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Aug. 20th, 2007 06:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI've been watching songvids from Buffy and Angel, and it's just reminding me how powerful those stories are. Half the time I'll be peering through fuzzy or stripy tiny little files (because they're old vids and they don't look right no more) but the stories are still so clear. One or two shots and the whole thing just floods back in heartbreaking detail.
... I'd almost managed to forget how many characters end up dead. There's a *lot* of those.
(I think maybe I discover a reason I'm in more of a Doctor Who mood lately - lots and lots of dead dudes, but only people we just met. Except for Adric. I can handle that one. I think in general I have had enough of death.)
And not just the deaths, their whole story arc. It's like watching them fall and knowing it's going to hurt when the ground hits. Only then they hit a lot of stuff on the way down, so it's more like finding there's always more down.
I want to pick up the whole lot of them and hug them and just hand them a nice safe job they can achieve and live with and stuff.
Buffy was marginally less depressing, but even so... Everyone went through hell.
Which, you know, the point.
But I'll be over here, watching my kids show... About a guy who loses his entire planet and doesn't even have a species any more and is going to outlive everyone ever and loses everyone he loves.
Dear god, there's a shortage of cheerful once you start looking at this hero stuff.
Maybe to watch fraggles? Fraggles have much less bad stuff happen to them. I think.
*sigh*
I guess the difference between the kids show and the adult one is generally on the kids show the good guys win eventually. On the other one there may or may not *be* good guys, let alone that winning thing.
Me want kids show now pls.
... I'd almost managed to forget how many characters end up dead. There's a *lot* of those.
(I think maybe I discover a reason I'm in more of a Doctor Who mood lately - lots and lots of dead dudes, but only people we just met. Except for Adric. I can handle that one. I think in general I have had enough of death.)
And not just the deaths, their whole story arc. It's like watching them fall and knowing it's going to hurt when the ground hits. Only then they hit a lot of stuff on the way down, so it's more like finding there's always more down.
I want to pick up the whole lot of them and hug them and just hand them a nice safe job they can achieve and live with and stuff.
Buffy was marginally less depressing, but even so... Everyone went through hell.
Which, you know, the point.
But I'll be over here, watching my kids show... About a guy who loses his entire planet and doesn't even have a species any more and is going to outlive everyone ever and loses everyone he loves.
Dear god, there's a shortage of cheerful once you start looking at this hero stuff.
Maybe to watch fraggles? Fraggles have much less bad stuff happen to them. I think.
*sigh*
I guess the difference between the kids show and the adult one is generally on the kids show the good guys win eventually. On the other one there may or may not *be* good guys, let alone that winning thing.
Me want kids show now pls.