hoped with this article I'm writing on Buffy and Musicals. If you haven't yet seen or responded to my recent survey, please do. In particular, I'm curious to hear responses from heptadecagram, kdsorceress, werewulf, and speedlime, mainly because I know they're fans of both musicals and Buffy, and/or we may have discussed it (or similar) in the past
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OK, filled it out.
DHS-AB was fun. But I enjoyed it more from the point of view of "they had fun making this" rather than "I have fun watching this". The songs were really good, I liked them. Because it's Whedon, you know that any chance at relationship has to die. And in its own way, I found it to be an incredibly upbeat ending.
I don't consider myself a geek. I don't consume the same sorts of media that geeks do, so I don't have the same social vocabulary that they do. Occasionally I'll consume some, but it's like visited a foreign country.
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"I don't consume the same sorts of media that geeks do, so I don't have the same social vocabulary that they do."
Please elaborate. What "sorts of media" are you referring to?
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Well, the protagonist got everything he needed! He defeated Captain Hammer, got in with the League of Evil, and became a first-class villain. His "cost" was the death of someone he lusted after. But he never approached her, she didn't reciprocate his feelings, and they definitely didn't share any life goals. I think casting it as "he got everything he wanted, but it cost him his love" is simplifying the fact that it was a one-sided infatuation.
Well, I'm not big on fiction novels. I don't watch a lot of TV or movies. Because of that, when geeks say something like "ex-ter-min-ate!" or "frell", I don't get it. But those sorts of in-group bits of vocabulary are what establish you as inside or outside of the group.
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I don't get those references either... the first one's vaguely familiar, but I can't place it. Hmm... so do you think "geek" is more defined by the movies, tv, and books people like?
I thought that might be what you meant by uplifting, and I can see that, but I totally disagree about it being a one-sided infatuation. I think they shared the life goal of wanting to see some change and make a difference in the world, but they went about it in different ways. I also absolutely think they had a connection. They had a friendship, and she even seemed interested in him romantically (they almost kiss in the laundromat), and she was clearly not that into Capt. Hammer, but they never really had a chance, or perhaps the nerve, to really pursue it.
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And I thought Dr. Horrible was MUCH stronger a musical than OMWF
And yeah, I'm a geek, anyone who's an intense fan of anything pretty much is by definition.
Howls....
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